Keyesport Cemetery
Irishtown Township, Clinton County, Illinois
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Read and copyrighted by Gloria Dettleff and Dorothy Falk on 3 May 2002
In Keyesport, go south on Main Street to Layfette Street, turn right. In a block or two, take another right on Whig Street. This cemetery is in the back yard of the house at that intersection. Larger cemeteries for the Keyesport area are the McNeill Cemetery, the McKendree Chapel Cemetery which is on the Bond County side of County Road and the Duncan Cemetery which is also in Bond County.
The history of the cemetery is published in the Clinton County Historical Society Quarterly 15 # 3.
- For the Veterans, GHS means Government Head Stone
- PHS means Private Head Stone.
- * marks information obtained from death certificate that is not on the stone.
| Row | Name | Born | Died | Comments |
| -- | ALEXANDER, W. | 12 Jan 1879 | Co. F 79 IL Inf GHS. Death Certificate # 244. Age 43Y 9M 12D. | |
| -- | BRUNER, Walter Mason | 8 Mar 1881 | Death Certificate # 843. Age 3Y 1M 6D. | |
| 1 | BRUNNER, A. J. | 4 Jan 1882* | Pvt. Co G 50th IL Inf GHS. Death Certificate # 1076. | |
| 2 | DILL, Blanche V. | 27 Nov 1878 | 7M 5D. Dau of A. & R. Death certificate # 206. | |
| 2 | DILL, Eliza A. | 25 Aug 1882 | 9 Nov 1882 | 2M 14D |
| 2 | DILL, Florence E. | 2 Nov 1879 | 5 Jun 1880 | 7M 3 D Dau of Ambrose & Rebecca. Death Certificate # 641. |
| 2 | DILL, Lillie | 5 Mar 1881 | 15M 11D. Dau of Ambrose & Rebecca | |
| -- | DILL, Martha Jane | 15 Jun 1879 | Death Certificate # 369. Age 46Y. | |
| -- | HORD, Thomas | 20 Oct 1882 | Death Certificate # 1234. Age 67Y. | |
| -- | PHISTER, Alonzo | 31 Jul 1900 | As the 1956 Honor Roll states. Sgt. Co D 15th IL Reg | |
| -- | SCOTT, James A. | 25 Nov 1880 | Death Certificate # 778. Age 27Y 4M. | |
| -- | STANLY, Frank B. | 24 May 1909 | As the 1956 Honor Roll states. Pvt Co I 30th IL Vol Inf GHS | |
| 3 | UNKNOWN | 9 Sep 1879 | Stone broken, only base is left. | |
| 3 | WEEMS, Jas. E. | -- | Broken stone. Death Certificate # 747. | |
| 3 | WEEMS, Martha J. | 7 Sep 1854 | 30 Apr 1878 | Wife of J. E. Footstone M. J. E.. Death Certificate # 1878 |
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