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Nergenah Cemetery |
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Nergenah Cemetery |
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Cemetery transcription by members of the Jacksonville
Area
Genealogical and Historical Society
Nergenah Cemetery is nearly five miles east of the Illinois
River
bridge at Meredosia. The brush, fenced cemetery is about ¼ mile
north of Spunky Ridge Road and about ¼ mile south of Coon run
waterway.
From the road it is impossible to determine that a cemetery occupies
the
50 feet by 50 feet area. No lane leads to the cemetery which is in the
southeast quarter of Section 20 in Township 16 N Range 12 W. It is
known
by neighborhood residents that a cemetery of unknown name exists in a
pasture
about ¼ east of Nergenah Cemetery. Although no tombstones mark
the
spot a fence once surrounded the tiny area on the southwest edge of
Section
21.
* = No Stone Found
** = Soldier
| Name | Birth | Death | Other or Notes | Veteran? | Donated By | Obit? |
| Murphy, Nancy Nergenah | 20 Sept 1864 | 1 Aug 1940 | (No tombstone marks this woman's grave, but there is a remnant of a funeral home's metal marker protruding from the ground. Nancy was a daughter of German born Henry Nergenah and Kentucky born Susan Childers Nergenah. At the time of her death, Nancy was survived by her husband, David Murphy, and two sisters, Miss Lillian Nergenah and Mrs. Riney Steinberg, all of the Meredosia area. David Murphy is buried in Oakland Cemetery at Meredosia.) |
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| Murphy, Henry J. 1836 - 1914 | 1836 | 1914 | (His death certificate in the court house at Jacksonville shows he died Oct. 10, 1914. His obituary did not appear in the Jacksonville Journal.) |
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| Murphy, Susan F. Died 1904 | 1904 | His Wife (w/o Henry J.) (The tombstone does not give the year of her birth. Her death certificate is not recorded at the court house in Jacksonville.) |
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| Thompson, Nancie | 65 years 11 months 4 days | Oct. 1, 1874 | Departed this life Oct. 1, 1874 aged 65 years 11 months 4 days (Her obituary did not appear in the Jacksonville Journal.) |
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