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From: "Patterson, Dallas" <>
Subject: Re: [ILPOPE-L] Pope Co. Cemeterys
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 05:01:11 -0700


Jon Musgrave wrote:
>
> >I have checked all four volumes of Pope County Cemeteries, but found no Rock
> >Creek Community Cemetery. Could it have had another name?
> >
> The Rock Creek community is in Hardin County in the Camp Cadiz area. It was
> the home of Anna Bixby. I think there is a ghost town of Rock northeast of
> Dixon Springs State Park in Pope County. Are you sure about the county.
>
> Jon Musgrave
>
> Check out Jon's Southern Illinois History Page
> at http://www.midamer.net/users/jonm

Rock is a very small populated place of 'living individuals' and uncounted ghosts
<g>, located in Township 13 South, Range 5 East, on the borders of Section 1
and 2 in Pope County.

Rock Creek is another community located in Hardin County.

Searches on the U.S. Geological Survey GNIS database (a gazateer) identify
churches and cemeteries named Rock Creek in other areas of Illinois, but not in
Pope and Hardin Counties. Use your Web browser to see and print the information,
and link from the Web page to the Tiger Maps of the U.S. Census Bureau to see and
print maps at different scales.

There is a description of Rock (formerly Birdseye) in the Pope County, Illinois
History, Vol. 1, but there are no descriptions of such a church or cemetery.

Probably, the cemetery you are seeking is in Hardin County nearby the Rock Creek
community.

About ten years ago, we purchased a small map at the Pope County Courthouse that
identified many of the cemeteries of Southern Illinois. It was produced as part
of a government/university research project for the region. Someone in the area
may be able to help you to use this resource. Our copy is missing in action as a
result of our last move, and we're waiting to see which box it's in <g>.

Dallas Patterson

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