Grand Detour Cemetery

Grand Detour Township

The cemetery is on the north edge of the village of Grand Detour where Green Street becomes Ridge Road. The land was donated by Mr. Leonard Andrus, a prominent early settler and partner of John Deere. The first burial was in 1850. There are a few markers of earlier dates (1839) which were moved from their original burial place in an adjacent sheep pasture. Several of the older stones are of soft stone which has weathered, but most are still readable. There are many Civil War Veterans buried here, mostly from the 34th Illinois Infantry.

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Surname Index: (from mid 1980's)

Abels Adams Aiken Ainsworth Albertson Alvey Anderson Andrus Anthony Aswege Axelson Bachtel Backus Bailey Baker Bear Beardsley Bearman Beebe Beerens Bennett Bennewitz Bishop Black Blanchard Blase Bosworth Boyd Boyer Boyle Bradley Breisch Bridges Bridgman Briggs Brockwell
Brooke Brown Bucker Bull Burdick Burket Burton Butterfield Bymaster Carey Carpenter Carr Carter Case Casterline Chamberlain Chamberline Chase Chasm Cherry Clayton Clement Cline Coddington Colson Cook Cool Coon Cooper Cotton Cox Crandall Crull Cumins Cunningham Cushing
Dailey Dana Davis DeLavergne Derr Dodd Doneho Doolittle Dudley Dunlap Durkes Dutcher Dyer - Earll Eddy
Eilbert Emmitt England Faoro Feaster Fike Fine Fish Fisher Flamm Fletcher Flick Floto Floy Foster Fowler Fox Foxley Freeman French Fruin
Garner Gates Geablish Gearhart Geer Genck Ge??rick Gilbert Gilman Glessner Goodrich Goodspeed Gould Gray Greeley Green Gronewold Grover Gull Guynn Gyger Hack Hamilton Hammond Harams Harkness Har?? Harrick Harrington Harvey Hathaway Heatherington Heckman Hemenway Hemmen Henson
Herbick Hewett Hewitt Higgins Hill Hintz Hoff Hoffman Hope Horari (?) Houghton House Howard Hubbell Hunsdon Hyde Isenberg Isenhart Jacoby Jansen Jarvis Jenkins Johnson Jones Joselyn Kalb Karr Kelchner Kelly Kessler Kirk Kizer Koontz Laidig Lambert Langdon
Lathiro (?) Law Lawson Lawver Ledley Lewis Lingg Little Lotteroth Louden Lowry Lyon McAllister McBride McCardle McCarty McCaslin McCollum McConnell McGarvie McPherson Manges Maurin May Meinen Merrill Merritt Merryfield Miller Mix Moll Mon Monroe Moore Morey Morrison
Moser Moulton Mulnix Mumma Myers Need Newcomer Nichols Nunemaker Nunn Olson O'Ororsah Orr Owen Ozier Packard Paine Palmer Pankhurst Parker Parks Payne Pettenger Pomeroy Porter Portner Powers Price Pritchard Purtteman Quimby Raymond Reese Reitzell Remmers Richards
Roe Rogers Roos Rottboll Rowland Ruppert Sabin Sadler Sampson Sarver Sawyer Schroeder Schryver Schultz Schumaker Scoon Seger Senn Shafter Shaver Shaw Sheffield Shook Smice Smith Snook Southwick Sprague Stage Staples Statton Steder Steel Steele Stenzel Stern
Stevens Stevenson Strong Strouss Sturtivant Sully Switzer Taylor Teeter Tholen Thompson Throop Todd Townsend Turrill Ulosovich Unrine VanDyke Veith Wadsworth Wakenight Walker Wall Ward Warner Watros Watts Welfare Welty Whemhofer Whitcombe Wiesel Wilbur Wiley Williams Wilson
Winebrenner Witzler Wolfe Wood Woods Woodbury Wright Wulf Yates Young

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