Pauper Cemetery, Carlinville Township - Macoupin County IL



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Pauper Cemetery
(County Home Cemetery)
Macoupin County Illinois
Carlinville Township
E1/2 NW1/4 SE1/4 Section 16
39.310632
-89.87424

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The fenced cemetery is about 160 ft by 80 ft. There are only two stones in the cemetery. The WPA report reads that there are 325 graves in the cemetery. There are two ponds west and south of the cemetery. The approach to the cemetery is through the Macoupin County fairgrounds, skirting the north side of the fairgrounds race track then to the far east end turn north.

Name Birth Death Other or Notes Veteran? Donated By Obit?
Bridges, Joseph E.
Aug 16, 1909
Mar 19, 1933
23 yrs, 6mos, 23das
Private, Peace Time
Killed in an automobile accident
from WPA report
Yes
GF
 
Nichols, Margaret L.
36 yrs.
Aug. 20, 1853
w/o Bird M.
 
GF
 
Young, Catherine
 
May 20, 1879
from WPA report
 
GF
 



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