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Siloam Baptist Church Cemetery

Massac County, Illinois, USA

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Get directions Massac County, Illinois, USA

Coordinates: 37.12160, -88.49639
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Siloam or Sam Smotherman Cemetery is located on Unionville Road in the East Brooklyn Township near the Massac and Pope County line. Siloam Baptist Church, located 0.13 miles west, was built approximately in 1875 and served the African-American population in the communities of Unionville and New Liberty. Several of the original families are buried in the cemetery. The cemetery may also be the final resting place of members of the Little Rock Christian Church, also African-American and built in 1875.

Many believe that New Liberty was established by former/escaped slaves from the pro-Confederate western Kentucky region. However, as early as 1854 "The 1854 Gazetteer of the United States" by Thomas Baldwin meantions New Liberty as "a small post-village of Pope co., Illinois, on the Ohio River." Many of the early settlers probably were Revolutionary War veterans or ran keel-boats on the Ohio River. New Liberty was originally part of Johnson County before Pope county was established in 1816.

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