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Beauchamp Cemetery |
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Beauchamp Cemetery, Concord-Meredosia Township
Morgan
County Illinois
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Beauchamp Cemetery |
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Cemetery transcription by members of the Jacksonville
Area
Genealogical and Historical Society
Beauchamp (pronounced Beechum) Cemetery is about 31/2 miles
east
of the Illinois River bridge at Meredosia, and is high on the southeast
slope of a large bluff. The cemetery is difficult to reach and
practically
impossible to see until a person is standing in it as the dense brush
hides
the tombstones, only two of which remain standing. A large tree has
fallen
across the small burial area. The cemetery has a broken down wire fence
separating it from a nearby field. When a bulldozer was being used in
the
field at the bottom of the bluff, the operator reportedly disturbed
some
burials there, evidently part of Beauchamp Cemetery. The cemetery is
north
of Coon run waterway and Spunky Ridge Road and about 1/4 mile east of
Illinois
Route 104. Beauchamp Cemetery is about 1/2 mile north of Hodges
Cemetery
(also known as Muntman Cemetery and as Sycamore Grove Cemetery). Legal
description of Beauchamp Cemetery would place it in the southwest
quarter
of the southwest quarter of Section 19 in township 16 N Range 12 W.
While
standing in Beauchamp Cemetery it is possible to see the Chambersburg
water
tower, approximately nine miles away. It is possible to see parts of
Morgan,
Pike and Brown counties from Beauchamp Cemetery.
Words in brackets [ ] or parenthesis ( )are not on
stone.
| Name | Birth | Death | Other or Notes | Veteran? | Donated By | Obit? |
| Beauchamp, Ada Nora | 5 Mo 19 Da | 12 Mar 1871 | Dau of G.N. & E.A. Beauchamp | |||
| Beauchamp, Albert | 20 Aug 1878 | 25 Feb 1879 | Son of E.H. & E.F. Beauchamp This small obelisk is still standing. |
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| Beauchamp, ? | 6 Yr 10 Mo 14 Da | 5 Aug 1868 | Son of G.N. & E.A. Beauchamp In 1878 G.N. Beauchamp was a member of the Board of Education at Meredosia. |
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| H. I. B. | Footstone | |||||
| Breidenstein, Susanna | 57 Yr 2 Mo 7 Da | 10 May 1865 | Wife of Christian Breidenstein | |||
| Burrus, Elizabeth M. | 13 July 1857 | 11 Mar 1869 | Dau of J. & E.L. Burrus | |||
| Lake, Lindsay | 63 Yr 3 Mo 12 Da | 19 Aug 1876 | See pages 23 and 122 of "Atlas Map of Morgan County, Illinois, 1872" and page 758 of "History of Morgan County, Illinois, 1878" for information about Lindsay Lake. |
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| Lake, Liney | 1 Yr 3 Mo 8 Da | 27 Apr 1874 | Our Baby | |||
| Lake, Susan | Wife of Lindsay Lake Susan Bond was the seventh and last wife of Lindsay Lake. No birth or death dates are given for her on the same large tombstone that has the names of Lindsay and Liney also. The white obelisk is toppled but is not broken. |
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| Lake, Margaret A. | 22 Aug 1 | Dau of ___. And L. Lake This probably was a daughter of Lindsay Lake and his sixth wife, Lizzie Bigelow Lake. |
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| Footstone: Last initial "M", but a tree is growing too close to it and it is impossible to read the other letters. |
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| Moon, Lyman C. | 37 Yr 10 Mo 4 Da | 14 Oct 1870 | ||||
| Smith, Edward | Co. 101st Illinois Infantry Regiment This military stone is still standing. Edward Smith enlisted Aug. 12, 1862. He was absent and sick at the mustering out of the regiment. |
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| Smith, Emily N. | 1 Yr 7 Mo 27 Da | 24 Oct 1867 | Dau of G.W. & M.A. Smith | |||
| Walker, Margaret R. | 11 Mo 3 Da | 21 June 1861 | Dau of W.J. & H. Walker |
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