Houston Cemetery, Concord-Meredosia
Township
Morgan
County Illinois
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Houston Cemetery |
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Cemetery transcription by members of the Jacksonville
Area
Genealogical and Historical Society
Houston Cemetery consists of a single known
grave
in a cluster of trees that is surrounded by a cultivated field. Until
the
1950s the area, atop an Illinois River Valley bluff, was all
timberland.
The tombstone is flat on the ground and broken into three pieces but it
is very legible. The initialed foot stone is still standing. The
gravesite
is about ½ mile east of Heffner Cemetery. Houston Cemetery is
about
four miles northwest of Concord and about 1½ miles south of the
Morgan and Cass county line. Legal description of the site is in the
northwest
quarter of Section 1 in Township 16 N Range 12 W. The burial site
cannot
be seen from the nearest roadway and the lane leading to the cultivated
field disappears before the gravesite is reached. The compilers are
indebted
to Mrs. Charles Hendricker who took them to the site of the burial.
(Starret B. Houston's marriage license is not recorded in the
Morgan
County Clerk's office. However, Deed Book SS, page 171, shows that
Starrett
B. Houston sold land in Morgan and Cass counties to William Houston on
March 29, 1861. In Deed Book WW, pages 342-344, is copied a decree
rendered
at the August, 1863, term of the Cass County Circuit Court. The decree
empowered Hazen Skinner, administrator of the estate of Starrett B.
Houston,
to settle the estate. Skinner sold a portion of Houston's land for $8
per
acre, for a total of $368. The remainder of the land went to Mary Ellen
Houston, widow of Starrett B. Houston, as her dower interest in his
estate.
The tracts of land mentioned in the court decree include the burial
site
of Starrett .
Words in brackets [ ] or parenthesis ( )are not on
stone.
Name | Birth | Death | Other or Notes | Veteran? | Donated By | Obit? |
Houston, Starrett B. | 29yr | 1 Aug 1861 |
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