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Crawford-Hatfield Cemetery |
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Crawford-Hatfield Cemetery, Chapin-Bethel
Township
Morgan
County Illinois
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Crawford-Hatfield Cemetery |
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Cemetery transcription by members of the Jacksonville
Area
Genealogical and Historical Society
Words in brackets [ ] or parenthesis ( )are not on stone.
The only known visible relic of this
abandoned
cemetery
is a broken Hatfield tombstone that was plowed up about 1972 by a
youth,
Roger Nergenah. For some time the stone was leaned against a tree which
has since been removed. In 1977 this tombstone is atop a well platform
in Concord, at the residence of Rev. Don Hatfield. Very little is known
about the cemetery but Mrs. Reginald (Verna) Nergenah recalls that the
cemetery was once in a wooded area in the northeast quarter of Section
5 in Township 15 N Range 12 W. The site is on the south side of
Illinois
Route 104 and is about 11/4 miles northwest of Bethel. A search of real
estate transactions failed to reveal any mention of the burial ground,
but Samuel Hatfield and his wife, Minerva, both alive on Sept. 29,
1837,
once owned the tract of land. Other Hatfields closely associated with
the
area were William B., alive on April 16, 1843, and Nathan Hatfield who
died before Nov. 10, 1847.
| Name | Birth | Death | Other or Notes | Veteran? | Donated By | Obit? |
| Crawford, David | 30 Mar 1882 | Obit | ||||
| Hatfield, | 1 Yr 1 Mo 3 Da | 8 Ag 1858 | Daughter of R. and E.J. Hatfield (No mention of this child's death appeared in the Jacksonville Sentinel.) |
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