In an article in the Rockford Morning Star of June 11, 1905, it was estimated that there had been approximately 4,000 burials in Cedar Bluff Cemetery up to that time. About 1905 - 1910, the cemetery nearly doubled in size by acquiring property east to Davis Street. The tract was surveyed by Duncan Ferguson, April 13, 1853 ( History of Rockford and Winnebago County, Illinois, Charles A. Twelve acres were purchased from Bela Shaw for $400. Final organization was made November 28, 1851. Potter, Willard Wheeler, Bela Shaw, Selden M. For many years, vaults (of some type) have been required.Ĭedar Bluff Cemetery Association was formed February 18, 1847. However, absence of this should not be interpreted as no vault. In the Notations column, “V, CV, FGV, SV, or BV” notes that a vault was used. “MEM” in the grave location columns means that the person was not probably buried here, but was included in a memorial inscription on a monument. It may be an inscription on a large central monument, or individual headstones. “X” in the Marker column indicates that the site was checked and there is some kind of marker for the person. “PF” originally meant Potter’s Field, but includes other single grave burials it is the open area in the northwest corner of the cemetery with mostly unmarked graves. “CCB” means that if you wish information or have knowledge of the burial site, you should contact the Cedar Bluff Cemetery Sexton. In the grave location columns, “LNS” means the location was not specified in available records, but we may find some of these later when copying marker inscriptions. DeWitt will be ahead of Dean, DuFoe ahead of Duckett. If you are looking for a name like DeWitt, DuFoe, or LaRoque, note that the software program we used sorts capital letters ahead of lower case letters. If the death did not occur in Winnebago County, IL, and was noted on a record, the death location is included in the Notations column. Likewise if only the burial date is known, the suffix “B” is added. If it is known to be the death date, a suffix “D” is added. It is recommended that serious genealogists seek original records as their documentation source rather than referencing this index.ĭates are shown as year-month-day (e.g. Therefore, this is not an “official” Cedar Bluff Cemetery record it is a guide for the family genealogist or historical researcher that simply was not previously available. Also, most “pre-need” purchase records have not been included. Those without some distinguishable identification are excluded from this list. Many early burial records may just say “baby”, “Mrs. Using the supplementary sources mentioned above helped clarify some of these problems. Over the 150 years of Cedar Bluff burials, there was a large variance in the record keeping expertise and legibility of the handwriting of the sextons and their helpers, as well as that of the fiduciary trusteeship of bank personnel. The 11,659 records in this database include burials through 1999. Also, some entries have been “enhanced” by data from the Social Security Death Index, newspaper obituaries, probate files, local histories, funeral home and monument company records, county death records, etc. Additional data has been entered from gravestone inscriptions, but that part of the project has only been completed for a small portion of the cemetery as of this date. It was initially compiled from several sources of cemetery records including lot plat maps, lot/grave ownership cards, burial permits, and other miscellaneous information made available to the project volunteers. This is not just a verbatim copy of the burial records of Cedar Bluff Cemetery.
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