Odd Fellows Cemetery Est. 1851 Granite City Illinois
This is the gate of the cemetery and you can see Rt3 in the back ground.
This is some of the Grave markers in the cemetery and this is my daughter helping to take down the names in the cemetery.
This is the tree that has fallen over and my daughters are tring to write down the names on the markers that are under the tree.
This Grave marker was uprooted from the tree falling , It belongs to Corpl. Wn. Hawks 91 inft.
This cemetery was walked October 12, 2003 by Keith , Teresa, Jessica and Jennifer Maddox.
This cemetery is not in good shape any more. This cemetery is located off Rt. 3 in Granite city .We did the best we could on transcribing this cemetery. Most of the markers have been knocked over or broke. The grass and weeds have taken over, and there is one big tree that has fallen over.
This is an over all look at the cemetery
The grave marker is across the road from the main gate.
This is the names that we found in this cemetery
This is all found on one Grave marker
Irish
Thomas B.
Dec 1849
July 3, 1851
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Elizabeth J.
June 1853
July 22, 1854
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Gillie L.
Sept. 1866
Nov 6, 1867
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Zephanian B.
Jan 15, 1861
Feb 18, 1877
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Side 2
Lillie M
Nov. 3, 1871
Aug , 1878
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Ferrie M.
Aug 6, 1863
April 24, 1884
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Tyler E.
Aug, 13, 1851
Dec 9, 1888
The Irish family childrens life span was not very long. The oldest on this marker is about 37 years old. Most of the children was little over year old. The mother and father have a different grave marker than their children.
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Dr. Tyler J. Irish
July 28, 1823
Aug 24, 1893
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Lucinda
wife of
J.T. Irish
July 25, 1830
Feb 11, 1885
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Louigiana
wife of
George Job
Can't read the rest.
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George Job
Died
May 3, 186?
62ys. 7mo. 9ds.
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Julia Virginia
dau of
G&L Job
died
July ? 18?
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John L. F.
Soechtig
Born May 11, 1881
Died
Sept 18, 1897
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Arla Anna
Wolk?
Born
Jun 28, 1857
Died
Nov. 18, 1919
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John Soechtig
Died
Nov. 17, 1884
Aged 31ys.
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Rose Lee
Died
June 25, 1880
Aged 18mo.
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Katie A.
Died
July 7, 1881
Aged 18mo.
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Atkins
Aria A. Atkins
Mother
Tis hard to break the tender cord when love has bound the heart, Tis hard so hard to speak the works must we forever part, dearest Mother we have laid thee in the peaceful graves embrace , but thy memory will be cherished till we see thy Heavenly face.
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Amos Atkins
Born
Apr. 10, 1821
Died
Sept, 26, 1887
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Benjamin Wood
Apr. 15, 1914
Sept 16, 1902
Mary Wood
Born May 5, 18?
Died
May 6, 1898
We loved them in life , let us not forget them in death.
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Amos Sligihton
Born
Aug 17, 1848
Died
Sept. ? 1882
Aged 36ys.
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Corpl. Wn Hawks
91 Ill Inf.
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Braden
Philip
Dec. 3, 1839
Feb. 3, 1922
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Catherine
Aug 2, 1849
July 25, 1920
Continued from Left Pane
Elizza
Daughter of
W.D & E. Hal---
Born
May 30, 186?
Died
Jan, 31, 188?
aged?
This grave marker has a piece missing from the side so can not get all the info.
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Morrison
Wm. Morrison
Nov. 1, 1834
Oct 6, 1911
Lucy J. Morrison
Nov 4, 1848
July 5, 1932
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Hier
Ruht In Gott
Moin Liehen G
This is all I can make out on this marker, it is in German and most of it is buried in the ground so I could not read the rest.
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Could not find a last name for this grave marker , there is four children on this one,
William
Died Sept. 2, 1885
Aged 8ys. 11mo. 12ds.
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Lulia M.
Died Mar. ? 18??
Aged ? ys. 7mo. 19ds
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Infant
Died Sept. 13, 1888
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Gilbert?
Died July?
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R. G. Austin M.D.
his wife
Mary Austin
erected by Ira Austin
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This is a two sided marker
side one
Sippy
Infant Children
of
H & M Sippy
Isaac
Born Mar. 10, 1853
Died Oct 15, 1853
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Celesta
Born Nov. 25, 1854
Died Oct 27, 1856
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Emma
Born Jun.21 , 1856
Died Sept 27, 1857
Aged 1ys. 11mo.6ds.
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Ida
Born Feb 7, 1859
Died July 12, 1865
Aged 6ys. 5mo. 5ds.
side two
Hiran Sippy
Born
In Beaaica County
Dec 11, 1811
Died
Mar 28, 18?
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Busch
Andrew
1800-1861
Regina
1801-1865
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Mary C. S
1840-1918
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Jesse T.M. Fries
Born
Nov 3, 1855
Died
Feb 19, 1881
aged
25ys. 3mo. 16ds.
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John Wood
Born Dec. 4, 1805
Died Nov. 28, 1877
Nancy A. Wood
Born July 23, 1809
Died no date
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In Memory of
Lavinia
wife of
J.M. Harklerodes
Born
April 29, 1833
Died
April 18, 1858
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Warren
son of
A.M & M.A Spry
Died
July 7, 1870
? mo. 27ds.
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Mother
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John W. Segar
Sept 20, 1844 - Jan 27, 1915
his wife
Josephine Segar
Jan. 13, 1846 - Jan 9, 1917
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Mary E. Segar
wife of
Wm. Majors
Nov. 7, 1866
June.1, 1916
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Not sure if this is the first name or last name. The grave marker has been broken in about four pieces.
Thomas
Born
Feb. 18, 1849
Died ?
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No Name
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Mary G. Squire
1840-1918
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No name
Squire
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Charles
the rest unreadable
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No name
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Warren
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Unreadable
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Five more grave markers unreadable
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In Memory of
my beloved Hushand
William Siegrrier
Born
Nov 27, 1833
Died
Sept. 17, 1872
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Sarah. A
wife of
H.W Wallace
Born
Nov 5, 1828
Died
July 7, 1870
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Sarah E.M.
Born Nov 30, 1866
Died July 18, 1868
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Unreadable
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John
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Unreadable
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Three more without names
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Madison M Marcum
Jan 29, 1826
Dec. 21, 1897
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Virginia
His wife
Jan 25, 1841
July, 1809
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Albert
July 16, 18??
?
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Alma
Died ?
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Broken marker
unreadable
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I went on this tour with the Moose club , I think it was called the Hunted trolley, it is out of Wood River Illinois. I was talking about the cemetery that I had just visited and the tour guide had told me that she had done a paper on the same cemetery and there was a legend about that cemetery , so I asked her if I could use it for my site. She gave me some photos to use and the paper she wrote.
This was written by Sharon Jones
The Legend of Lucinda's Graveyard
The Old Six-Mile Oddfellows, Cemetery stands lonely and forgotten now, a silent memorial to the people who settled there more than a century ago. Some of the tombstones are broken and strewn about in disarray, while others stand guard over its inhabitants, undisturbed by time, The little graveyard, located in the middle of a bean field, is where the early residents of the village of Nameoki find eternal rest, except for one. The ghost of Lucinda Irish has been seen wandering along the road that was built over her grave, disturbed at first by the creak of wagon wheels and the clop of horses hooves , and now by the revving engines and loud exhausts of modern cars.
Six-Mile Prairie was first settled in 1801 by Irish immigrants who came west from Virginia. The name of the settlement indicates the distance from St. Louis on the National Road. Located north of Granite City on Highway 3, it later became the village of Nameoki.
In 1833 Lucinda Elliott came to the area with her parents from Jersey County, Illinois. Her father farmed and furnished wood for boats and became prosperous until the flood in 1844. The water was so high at that time that children could only be saved by boat out of second story windows. Mr. and Mrs. Elliott moved away in 1848, but Lucinda stayed, having fallen in love with one of the new comers, Tyler J. Irish and son, Tyler, came from Auburn, New York to Madison County in 1842. Benjamin set up his medical practice and was well respected, Tyler studied medicine with his father and later became physician and druggist for the village and was appointed postmaster and coroner. Lucinda and Tyler had several children , seven of whom preceded them in death and are buried near them.
The legend of the area affectionately known as Lucinda's Graveyard, tells of the tragedies that supposedly befell its residents. First, a cholera epidemic claimed several lives, including some Indians who loved nearby. The Indian's, believing that the white men had put a curse on their tribe, led and attack and massacred most of the remaining settlers,. The stone cutter worked day and night trying to make the tombstones for his deceased friends, neighbors, and families, but died before finishing the last one, his own.
Although the legend is exciting, it seem to be only a story, the fabrication of and overactive imagination. Dr. Ben Irish died in 1851 of cholera, but there's no record of epidemic at that time. Cholera swept the county in 1849 and the early 1850's contaminated water mainly caused it. The Indians were gone from the area by then, moved west in the name of progress, Lucinda's husband, Dr. Tyler J. Irish, died in 1893 at the age of seventy from injuries be sustained in a buggy while making his professional rounds. Lucinda died a year and half later, perhaps of a broken heart.
Sometime later a road was constructed through the middle of the cemetery. It missed Lucinda and Tyler's tombstone by only inches. Employees of the nearby A.O. Smith factory working the midnight shift are among those who claim to have seen the figure of a woman walking through the fields surrounding the cemetery. Witnesses of the apparition believe the road in the cause for her restlessness, when the quiet is broken by a late-night passerby and awakens her from her eternal slumber.
Bibliography
Norton, W.T. History of Madison Co., Ill. and Iits People. Chicago and New York, Lewis Publishing Co. 1912. pp. 391,394, 458, 572.
History of Madison CO., Ill. Edwardsville, Ill. W.R. Brink and Co. 1882
History of Greene and Jersey Counties, Ill. Roodhouse Ill. The Daily Eve Book Printing House.
Interview: with Randy Jones, July 18, 1988
M.E Six-Mile Church erected in 1840 near the Edwardsville plank road 6 miles east of the Mississippi River. Some German & Swiss families who had arrived earlier were cheerfully granted permission to use the buildings as places of worship. Six-Mile Lodge #87 IOOF Jan 2, 1851. T.J Irish and Joseph Squires were 2 of the 5 charter members. Some of the first families of county and state were Benjamin Irish, T.J. Irish, Samuel Squire, Peter Barco, Calvin Kinder, John Woods, Thomas Lofton.
1858 Village of Nameoki
Hotel- B.F.Squires
Blacksmith shop- Henry Pretzel
Drug Store- Dr. T.J.Irish
Physicians- T.J. & E.T. Irish
Postmaster - T.J Irish [appointed in 1876]
Old Six Mile Oddfellows Cemetery
Nomeoki Township
Madison County , Ill. North of Granite City on Highway 3.
Dr. Benjamin J Irish
Born Apr. 3, 1798
Died June 13, 1851
aged 52ys, 2mo, 10ds.
His father was a Baptist Minister. He was born in Auburn , N.Y in 1798 graduated from medical school in N.Y.
He located to Nameoki in 1842 - had a prominent medical practice 1848 Pope Medical College in St. Louis conferred ad endum degree. Died of Cholera in 1851.
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Tyler J. son of Benjamin , born in N.Y came to Madison Co. in 1842, studied medicine with his father, operated first drugstore in Nameoki and was appointed postmaster in 1876. While on professional rounds he was accidentally thrown from his buggy and died from injuries in Aug. 1893.
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Mary Jane Wooldridge
Aug 2, 1872
3mos. 1ds.
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Margaret Hicks
1867
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Henry Squire
1864-1873
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Rush Graves
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Mrur ? Marcum
Nov 2, 1790
Dec. 23, 1867
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Squire Cemetery in field
Amos
Sept. 15, 1774
Aug 12, 1825
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Temperance
Sept. 19, 1781
Nov 20, 1842
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Samuel
June 29, 1806
Dec. 28, 1883
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Jane
Sept 27, 1812
Mar 5, 1849
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Genrietla
Dec. 4, 1803
June 23, 1862
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Amos
1818
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Samuel
Dec. 27, 1844
Dec. 2, 1869
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Joseph
Jan 16, 1847
July 3, 1876
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Amos Squire came from Maryland in 1808 and located on an improvement vacated by the French, his son Samuel came at that time also.
Also in Squire Cemetery are the Wheeler, Drummonds, Stevenson, Calvin, Smith.
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Atkins
Wn. N.
Sept 1, 1830
Sept 13, 1857
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John
son of
Amos & Mary
Sept. 17, 1853
May 30, 1870
Oh cease dear PArents, cease your weeping above the spot where I am sleeping , My time was short and blest be he that call me to eternity.
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Niram Arthur
Mar 25, 1790
Dec. 20, 1863
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Augusta Ann Tallmal
Samule M.
Nov 11, 1813
Sep 10, 1825
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Ella Mae
May 17, 1880
Sept. 23, 1894
dau of W.J. & E Prindle
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Father
Henry B. Johnson
Aug 23, 1882
Oct 25, 1917
[grave edged in concrete]
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William Siegfried
Nov 27, 1833
Sept. 17, 1872
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Benjamin
Nephew
of B. Wood
1863
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Sarah Brown
Oct. 28, 1832
Feb 6, 1876
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Mabel
Oct. 13, 1874
Feb. 10, 1910
wife of
Wn. Segar
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James Segar
Aug 22, 1830
Apr 13, 1861
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These are photos taken by Sharon Jones in 1988.
Thanks to Sharon Jones and all her research on this cemetery and the earlier settlers in this area. I would like to thank you so much for letting me use your research to bring this cemetery alive with the history of its residents.
