Date: May
30, 2001
Cemetery: Fike
Established:
Street: Feusser Rd., near Emig Rd.
Type: Road-public
City: Mascoutah
Township: Mascoutah
County: St. Clair
State: IL
Nation: USA
Zip:
Nearby: Just east of intersection with Emig Rd., on right, in
stand of trees between two fields
Location: Rural-agricultural
Land: Flat
Water: No
Features: Trees, lily-like shrubs
Sign: No
Land Type: Private
Access: Permission-required
Enclosure: None
Gate: None
Status: Abandoned
Size: Small
Unmarked graves: Yes
Gravestones: At least twelve
Broken gravestones: Yes
Toppled gravestones: Yes
Buried gravestones: Unsure
Removed Gravestones: Unknown
Weather problems: Yes
Pollution problems: Unknown
Oldest grave:
Newest grave:
Association: No
Records: No
Inventory: No
Records location:
Condition: Cemetery poorly maintained
Vandalized:
Overgrowth: Problem-Access
Vegetation: Trees
Vegetation: Ground-Cover
Vegetation: Vines
Drainage:
Problem: Apathy
Problem: Disintegrating Headstones
Work Status: No work started as of yet
Owner: Unknown
Use:
Bordering: Agricultural
Change: Unknown
Reason:
Visited: Rarely
Archeology: Unknown
Contacted:
Other Information
On first inspection, two small flat stones were
observed, toppled and weathered, to the left of a white soapstone
plinth, toppled, with the word "FIKE" and an engraving clear.
On the second trip, the FIKE stone was still easy to see, but the two
smaller stones could not be found in the undergrowth. I surveyed nine
stones that were mostly readable and found two others that were broken
and undecipherable. Must be surveyed during the fall, winter months when
the vegetation is sparse.
Submitted by:
name: Donnell Wisniewski
Email: Maestrowz@aol.com
|
|
