Vital Records:

 

Births 1870 – 1900

 

Deaths 1878 – 1900

 

Marriages 1859 – 1927

 

Census Records:

 

Federal Census on microfilm: 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930

 

County History: printed in 1985

Maps/Plats: 1876, 1884, 1892, 1901, 1916 (all 1992 reprint)

Land and Deed Records: 1885 – 1891

Collected obituaries - various range of dates to present

Master Index of Known Burials

 

Cemeteries: (by township) 

 

Brenton Township

 

 

Brenton Cem. in sec 5 

 

Button Township 

 

 

Mt. Olivet Cem. in sec 31 

 

 

Pleasant Grove Cem. in sec 31 

 

Dix Township

 

 

Blackford (aka Waggoner) Cem in sec 33 

 

 

Elliott Cem. in sec 11 

 

 

Pontoppidan Cem. in sec 24 

 

 

Todd Cem. in sec 35N (farmed over)

 

 

Wallace Cem. in sec 11 Wallace Cem. in sec 11

 

Drummer Township

 

 

Drummer Twp. Cem. (aka Gibson City Cem.) in sec 11 

 

Lyman Township

 

 

Lyman Cem. near Roberts, IL in sec 16

 

 

St. Mary's Catholic Cem. in Sec. 16 

 

Mona Township 

 

 

Kempton Hill Cem. in sec 6 

 

 

Kelley (aka Mona Twp.) Cem in sec 15 

 

Patton Township

 

 

Farmersville Cem. in sec 30W 

 

 

Hall Cem. in sec 33E

 

 

Glen Cem. in Paxton, IL 

 

 

Meharry (aka Stoner) Cem. in sec 10W

 

 

Old Paxton (aka Prospect) Cem. in Sec 17 

 

 

Ten Mile Grove Cem. in sec 14 

 

Peach Orchard Township 

 

 

Melvin Cem. in sec 36

 

Pella Township 

 

 

Calvary Cem. in sec 33 

 

Rogers Township

 

 

Clayton Cem. in sec 34

 

 

Eldridgeville Cem. near Cabery, IL (actually just in Kankakee Co.) 

 

 

Mt Hope Cem. near Cabery, IL (actually just in Kankakee Co.)

 

 

St. Joseph’s Cem. in sec 17 

 

Sullivant Township 

 

 

Mt. Hope (aka Sibley) Cem. in sec 27 

 

Cremations/Body to Science: Collected obituaries in lieu of cemetery 

 

Newspapers: 

 

Melvin Motor (on microfilm)

 

 

1900 - 1902

(gaps) 1908 – 1929

 

Paxton Record (on microfilm)

 

 

1898 - 1901

1903 - 1907

1909 - 1930

1932 – 1934

 

Piper City Journal (on microfilm)

 

 

1897 - January 1925

 

Roberts Herald (on microfilm)

 

 

December 1917 - January 1920

 

Sibley Journal (on microfilm)

 

 

1897 - 1898

1901 - July 1924

November 1931 - January 1945