Date: 11/28/00
Cemetery: Hunter Cemetery aka Cottage Grove
Cemetery
Street: 17649 - 300 Ave North
City: Tiskilwa
Township: Wheatland
County: Bureau
State: IL
Nation: USA
Zip: 61368
Nearby:
Land Type: Private
Status: Abandoned
Accessible: Yes
Unmarked graves: Yes
Graves within: 80+
Oldest grave: 1848
Newest grave: 1904
Records: No
Inventory: Unsure
Records location: A partial reading done in
1984 by unknown individual. That reading is
located at the Bureau County Genealogical Library,
Princeton, IL
Owner: Property Owner: Alan Read -- currently
being restored by Jim & Mikki Judge
Condition: Cemetery destroyed
Vandalism
Overgrown-trees
Overgrown-ground cover
Overgrown-vines
Broken Headstones
Buried Headstones
Disintegrating Headstones
Fallen Headstones
Previous contacts: Governor George Ryan,
Congressman Leach, Senator's Fitzgerald and Durbin,
Daniel Hynes, Bureau County Board of Supervisors,
Bureau County Republican Newspaper, Wheatland Township
Supervisors, Princeton, IL BSA, with little or no
response, and no assistance received from any of these
people or organizations.
Work Status: Work underway - Minor improvements
made
Support Contacts
The Hunter Cemetery
Restoration Trust has been established by the
DeMaranville Family who has 16 (that we know of)
ancestors buried at Hunter Cemetery. Jim & Mikki
Judge, along with one other family member have worked
the entire summer of the year 2000 clearing this .6
acre cemetery, and locating gravestones. There is
still some clearing of the cemetery to be done in the
spring of 2001 before we start a full search of the
area for buried gravestones, and begin the process of
restoring the stones and resetting them. This cemetery
was desecrated in the 1960s by the former landowner,
who razed the stones and started to bury them to gain
additional farmland. When the neighbors heard about
this, they stopped him; but the cemetery has been left
since then in this condition, and allowed to be
overgrown by pucker brush, weeds, and dead and fallen
trees. Hunter Cemetery was located in May, 2000 by Jim
& Mikki Judge while looking for the gravesite of
Mikki's great great grandparents, Nehemiah & Phebe.
Jim & Mikki Judge can be reached through their
email address: jjudge2127@aol.com and donations can be
made to the Hunter Cemetery Restoration Trust, P. O.
Box 38, Buffalo, IA 52728 (319)381-3238.
Submitted by /
Contact for additional Information:
name: Mikki
& Jim Judge
Email: jjudge2127@aol.com
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