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Weeks Cemetery |
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Transcription by members of the Jacksonville Area
Genealogical
and Historical Society
Weeks Cemetery is atop the bluffs directly east of Meredosia,
on
a line with Illinois Route 104. This highway makes an abrupt turn
southward
at the bottom of the same bluff on which Weeks Cemetery is located. The
cemetery cannot be seen from the highway because the tombstones are
slightly
below the crest of the bluff, on the opposite side from the highway.
Weeks
Cemetery is perched on an exceptionally steep bluff behind some farm
buildings
and above an artificial spring fed pond. The cemetery is not fenced and
is free of brush. It does have some trees. While standing in the
cemetery
it is possible to see the Chambersburg tower and the village of
Meredosia,
as well as parts of Morgan, Pike, Brown and Cass Counties. The cemetery
is located in the northern half of Section 19 of Township 16 N Range 12
W and is three miles east of Meredosia.
Words in brackets [ ] or parenthesis ( )are not on
stone.
| Name | Birth | Death | Other or Notes | Veteran? | Donated By | Obit? |
| Bryant, Alpheus | 1 Apr 1814 | 29 Mar 1889 | Age 74 Yr 11 Mo 13 Da (Alpheus Bryant's tombstone shows he was born April 11, 1814, but his biography on page 754 of "History of Morgan County, Illinois, 1878" shows he was born April 11, 1812 in Middlebury, Addison County, Vermont. He gave up farming there about 1847 and went to Worcester, Massachusetts, where he engaged in making iron work on cotton machines. In 1852 he farmed in New York state, then went to Wisconsin. In 1860 he came to Morgan County, Illinois. On May 26, 1861 he married Hannah Weeks, widow of Washington Weeks.) |
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| Bryant, Hannah | 78 Yr 11 Mo 24 Da | 1 Feb 1890 | Wife of A. Bryant (Miss Hannah Mansfield was born at Laurel Hill, Pennsylvania. At age two years she moved with her parents to Ohio where she lived until age 19 years, at which time she moved to Indiana. She came to Morgan County, Illinois in 1831 during the summer following the "big snow". Her first husband was Orvil Bushnel and her second husband was Washington Weeks. At the time of her death she was the widow of Alpheus Bryant. Among her children were Orvil Bushnel, born in 1837 and died of wounds received during service in the Civil War; William Weeks, born Feb. 4, 1842; John L. Weeks, born Dec. 1, 1847; George W. Weeks, born Nov. 4, 1850; Thomas J. Weeks, born Jan. 14, 1853; and Benjamin Franklin Weeks, born Nov. 8, 1853. Hannah's death certificate is not recorded in the Morgan County Court House.) |
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| Hudleson, John | 44 Yr 4 Mo 22 Da | 10 Feb 1871 | ||||
| Mansfield, Edward |
51 Yr 1 Mo 3 Da | 10 Feb 1871 | (His tombstone was erected by his wife, Sarah L. Mansfield. His death certificate is not recorded in the Morgan County Court House. Page 27 of "Atlas Map of Morgan County, llinois, 1872" shows that he was born in Warren County, Indiana and came to Morgan County, Illinois in 1837.) |
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| Weeks, Lena M. |
__ Mar 1878 | 18 Apr. 1878 | Dau of T. J. & Mabel L. Weeks | |||
| Weeks, Margaret E. | 23 Yr 6 Mo 16 Da | 23 Aug 1869 | Wife of J. L. Weeks | |||
| Weeks, Raymond T. |
30 July 1878 | 2 Jan 1879 | Son of T. J. & Mabel L. Weeks | |||
| Weeks, Washington |
57 Yr 11 Mo 15 Da | 29 Jan 1858 |
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