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Carter Cemetery |
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Carter Cemetery, Lynnville Township
Morgan
County Illinois
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Carter Cemetery |
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Cemetery transcription by members of the Jacksonville
Area
Genealogical and Historical Society
This tiny family cemetery is located in a timbered area
nearly
1½
miles southeast of Lynnville. No road or path leads to the burials,
which
are less than ½ mile north of the Morgan-Scott county line.
Legal
description of the cemetery site is in the northeast quarter of the
southeast
quarter of Section 8 in township 14 N Range 11 W. The tombstones, none
of which are standing, are scattered over an area of about 20 feet
square.
The area is densely covered with thorn trees and wild berry bushes. In
addition to the tombstones listed below, there are several remnants
with
partial inscriptions. The compilers are grateful to Mr. Clifford
Thaxton
of Jacksonville who discovered the cemetery while hunting mushrooms and
who served as guide to the site, and to landowners Mr. & Mrs. Jack
McNeely, who granted permission to visit the cemetery.
Words in brackets [ ] or parenthesis ( )are not on
stone.
| Name | Birth | Death | Other or Notes | Veteran? | Donated By | Obit? |
| Carter, John | 56 Yr | 3 Oct 1847 | (This John Carter was born in West Virginia and came to Morgan County in the spring of 1827, locating on a farm near Lynnville where he spent the remainder of his life.) |
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| Carter, Nancy | 56 Yr | July 1849 | Wife of J. Carter (This tombstone is broken into several pieces.) |
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| Carter, Nancy | 25 Yr 11 Mo 5 Da | 29 Jan 1857 | Wife of John Carter (This Nancy Carter was the first wife of John Carter who was the second son of John and Nancy Carter. This Nancy Carter's husband was born in West Virginia on Sept. 20, 1822. In 1851 he formed a co-partnership in a mercantile business in Lynnville. In 1866 he moved to Jacksonville and went into the drug and hardware business on the public square, at the corner of West State Street.) |
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| Carter, Mary A. | 2 Yr | Sept 1851 | Dau of J. & N. Carter | |||
| Foot Stone: J.H.C. |
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