Hickory Point cemetery putting online, tombstone photos need help here people.

Salem cemetery, Asbury Cemetery tombstone photos also going online.

working on the Sugar Grove with help of another fellow researcher.

Read below: our day cemeterying.....
Hello fellow researchers below is what I posted on my own board for my
Warren county web site @ AHGP. Hickory Point Cemetery really needs some help
from people who are descended from the ones buried here or it's not going to
be any longer. Read below. I'm only one person trying to do many many jobs
in cemeteries, my web pages, and other things and I need some help here and
some support in trying to put some semblence back into this cemetery that
hasn't had much even through it's own history. We need to do something now.
Thanks.
Foxie
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/il/county/warren/
Read below:


Hello everyone,
Hope you are all sound and safe. Our Weather sure is not cooperating
this spring, We've had cold, damp, rainey, and even a little snow.
Suppose to be getting up into the 60's this next week. But as I am
getting a little tired of it when some of the days are a little better
have been going out to the cemeteries anyway. Spring time is really
good time to be casing a cemetery to find older stones that might be
buried in the soil and such. the Ground is soft muddy right now. But
my daughter Kate and I we muddle through anyway and have a good time
doing it. In some of the newer photographs that will be going online
you also see my dog or rather my father's little Toy_fox terrier. He's
11 years old hardly ever went in a car but once he hears my keys
jingling he's all ready to jump in. Just gets a little cold right now.

I was asked to for some tombstone photos in the Salem Cemetery,
Ellison Twp., Warren County, Illinois for a lady who is trying to join
Daughter's of the American Revolution. Actually this was my first on
this Cemetery for someone to ask about them. Have found out there are
a bunch of Ross's that are buried there and some of the tombstones are
old and broken, sunken into the ground and not in very good shape.
They take good care of it otherwise but the older stones are going and
I didn't get all of them with my older digital I had and hadn't been
back down since with my newer camera so Yesterday, Kate, Bingo Buddy,
my dad's dog, and I headed out to get our sheep some feed and then the
poor things had to wait until after 8pm to get fed because I decided
on the way down we had to go by the Mosher Cemetery, where my great's
and the beginnings of my Wallace family are buried and I've been
looking for over ten years for my great grandmother's tombstones,
Huldah Whitman Wallace, but alas we still did not find hers. We did
however Find her or rather my 4th great grandfather's tombstone. It
was on the back of his wive's Nancy Smith. Her stone is old huge big
white slab that has been broken off for years and still lying in the
same place and I asked Kate if she could lift it up and so we could
look on the other side and there was his name. Walla---William
Wallace. I was so happy. Then we found another little tombstone for a
child, named Edward, son of W. W. & H. J. Wallace we dug it up and
stood it up. This cemetery was let go for many many years and then
cleaned up and some tombstones have been replaced and some of the
older ones are just plain decaying and being broken off and sunken in
ground, piled in an old tree stump. They did however cut out some old
trees from a couple of them. But was happy with the find and re
photographed my own families tombstones with my new camera. Then we
are off again to have lunch in Monmouth at Burger King, my daughter
won't eat at McDonald's.

On the way to the Salem Cemetery, we have to go by the road which goes
to the Hickory Point Cemetery and I've been wanting to see this
cemetery without any of the tall tall grass and weeds before it got
all overgrown again. I had taken most of the tombstones but that was
in the late fall when the grass was High. When taking them for a
couple of people we thought we had gotten them all. Well, we did get a
surprise there and I actually knew the cemetery would NOT be in Really
great condition but was very very much appalled at what we found with
the grass had been burned & cut off. Tombstones are being grunched up
by the mower which on the ones lying on the ground, they are blacked
and greyed from the heavy heat of the fire when burning which I also
realize some is from the lechenin that grows over time but they were
awful. You will be able to see as I'm going to put them all online.
Haven't decided how as of yet but am working on that. I want to help
this poor cemetery that has not had the best of care even in it's
beginnings. And now it's getting worse. A few of the Civil War
monuments really need to be replaced, some of the family stones could
use some help. I'm employing anyone with family in t