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Summit Street Burial Ground

Freeport, Stephenson County, Illinois, USA

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Get directions foot of Summit Street
Freeport, Illinois 61032 United States

Coordinates: 42.30326, -89.62546
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The first death in Freeport was that of Emma Eads, a child of Hiram Eads, in the autumn of 1836. She was laid to rest in a plot of ground which in 1838 or 1839 was laid out as the first town cemetery in Freeport. Located at the foot of Summit Street, it served as the town's burial ground until it ran out of space during the cholera epidemic of 1852. With the first town cemetery overflowing, present-day Freeport City Cemetery on Lincoln Avenue was opened.

Some of the bodies were removed from the first municipal burial ground to the north and west margins of Freeport City Cemetery.

Source: Tombstone Records from the Freeport, Illinois, City Cemetery by Mrs. Nelson C. Phillips (circa 1933)

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