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From: "Tom Shawcross" <>
Subject: Re: [ILJACKSON] Asbury Cemetery
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 12:42:02 -0400
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I suspect that Charles BILDERBACK was buried in Glenn cemetery. I will be in
Illinois at the end of May, and I will look for his grave marker. I do not
know if Glenn cemetery was ever called Asbury cemetery, but I am guessing he
might be buried there because that was where his father-in-law, Moses
DONALDS, was buried.

Another possibility is that Charles was buried in the cemetery that is
located just off of Route 3, in the same general area as Buchanan cemetery
and Glenn cemetery. I don't know the name of this cemetery, but it is near
Bob O'Daniell's house. The cemetery is not on any Jackson County maps. It is
an old cemetery and I know that quite a few HERRIN family members are buried
there. I will check it at the end of May also.

Still another possibility is that there really was an ASBURY cemetery that
we do not know about. I know there were several cemeteries on family farms
that are not marked on the Jackson County maps, as I have been to some of
them. Unfortunately, a few have been plowed over by subsequent owners of the
farms. I hope this was not the case for ASBURY cemetery.

Other possibilities are that the Ava newspaper mistakenly identified the
cemetery as Asbury cemetery, or that Brenda Garver Lee erroneously
transcribed the newspaper obituary. Of these two possibilities, the former
seems much more likely than the latter.

Tom Shawcross

----- Original Message -----
From: "Velda Moore" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 9:49 AM
Subject: RE: [ILJACKSON] Asbury Cemetery


> Thank you, Tom, for answering. I feel too that this Asbury Cemetery had
> to be in Kincaid TWP. or at least in Jackson County. Most of my Asbury
> relatives were born in Jones Ridge and buried in Glenn Cemetery and
> Buchanan Cemetery. Could it have been that one of these Cemeteries was
> previously named Asbury?
>
> Velda Wittenbrink Moore
> Randolph County Genealogical Society
> visit: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilrcgs/
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Shawcross [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 7:56 AM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [ILJACKSON] Asbury Cemetery
>
>
> I have been following this discussion about Asbury cemetery, as the
> young man buried there was the husband of my great grand aunt, Nettie
> DONALDS. I have been hoping that someone would know the location of
> Asbury cemetery.
>
> It seems likely to me that the cemetery would have been in Jackson or
> Randolph county, based on the following newspaper obituary:
>
> "At the residence of John DUNHOUSE, in Kinkaid Twp., on Sunday
> 12/1/1889, Charles BILDERBACK
>
>
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