Gray Cemetery in New Salem, Illinois

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Get directions 290th Avenue and Pittsfield Road
New Salem, Illinois 62357 United States

Coordinates: 39.67837, -90.83873
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This cemetery is located in the SE of Section 27 in New Salem township and is about 2 miles south of the center of the town of New Salem. Burials date from the 1850's to the present. The Gray cemetery was started around 1840 with an acre of ground that was given to the Cemetery Association. Later another acre was bought from the Hooper family. It is known as the Hooper addition. In 1991 they opened another acre of land known as the Gray Cemetery Annex. There are no records for the old section.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) feature ID for the cemetery is 1725385 (Gray Cemetery).