Berkey Cemetery, Jacksonville Township Morgan County Illinois




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Berkey Cemetery
Morgan County Illinois
Jacksonville Township T15N R10W 3rdPM
City of Jacksonville, Section 17

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Cemetery transcription by members of the Jacksonville Area Genealogical and Historical Society


Berkey (perhaps misspelled) was situated on the southwest corner of North Church and West Walnut streets in Jacksonville. Walter Vernon Opperman, who lived in the neighborhood as a child and young man, remembers playing amongst the tombstones. When the house at 987 North Church was built, it is reported that a coffin was found while digging the basement. During the late 1950s and until about 1972 the site of the cemetery was a tangle of brush around what appeared to be a brick foundation. About 1972 the area was bulldozed and is in 1974 a flat, grassy, empty lot, with many remnants of broken stones and concrete scattered.





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