Johnson Cemetery
Sante Fe Township SESE3, T1N R3W
"In Honor of Service in the War of 1812"
Henry Sharp
Read by Louis & Linda Holthaus, Gloria Dettleff and Dorothy Falk on 19 Jan 2006
If you know of additional people that were buried here, please let us know.
This cemetery is about 1 block south of the Lowe and Pelican Roads junction in Section 2 on the Bergmann property. It was previously known as the Zachary property. Ask permission to visit the cemetery at the house up the hill by the red barn. After you walk over the dam, the cemetery is to the right in what used to be a little clearing but is now overrun with saplings, sticker bushes and years of dropped foliage. The cemetery was not affected by the creation of the farm lake.
The cemetery is among the oldest that we've seen and the only stones that we found, except for the Government marker, were buried under about 3 or 4 inches of dirt, leaves and roots. There were several markers, mostly broken and buried, dotted here and there throughout the possible-half-acre area.
When we arrived, the Henry Sharp 1812 marker was in front of the J. Nighswander Civil War marker, both next to a tree. We moved Henry's 1812 marker to an area near his wife Rhoda’s grave where there is a large broken unmarked buried limestone marker, which could be for his grave. We did not return the dirt on top of the graves since we think a family member will visit there this summer.
When we get the article about the ceremony when the marker was placed there, perhaps we’ll get a firm location for his grave.
One Sharp researcher is Becky at dncnbr@yahoo.com
* are items from previous readings by Helen Sharp Wickcliffe and by Ruth Nighswander Riggs.
| Name | Maiden | Born | Died | Comments |
| BONNER, Beulah Ann | LOCEY | -- | -- | From Beryl DURBIN 's letter |
| CROCKER, Stephen Nye | -- | 1869 | From Beryl DURBIN 's letter | |
| JOHNSON, Unknown | -- | -- | We assume some Johnsons are buried here. | |
| MARCHUM, Mary Ann (picture) | -- | 3 Aug 1856 | Wife of B. Aged 39 Y. | |
| NIGHSWANDER, Elizabeth | -- | 26 Jul 1879 | Death Register # 400. Age 69Y 6M 0D. Died from congestive fever. | |
| NIGHSWANDER, J. (picture) | -- | -- | Government head stone - Co. I, 111th ILL Inf. | |
| SHARP, Henry | 2 May 1773* | 24 Dec 1824* | Born Sussex Co., New Jersey*. Tarnished brass marker says "In honor of service in the War of 1812. NS USD." | |
| SHARP, Levi * | 23 Oct 1816* | 24 May 1848* | Son of Henry, married to Emily ELLIFF or ELLIS.* | |
| SHARP, P. ? | -- | -- | There is a footstone buried close to Rhoda Sharp, with initials only, too far away to be Paulina Stephens'. | |
| SHARP, Rhoda (picture) | BEAUCHAMP* | 18 Jul 1781 | 31 Mar 1846 | Stone buried. Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. Wife of Henry SHARP*. Dau of William BEAUCHAMP & Nancy [PARKER ]* Widow of Abram WALKER* |
| SMALLEY, Maria | -- | 22 Dec 1886 | Death Register # 1521. Age 33Y. Died from dropsy and heart disease. | |
| STEPHENS, Julia * | -- | 13 Jun 1852* | Dau of J. J. & L. M. [SHARP ]. 5Y, 3M 21D.* | |
| STEPHENS, Paulina | -- | 23 Jul 1854 | Dau of J. J. & L. M. Age 17Y 3M 23D. | |
| T., M. | -- | -- | An adult's footstone is leaning against a tree toward the back left of the area. | |
| THOMSON, James* | -- | 7 Jan 1859 | Aged 68Y 8M 12D *Based on an earlier Helen Wickcliffe's reading. | |
| TUTTLE, Rebecca A. | -- | 28 Oct 1884 | Death Register # 1520. Age 81Y 4M 7D. Died from bronchitis. |
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