Date: 10/24/00
Cemetery: Bachelor's Grove
Street: 143rd and midlothian turnpike
City: Bremen Township
County: Cook
State: Illinois
Nation: United States
Zip: unknown
Nearby: it is on a closed road by a tower across from the rubio
woods preserve parking lot.
Land Type: Public
Status: Abandoned
Accessible: Yes
Unmarked graves: Yes
Graves within: 150
Oldest grave: 1844
Newest grave: 1989
Records: Unsure
Inventory: Unsure
Records location:
Owner:
Condition: Cemetery in danger of destruction
Encroachment
Removed Headstones
Overgrown-ground cover
Apathy
Broken Headstones
Buried Headstones
Disintegrating Headstones
Fallen Headstones
Previous contacts: We are currently organizing an effort to
find answers. At the moment the cemetery is a sore subject with
all officials involved. They want it to disappear. This is
an emergency! I have just learned that there are approx. 150 people
buried in this one acre sight that is about to be swallowed by water.
We know that there are only about 20 headstones left though. Many are
to be found on the bottom of the lagoon behind it. The last body was
buried in 1965. The last ashes were buried in 1989.
Work Status: Planning stages
Additional Information: Bachelor's
Grove Restoration Project
I wanted to let you know that the Restoration has a new web address
at www.bachelorsgrove.org. Things are moving along slowly yet we have
accomplished quite a bit of research on those buried at the cemetery.
Sadly most records are missing and the families are proving difficult
to contact. We are hoping that more volunteers will come forward soon.
A new small sign will also be placed at the cemetery in the coming
weeks until the restoration is fully underway.
Submitted by / Contact for additional Information:
name: David Berault
Email: info@motrec.com
