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Subject: Re: [ILDOUGLA] Campbell/Bagdad Cemetery
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 10:29:14 -0600
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Find a Grave - Bagdad Cemetery also known as: Campbell Cemetery
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&GScid=2234366&CRid=2234366&;
pt=Bagdad%20Cemetery&

I have some notes on the people and the area from my database
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=brendablack

My pictures are on http://www.ancientfaces.com/research/member/4782/

My family members burials in Bagdad (Campbell) Cemetery, Bourbon Township,
Douglas Co., IL:

John L. Louthan and his wives, Margaret Kerfoot Carter & Sarah Hains
James Henderson Louthan
Henry William/Walker Louthan
Joseph Bradus Louthan
Charles Newson Louthan

Notes: Brenda's great-grandmother, Laura Catherine Moore attended the
Bagdad School (Douglas Co., IL) as a child. Just a few miles from Rockome
there was a settlement called Bagdad. It was settled around 1800 on the
Kaskaskia River which all settlement were at that time. It was a trying
community with a school, stores, brick factory and cemetery. Around 1850,
when the Illinois Central Railroad laid tracks south of Chicago, the area
east of Bagdad which is now Arcola became a hub for transportation. Bagdad
never was able to get a railroad so eventually the town died and the
businesses and people moved to Arcola ((Okaw, Indian name, became Arcola),
Chesterville or Arthur. The school is still standing and used as a private
school for the Amish in the area and is known as the Bagdad school.

There is also a Bagdad area in Shelby Co., KY where her (Moore) family lived
for a few generations having migrated from VA & PA.


Brenda in Memphis


> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [ILDOUGLA] Campbell/Bagdad Cemetery
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> Searching for anyone with family buried in Campbell/Bagdad Cemetery. Also
> asking for help from anyone who might know what happened to the stones
> that have disappeared over the years and if any are recoverable.
>
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> Thank you,
> Laura Graf

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