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Joy Cemetery |
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Joy Cemetery, Jacksonville-Markham
Township
Morgan
County Illinois
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Joy Cemetery |
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Cemetery transcription by members of the Jacksonville
Area
Genealogical and Historical Society
This cemetery no longer exists but was in the northwest
quarter
of Section 4 of Township 15 N Range 11 W, about seven miles northwest
of
Jacksonville on what is commonly known as Joy Prairie. Much information
about the Joy family can be found by referring to the several Morgan
County
history books that have been published.
However, a news item published on page 12 of the Jacksonville Courier
of
Thursday, Aug. 21, 1930 is most unlikely to be found even by the most
diligent
researcher.
John Power of the Jacksonville Journal-Courier news staff found the
news
item in 1980 and it appeared in part as follows:
EIGHTEEN BODIES MOVED FROM JOY CEMETERY HERE. Bury Remains Taken From
Abandoned
Family Plot to Diamond Grove - - Take Three to Winchester. Eighteen
bodies
were interred yesterday in thirteen graves in Diamond Grove cemetery
having
been removed from the old Joy cemetery on the Lyman F. Joy farm
northwest
of the city. The remains were disinterred Tuesday and brought to
Diamond
Grove and placed in the mausoleum overnight. Three bodies were removed
to Winchester cemetery. The old cemetery, where the first body was
buried
in 1839 and the last in 1904, is being abandoned. A large stone and
small
individual markers will mark the family plot in Diamond Grove. Some of
the bodies were in a good state of preservation, while others had to be
moved most carefully." The reburials are now in a large grouping in
Section L of Diamond Grove Cemetery, just east of the large area used
for
burials of residents of the Illinois (now Barton W. Stone) Christian
Home.
Modern tombstones replace the markers that were in the original Joy
Cemetery.
The list of burials given here is reconstructed by Robert W. Dalton
from
the August 21, 1930 Jacksonville Courier news story, the tombstones in
Diamond Grove Cemetery and other available sources.
** used to denote a soldier.
Words in brackets [ ] or parenthesis ( )are not on
stone.
| Name | Birth | Death | Other or Notes | Veteran? | Donated By | Obit? |
| Dunbaugh, Clara | 1821 | 1862 | ||||
| Dunbaugh, Wallace | 1851 | 1853 | ||||
| Joy, Angelica (Haseltine) | 9 Apr 1892 | Obit | ||||
| Joy, Arthur Bigger | 12 Apr 1852 | Twin of Lyman F. & Angelica Joy | ||||
| Joy, Clarence | Infant Son of John Pickering & Judith P. Joy | |||||
| Joy, Henry | 1839 | (He is buried beside John Pickering Joy and Judith P. Batcheldor Joy in Diamond Grove Cemetery, Jacksonville.) |
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| Joy, James |
20 July 1878 | (His name was not among those listed as being removed from Joy Cemetery to Diamond Grove Cemetery. However, the Jacksonville Journal of Wednesday, July 24, 1878 carried a news story headlined "A Worthy Young Man Drowned." It tells of the drowning of James Joy in the Neosho River at Humboldt, Kansas, and of his remains being returned to Morgan County. About 35 years of age, he was the oldest son of Mrs. Charles Joy of Joy Prairie. His wife, a sister of Mrs. George Daniels, died about three years before the drowning of James. He later married a woman at Humboldt. The Jacksonville Journal of Thursday, July 25, 1878 told of Charles F. Joy, Esq., coming from St. Louis to attend the funeral of his brother, James Joy. The same newspaper said the remains of James Joy were conveyed to Joy Cemetery, a private cemetery dedicated to the several families of Joy. Charles F. Joy, Esq., was mentioned in the Jacksonville Journal of Tuesday, Dec. 21, 1880. A news story shows that he once again at Joy Prairie, this time to bury his wife of a little over a year, Bell Ordway Joy, who had died at St. Louis on Dec. 19, 1880. She was a daughter of Rev. Jarius Ordway of Salem, Conn.) |
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| Joy, Jane (Bigger) | 1823 | 1904 | (She was born 6 Sept 1823, daughter of Robert & Elizabeth Bigger. Jane became the second wife of John Pickering Joy at Beardstown on Aug. 17, 1853.) |
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| Joy, John Pickering | 17 May 1806 | 18 Feb 1879 | History of 1878 | Obit | ||
| Joy, John Pickering | 12 Apr 1852 | Twin son of Lyman Frederick & Angelica H. Joy | ||||
| Joy, Judith P. (Batchelder) | 14 Aug 1805 | 9 Jan 1849 | (Page 709 of "History of Morgan County, Ill., 1878" shows that Judith P. Batcheldor married John P. Joy in New Hampshire. She is buried beside John P. Joy in Jacksonville's Diamond Grove Cem.) |
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| Joy, Susan E. | 1810 | 1852 | (Susan is buried in a family grouping with Jane B., Walter and Clarence Joy in Diamond Grove Cemetery.) |
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| Joy, Walter |
Infant Son of John Pickering & Judith P. Joy | |||||
| Joy, Walter Crafts | 1869 | 1889 | (He was a son of Lyman F. & Angelica Hazeltine Joy.) | |||
| Kirkpatrick, Beryl | Child of H.B. Kirkpatrick | |||||
| Kirkpatrick, Dean | Child of H.B. Kirkpatrick | |||||
| Kirkpatrick, Miss | Sister of H.B. Kirkpatrick (The following paragraph was published in the Jacksonville Courier of Thursday, August 21, 1930, regarding the removal of the bodies from the Joy Cemetery. "The three bodies which were removed to Winchester were members of the H.B. Kirkpatrick family and been buried forty years. They were the remains of Beryl and Dean Kirkpatrick, children of H.B. Kirkpatrick, and his sister, Miss Kirkpatrick. These bodies were buried this week in the Winchester cemetery, where other members of the family lie.) |
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| Parsons, Sarah B. | 5 Sept 1868 | |||||
| Parsons, Sarah Lizzie | 1861 | Dau of Sarah B. Parsons | ||||
| Swan, Charlotte | 2 Dec 1850 | Infant Dau of Mariah L. Swan | ||||
| Swan, Helen | 15 Oct 1845 | Infant Dau of Mariah L. Swan | ||||
| Swan, Mariah L. | 26 Aug 1852 |
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