Sharon Cemetery, also called Old Sharon, is adjoining the present site (the third site) of Old Sharon Church which was organized as the first Presbyterian Church to be organized in Illinois in 1816. Informal meetings have [Read more…]

The following is a continuation of the listing of Civil War Veterans buried in the Norris City area. This list covers those Civil War Veterans buried in Mt. Olive, Powell, and Rice Cemeteries in Indian Creek Township of White [Read more…]

I was talking to a resident of Norris City recently, and we were reminiscing about the difference in downtown Norris City on Saturday and Saturday evenings in the 1950s and now. The stores stayed open on Saturdays until [Read more…]

I have found that more Civil War veterans are buried in this area than I had realized. Therefore, I have had to spread out the project and cut back some on the number of cemeteries I researched because of the space required [Read more…]

I had planned in this article to list Civil War Veterans buried in Indian Creek Township of White County and Big Hill Cemetery in Mayberry Township of Hamilton County, but I found more veterans than I had realized. It was [Read more…]