ELBA CEMETERY

North West Quarter Section 15, Elba Township, located on East side of County Hwy 18, about 1/2 mile North of Elba Center.  It was surveyed and platted as "ELBA GRAVEYARD" in May, 1857 by Elias T. Byram for Lawrence A. Jones. It is now known as Dalton - Jones Cemetery. At one time this cemetery was in terrible condition, but someone has been recently restoring it. Many trees and brush were removed with the stones being properly set into concrete. It is obvious there were many more burials here and it's hard to tell if the stones are where they originally were. It is regularly maintained. I read the stones from left to right, from the West.

Todd Walter
December 2001

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ROW 1

Miles A. Jones, Son of L.A. & P.P. 	Nov 26, 1853 Age 2y 8m 20d

Emaline C. Jones, Dau of L.A. &P.P. 	Jun 8, 1843 Age 2y 9d

ROW 2

Angeline A. Jones, Dau of L.A. & P.P. 	Mar 30, 1861 Age 13y 7m 23d

John P. Jones, Son of L.A. & P.P.	Feb 18, 1861 Age 21y 6m 27d

Leonard Jones	Feb 11, 1861 Age 52y 5m ?d

ROW 3

Hiram Johnson, Son of B.F. & L.	Jan 20, 1854 Age 1y 10m 28d

Joel Higby	Aug 9, 1860 Age 54y 9m 10d

ROW 4

Samuel L. Adams, Son of J.A. & A.M.	Jul 1, 1859 Age 1y 15d

ROW 5

(Same stone)
Horace J. Serles	Jan 2, 1853 Age 28y 3m 23d  (PROBATE)
Sarepid A. Serles, Dau of H. & M. H.	Sep 28, 1853 Age 7m 17d

George P. Lackey	May 22, 1860 Age 30y 6m 20d  (PROBATE)

ROW 6

Broken Stone, Unreadable

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There is also a footstone with the initials E. I. D.

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No. 24215 Filed September 12, 1857 (See Plat)

Elba Graveyard is laid out in the N.W. corner of the S.W. qr of sec 15, T 10 N, R 4 E of the 4th Principal Meridian, surveyed May ?, 1857 commencing at a stone at the NW Corner of said qr thence east on _ _ _
sec _ _ _ _ two hundred and eighty nine feet to set stone, thence south two hundred and sixty feet to set stone, thence W parallel to North line 289 feet to set stone, thence North 269 feet to the place of beginning. The lots are each twenty feet square, the _ _ _ _ _ alleys are each 20 feet wide the next are ten feet wide, and the narrow ones are five feet wide. Stones are placed at the places_ _ _ _ stated in _ _ _ Plat.
County of Knox, State of Illinois } I, Elias T. Byram County surveyor for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing plat and field numbers are a correct copy & representation of the Survey of the said Graveyard, Given under my hand this the 30 day of May 1857.
	Elias T. Byram, County Surveror

State of Illinois
Knox County   } I, William McGowan a Justice of the Peace for said County do hereby certify that on this day personally appeared before me L. A. Jones proprietor of Elba Grave Yard and acknowledged the execution of the same to be his act and deed for the uses and purposes in the foregoing plat & survey thereof & I _ _ _  and that the same is a correct plat & survey of Elba Grave Yard as made by E. T. Byram County Surveyor; Given under my hand and seal this the 19th day of June A.D. 1857
	William M. McGowan JP