Old Conaway Farm Cemetery
McLean County, Illinois, USA – *No GPS coordinates
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Add PhotosAcres: 80
Meridian: 3rd PM
State: Illinois
County: McLean
Township: 22-N
Range: 4-E
Section: 21
Accession Number: IL0670__.149
per the book "Heritage of a the Prairie: History of LeRoy, IL" page 11 & 81...This cemetery may have been overrun by the Construction of Interstate 74.
"The Conaway Cemetery is in Section 28 of Empire township just south of
LeRoy on the east side of what used to be the south LeRoy blacktop road.
It was feared that I-74 would go through the cemetery but it is just
north of I-74. Some of the people buried in that cemetery were moved to
Oak Grove Cemetery after it was started but not all of them were moved."
"These early small family or community burial grounds were most in use
during that period from early settlement until after the Civil War when
there were no undertakers in this vicinity. The markers in these early
cemeteries were usually sandstone or marble about three inches thick.
This may be one reason these cemeteries disappeared. After some of the
people were moved to larger cemeteries and the remaining graves
neglected it was easy for the stones to be piled along a fence row so
the land could be farmed or livestock grazing around them trampled them
into the ground. Many of these stones, especially the ones in fence
rows, were carried away by people for door steps, walks and even patios."
(From the book Heritage of the Prairie: A History of Le Roy and of
Empire and West Townships, McLean County, Illinois, 1976, page 81).
Bertha B. Watters (1887-1968) of McLean County wrote:
"the old Conaway Cemetery was destroyed years ago. Some were moved to
Oak Grove. My husband's father (who was 60 when Fay was b) regretted he
did not move the 20 graves left."
Bertha did extensive genealogical research about the extended Conaway
family in McLean County. Her husband Samuel "Fay" Watters was a
descendant in the family. Bertha's family files were placed in the
Crumbaugh Library at Le Roy, McLean County, Illinois.
Acres: 80
Meridian: 3rd PM
State: Illinois
County: McLean
Township: 22-N
Range: 4-E
Section: 21
Accession Number: IL0670__.149
per the book "Heritage of a the Prairie: History of LeRoy, IL" page 11 & 81...This cemetery may have been overrun by the Construction of Interstate 74.
"The Conaway Cemetery is in Section 28 of Empire township just south of
LeRoy on the east side of what used to be the south LeRoy blacktop road.
It was feared that I-74 would go through the cemetery but it is just
north of I-74. Some of the people buried in that cemetery were moved to
Oak Grove Cemetery after it was started but not all of them were moved."
"These early small family or community burial grounds were most in use
during that period from early settlement until after the Civil War when
there were no undertakers in this vicinity. The markers in these early
cemeteries were usually sandstone or marble about three inches thick.
This may be one reason these cemeteries disappeared. After some of the
people were moved to larger cemeteries and the remaining graves
neglected it was easy for the stones to be piled along a fence row so
the land could be farmed or livestock grazing around them trampled them
into the ground. Many of these stones, especially the ones in fence
rows, were carried away by people for door steps, walks and even patios."
(From the book Heritage of the Prairie: A History of Le Roy and of
Empire and West Townships, McLean County, Illinois, 1976, page 81).
Bertha B. Watters (1887-1968) of McLean County wrote:
"the old Conaway Cemetery was destroyed years ago. Some were moved to
Oak Grove. My husband's father (who was 60 when Fay was b) regretted he
did not move the 20 graves left."
Bertha did extensive genealogical research about the extended Conaway
family in McLean County. Her husband Samuel "Fay" Watters was a
descendant in the family. Bertha's family files were placed in the
Crumbaugh Library at Le Roy, McLean County, Illinois.
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