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Cemetery: Oliver Cemetery

Other:

Sign: No

Street: Old Route 146 (Meyers Farm)

City: Vienna, Il. 62995 (about 3 miles from town)

Township: Bloonfield

County: Johnson County

State: Illinois

Nation: United States

Zip: 62995

Status: Abandoned

Size: Large

Directions: road to Cemetery has been allowed to grow up in trees.

Type: Road-public

Location: Rural

Terrain: Level

Watersource: No

Features: grown up with trees and underbrush, weeds and grass

Property: Private

Access: Permission-required

Enclosure: None

Gate: None

Established: 1800's

Gravestones: 175/200

Oldest: 1840

Newest: 1928

Removed: Unknown

Relocated: No

Repairs: No

Methods: Other

Restoration: Yes

Association: Yes

Records: No

Inventory: No

Availability:

Landscaping: No

Paths: No

Trees: Yes2

Crypts: No

Fencing: No

Brickwork: No

Ironwork: Yes

Sculpture: No

Fountains: No

Roads: No

Buildings: No

Cement: Unsure

Granite: Yes

Marble: Yes

Native: Yes

Slate: Unsure

Others: Unsure

Wood: No

Materials: Unsure

Architectural: Unsure

Angels: Unsure

Draperies: Unsure

Fraternal: Unsure

Hands: Yes

Lambs: Unsure

Monograms: Yes

Plants: No

Photos: No

Religious: Unsure

Scrollwork: Yes

Urns: No

Carvings: Yes

Condition: Cemetery in danger of destruction

Unmarked: Yes

Broken: Yes

Toppled: Yes

Disintegrating: Yes

Buried: Yes

Weather: Unknown

Pollution: Yes

Vandalized: Yes

Report: No

VA: Gravestones-Overturned

Overgrowth: Graves-Disturbing

Overgrowth: Gravestones-Disturbing

Overgrowth: Gravestones-Damaging

GroundCover: Yes

Moss:

Vines: Yes

Drainage: Good

Problem: Apathy

Owner: Unknown

Use: Agricultural

Bordering: Agricultural

Change: Same

Reason: Roads

Visited: Occasionally

Archeology: Unknown

Habitat: Unknown

Contacted: County & State Government asking for help with road & clearing

Surnames:

Ausbrooks, Beggs, Benson, Bratton, Bridges, Brower, Cooper, Daniels, Elkins, Fain, Finney, Fowler, Glassford, Gore, Gray, Grisson, Hacker , Hester, Hughs, Jackson, Jobe, Jones, McCall, McKee, Morris, Oliver, Overton, Pearce, Ragains, Rebman, Roberts, Rogers, Simpson, Slack, Stunton, Toller, Turley, Williams, Worley       

Other Information:

There is 6 or 7 Civil War veterans, State Representative, State Senator, Early Christian Church Pastor, Early Baptist Church Pastor (My great grandfather) started about 20 churches.

Support:

Floyd Stout, 704 Hess Street, Vienna, Il. 62995

phone 618-658-9267 Fax 618-658-9490

or

Jim Gray , Vienna, Il 62995

 

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name: Floyd Stout
Email: f_sks@earthlink.net
Date: 7-30-2002

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