Cemeteries

Cemetery Books by SCCGS

• Book descriptions 
• Shop all online (digital and softcover)
• A few remaining softcover titles are on this  Books Order Form. Tombstones may record birth dates well before statewide records were required (1916).

Illinois Comptroller’s office help: https://illinoiscomptroller.gov/about/place/licensee-info/abandoned-cemeteries

On our websites

• Cemeteries BY LOCATION (Township, Range, Section) and books available.
• Tombstone Surname INDEX for 150 of 370+ cemeteries (as of 2008). Excludes the following four cemeteries:
  • BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Cemetery, Centreville – history of records preserved for this historic African-American burial site..
  • MOUNT HOPE:
    • Join SCCGS to access this cemetery’s books, indexes, and burial records, a Member benefit.
    • About the Mt. Hope project: maps, history, timeline.
  • Burials in ST. CLAIR MEMORIAL PARK Cemetery (Canteen-Stites Township) — a transcription from cemetery lot cards.
  • WALNUT HILL Cemetery (Belleville) includes:
    • Monument photographs (some)
    • Names and dates (1878-1992) from Lot Cards (23,000 of 31,000 people buried)
    • The Original sexton’s books (1855-1878) courtesy of Belleville City Hall.
    • Search  (look for Walnut Hill among the ‘hits’).
• The Classroom in the Member site showcases new information about St. Clair’s cemeteries.

Quarterly articles

The Old Burial Ground (Belleville), Harrison, and early Belleville Cemeteries (in Quarterly Volume 28 Number 3) are but a few of the cemetery articles which appear throughout the Quarterly.

SCCGS’s cemetery committee was the recipient of state and national awards for its work preserving records of more than 370 cemeteries throughout St. Clair. Chief among these hardworking dedicated people are the former co-chairs, now deceased, Else E. Schmidt and Martha Mae Schmidt.