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From: Robert L Webb <>
Subject: Re: [ILBOND] Lindley
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 17:33:40 -0600


Is this very close to the present-day Smith's Grove Baptist Church (I
think that's its name)? If so, I might have a possible explanation.
Elder David Badgley (who organized the first Baptist church in Illinois
in 1796) organized the first church of any faith (I think) in Bond
County, in 1810, and it was called Shoal Creek, and Simon Lindley was one
of the charter members. Simon Lindley came to Bond county in 1808 from
Madison Co., and returned to Madison county after the settlers were
terrorized by Indians, from about 1811 until about 1814, when many of
them went back to Edwardsville on account of the swarming numbers of
Indians who had killed many of them. I'm not sure whether Shoal Creek
Church survived this ordeal. But I have an account written in 1933 and
published in a newspaper (probably from Greenville), authored by James E.
Long, which says that the meeting house of this Shoal Creek church is
almost the exact site of the present Smith's Grove Church. If all of
this information is widely known by all of you, please forgive me for
boring you with it again, and especially if I have missed the mark in
regard to the discussion at hand, on the Wait cemetery.
Robert Webb

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 17:07:08 -0600 "SFC John B Langford Jr"
<> writes:
> In response to "abandoned cemetery". Not yet.
> The WAIT Cemetery, south of Reno (Bethel Church), Shoal Creek, Bond
> County,
> Illinois, has been in use since 1812.
> This cemetery is, for some reason unknown to me, is listed as WADE
> Cemetery,
> on some WebPages. The WAIT Cemetery (1 acre) was set aside, for use
> by the
> "neighbors" in the area. It has, since become an almost, "Coyle
> Family"
> cemetery. Mostly, because Coyle family descendants lived on the
> farms
> nearby, and still do. The area were the "LINDLEY" graves were found,
> were in
> the northeast section, overgrown, and not actually part of the
> original
> plot. Even when the road was expanded, some unknown burial sites
> were
> uncovered. Not part of the cemetery.
> The WAIT Cemetery Trustees, are in the process of trying to
> "update'' whom
> are buried there. In doing so, all grave tombstones are being
> photographed,
> and sites documented. The WAIT Cemetery Trustees, will put a stone
> marker
> with name and dates, where a grave is found. So, if you know or
> THINK
> someone is buried in the WAIT (or listed as WADE) Cemetery, let me
> know. A
> lot of grave stone-markers have eroded beyond identifying or have
> disappeared. Approximately 75+ graves are unknown as to whom there
> are.
>
> One grave is marked with a *GAR 301* Marker. ARCHIE EWING, 1828 -
> 1908, "Co.
> H, 29th U. S. C, T. (Colored Troop)", one of the three, in the Civil
> War
> Reunion picture on the Bond Co. website.
> Others one of interest:
> WADE, JOHN T. PVT CO E 3 ILL INF MEXICAN WAR. -1900.
> HARMON, ARCHILLE PVT CO C 3 ILL INF MEXICAN WAR. (no dates).
> A complete list, with Tombstone pictures, will be given to the
> Greenville
> Library - Bond Co. Historical Society, when finished. And a list to
> Ted
> Cash. Photos will be sent to Ted, if Ted can figure out how and
> where to put
> them. And I can figure out how to send them.
>
> SFC John B. Langford, Jr., U. S Army Ret.;
> :
> ;
> Greenville, Illinois;
> SAR #151258; ILSSAR #7375;
> Life Member VFW #128827;
> Life Member AMVETS #1252565;
> American Legion # 201577802;
> Endowment Member NRA #130854;
> Life Member NAHC #85195.
> Updated December 21, 2000.
> In Memory of Lawrence H. Langford. World War II Veteran, U. S. M. C.
> http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/l/a/n/John-B-Langford-jr/
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Juli Claussen & Tim Damian" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 12:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [ILBOND] Lindley
>
>
> > No Simon, but an Elijah Lindley, b. 3-14-1804 is listed by Walter
> Sanders
> as
> > among the earliest settlers of Montgomery Co. Could this be the
> "E.L."
> > recently found in the previously unknown portion of an abandoned
> cemetery?
> > Juli Claussen
> >
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