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Elmwood Cemetery
Centralia, Marion County, Illinois

710 Gragg Street, Centralia, Illinois, USA, 62801

Lat: 38° 32' 28"N, Lon: 89° 07' 25"W
T1N R1E Section 7

Contributed by Bill Culbreth, Jul 20, 2011, last edited Jul 15, 2012 [billc62801@charter.net]. Total records = 16,219.

In Centralia driving north on Elm Street turn right or east onto Gragg Street for .74miles, turn left or north onto Brick Hill Road. The cemetery will be on the east side of the road after the turn.

One tombstone indicates burials took place as early as 1825 with the City of Centralia, IL. assuming operation in 1853 and becoming the official owner and operator in 1860. The cemetery is currently in operation and maintained by the City of Centralia, Illinois

For additional burial information (and there is considerably more in the City's computerized data-base which can be released to interested family members) contact: City Hall (They will direct you to the correct person who can assist you) 222 South Poplar St. Centralia, Illinois 62801, 1-618-533-7622

The information contained in this submission was "harvested" from the tombstones, official burial records in the cemetery office, Civil War Death Records, State Of Illinois death database, Ancestry.com, microfilm at the local library, available funeral home burial records and some information provided by family members. NOTE: Harvesting outside of the available cemetery office records was absolutely necessary to fill in many of the blanks since City Hall burned in 1924 and with it most if not all burial records from 1853 to 1924. Unfortunately, therefore, some individuals buried in Elmwood Cemetery who did not have a legible tombstone will never be known. In some cases, we only know (from funeral home records) that a person is buried somewhere in the cemetery, location unknown.

The work was completed mainly by Bill Culbreth & Jim Glasgow who volunteered to harvest and enter this information into the City of Centralia In-Code-Data-Base system. Transcribing the entries started in December of 2007 and was completed in November of 2010.

- Bill Culbreth

Legend:

b. = born bur. = buried d. = died

Records Index:

Surnames A Surnames Ba-Be Surnames Bi-Bo Surnames Bp-Bz Surnames Ca-Cl Surnames Co-Cz Surnames D Surnames E Surnames F Surnames Ga-Gl Surnames Go-Gz Surnames Ha Surnames He-Hi Surnames Ho-Hz Surnames I-J Surnames K Surnames L Surnames Ma-McF

Surnames McG-Mi Surnames Mo-Mz Surnames N-O Surnames Pa-Pf Surnames Pg-Pz Surnames Q Surnames Ra-Ri Surnames Rj-Rz Surnames Sa-Se Surnames Sh-Sm Surnames Sn-Sz Surnames T Surnames U-V Surnames Wa-We Surnames Wh-Wz Surnames X-Z Miscellaneous