Cemetery: Linn Burial Ground
Other:
Sign: No
Street: Tom McNeff Farms
City: Mount Sterling, about 4 miles south west
Township: Buckhorn Township
County: Brown County
State: Illinois
Nation: United States
Zip:
lat_ns: N
lat_h:
lat_mmss:
long_ew: E
long_h:
long_mmss:
Status: Abandoned
Size: Medium
Directions:
Type: Road-public
Location: Rural
Terrain: Level
Watersource: Yes
Features: trees, brush
Property: Private
Access: Permission-required
Enclosure: Fence-Broken
Gate: None
Established: unknown
Gravestones: 33
Oldest: 1849
Newest: May 1912
Removed: Unknown
Relocated: No
Repairs: Yes
Methods: Other
Restoration: Yes
Association: Unsure
Records: Yes
Inventory: Unsure
Availability: Schuyler and Brown County Genealgoy Society
Landscaping: Yes
Paths: Yes
Trees: Yes4
Crypts: No
Fencing: No
Brickwork: No
Ironwork: No
Sculpture: No
Fountains: No
Roads: No
Buildings: No
Cement: Yes
Granite: No
Marble: No
Native: Unsure
Slate: Yes
Others: Unsure
Wood: No
Materials: Yes
Architectural: No
Angels: No
Draperies: No
Fraternal: No
Hands: Yes
Lambs: No
Monograms: No
Plants: No
Photos: No
Religious: No
Scrollwork: No
Urns: No
Carvings: Yes
Condition: Cemetery neglected
Unmarked: Yes
Broken: Yes
Toppled: Yes
Disintegrating: Yes
Buried: Yes
Weather: Yes
Pollution: No
Vandalized: No
Report: Yes
VA1:
VA2:
VA3:
VA4:
VA5:
Overgrowth:
Overgrowth1:
Overgrowth2:
Overgrowth3:
Overgrowth4: Gravestones-Damaging
GroundCover: Yes
Moss: Yes
Vines: Yes
Drainage: Good
Problem1:
Problem2:
Owner: Private
Use: Agricultural
Bordering: Agricultural
Change: Same
Reason: Agriculture
Visited: Rarely
Archeology: Unknown
Habitat: Unknown
Contacted: no one

Surnames:

Linn, Boen aka Bowen, Johnson, Long, Stinson, Myers, Shankland, Baker, Stoops, Bullard, Upchurch

Other Information:

I visited this Family grave site in October 2002. It has been a life long goal of mine to be able to get back and actually set foot on the ground the my ancestors once owned and where my family lived before heading out west to Oregon. Upon viewing the cemetery, I felt it is of much importance to my family to restore that cemetery. The plan is to make the proper agreements to have the time to restore this Cemetery to one of one my family can be proud to have in our heritage. The plan is to come back next year, 2004 to complete this feat.

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Name: Rusty Brown
Email: R_ustyswoodart@aol.com
Date: May 21, 2003