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(1) Lakeview Memorial Cemetery began May 1952. 
	5000 North Illinois Street
	Belleville, IL 62221. Phone: (618) 233-7200.  
	Give date of death or burial.  They may provide birth and death dates 
	and location of graves.  No charge.

(2) St. Peter’s United Church of Christ Cemetery published in combination with 
	Church Records in 1978 Centennial Book.   
	Updated 1998.

(3) Green Mount Catholic Cemetery burials begin 1877. 
	Contact in writing St. Peter's Cathedral Rectory
	200 West Harrison St., Belleville, IL 62220 (donations appreciated).  
	There are graves and stones which predate this period which may have been 
	moved from the Catholic Graveyard originally on Race Street 
	(now South Third and W. Harrison Streets). No sexton's book exists 
	for the earliest burials other than the Liber Defunctorum (book of deaths) 
	kept by the parish church.  Some Catholics were buried in Walnut Hill’s 
	Catholic section from the latter 1850s–forward. 
	See also formation history article, 'Belleville's Early Cemeteries' cited below.

(4) Green Mount Protestant [non-sectarian] records at Belleville Public Library, and 
	Tisch Monument Company 
	17 North 3rd St, Belleville, IL  62220 .
	The Society has a transcription in progress (2007). See also the article 
	'Bodies Moved from Belleville Area Cemeteries for Interment in 
	Green Mount Cemetery (Non-sectarian)' in the cited article below.

(5) Valhalla Cemetery opened in 1931.  
	1406 S. 59th Street
	Belleville, IL 62223. Phone (618) 233-3110.  
	Give name and they may provide information.  
	More data available for recent burials.  No charge.

(6) Walnut Hill Cemetery on this site (partial).  Write 
	Walnut Hill Cemetery Office
	City Hall
	101 South Illinois Street
	Belleville, IL  62220.  
	Burials are indexed at the  BPL in the 'St. Clair County Burial' cardfile. 
	Photocopies of the Lot Cards, and the sexton’s books (microfilmed at the archives desk) 
	are also at the Belleville Public Library.

(7) Lenzburg Township Cemeteries are published in Dutch Hill Prairie History, revised  2005 (available from SCCGS).  
	                      

(8) Caseyville Cemetery indexed by lot and individual grave.  
	For information contact SCCGS Cemetery Chairman, Martha Mae Schmidt, 
	c/o SCCGS address above, - OR - 
	Caseyville Cemetery Assn.
	c/o 206 Cove Court
	Caseyville, Illinois 62232

(9) Mt. Carmel, 10101 W. Main Street, Belleville, Illinois 62223; Phone (618) 397-0181.

(10) Sunset Garden of Memory, 3230 Cemetery Rd., Millstadt, Illinois 62260

(11) College Hill Cemetery 
	c/o Lebanon City Hall
	312 West St. Louis Road,
	Lebanon, Illinois 62254     Phone: (618) 537-4976

(12) St. Philip's Cemetery
	See also the church's Liber Defunctorum (book of deaths), 
	on microfilm at the Belleville Public Library

'Belleville's Early Cemeteries: 
	Green Mount, Harrison, Old Burial Ground, Poor Farm, and Walnut Hill,' 
	SCCGS 	Quarterly 28:3, 2005, $6.00.
'Bodies Moved from Belleville Area Cemeteries 
	for Interment in Green Mount Cemetery (Non-sectarian),' 
	SCCGS Quarterly 28:3, 2005, $6.00.
'Cemeteries Once Occupied Now Valuable Collinsville Avenue Sites in E St. Louis'  
	E St. Louis Newspaper, 21 Feb. 1921  see SCCGSQ Vol. 16 #2
'Cemetery Information' in 1881 Edition of  St. Clair County History by Brink: 
	Pages 302-303,161,252-253,254,323, & 329.
'Cemeteries E St. Louis' 1907 History of St. Clair County by Wilderman Pg 764
Excerpt from Adam W. Snyder & His Period in Illinois History 1817-1842 
	 by John Francis Snyder MD. 1906  Pg 162 & 163
'Laughter of Children will replace Quiet of Cemetery'. [Old St. Henry's Cemetery at 2900 State St. 
	being moved to Holy Cross]  Belleville newspaper of 7 July 1925.
'Expiration of time limit provided by Ordinance vacating property [St. Henry's Cemetery in 
	State St. between 29th and 30th St. being removed to Holy Cross Cemetery near 
	French Village].  Belleville Newspaper 28 Oct 1925.
[Green Mount Cemetery.]  Belleville Weekly Advocate 9 Feb 1883 p. 5 Col 3.
'Defends Ancient Grant  Old City Cemetery Title in Dispute' [Lake Ave & 15th St.] 
	E St. Louis Daily Journal 24 Dec 1908?
'St. Mary's Hospital being removed to site now occupied by St. Henry's Cemetery'  
	Belleville newspaper 5 Aug 1907.
'Brooklyn Cemetery located near the north side of National Stockyards' 
	Belleville News Democrat 3 Oct 1994
'Colored People Secure Cemetery just south of E St. Louis to be known at Washington Cemetery'.  
	[being part of the southerly part of Lots 69a & 72 Commonfields of Cahokia] 
	Daily Journal E St. Louis 18 Mar 1920
'Old Burial Ground' [across street from St. Peters Cathedral] 
	Belleville Weekly Advocate 6 June 1865  see reprint SCCGSQ Vol. 10 #1
'Obliterating an Old Land-Mark' [Cemetery on South Race St near St. Peter's Cathedral] 
	Belleville Weekly Advocate  15 Mar 1889  see reprint SCCGSQ Vol. 9 #3
''Found Petrified Body'  [2nd & Lynch Ave E St. Louis] Belleville Daily Advocate 
	5 Feb 1906
'Unearthed Vault 1906' [Harrison Cem East B & Douglas Ave Belleville] 
	Belleville Daily Advocate 12 July 1906
'Holy Family Cemetery'  Belleville Daily Advocate 17 Oct 1933  see SCCGSQ Vol. 10 #1
'Holy Family Cemetery'  Belleville Daily Advocate 23 Sept 1903  see SCCGSQ Vol. 10 #1
'Ogle Cemetery'  [Southern Drive & Northern Drive south west of Belleville] 
	Belleville News Democrat  1968
'Bodies moved from Old Cemetery on Peck Farm to Shiloh' [Rock Springs Cemetery] 
	Belleville Daily Advocate 23 Jan 1922.
'Mysterious Tombstones'  [Civil War Stones]  see SCCGSQ Vol. 12 #2
'Stray Tombstones'  (Brannum & Debro) see SCCGSQ Vol. 8 #2 Pg 101

Township and Range Descriptions (all Third Principal Meridian)

Canteen-Stites Township 2 North, Range 10-9 West, 3rd P.M.
Caseyville Township 2 North, Range 8 West
Centreville Township 1-2 North, Range 10-9 West
Engelmann Township 1 South, Range 6 West
Fayetteville Township 2 South, Range 6 West
Freeburg Township 1 South, Range 7 West
Lebanon Township 2 North, Range 6 West
Lenzburg Township 3 South, Range 7 West
Marissa Township 3 South, Range 6 West
West Part Mascoutah Township 1 North, Range 7 West
East Part Mascoutah Township 1 North, Range 6 West
North Part Millstadt Township 1 South, Range 9 West
South Part Millstadt Township 2 South, Range 9 West
New Athens Township 2 South, Range 7 West
O'Fallon Township 2 North, Range 7 West
Prairie du Long Township 2 South, Range 8 West
Shiloh Valley Township 1 North, Range 7 West
Smithton Township 1 South, Range 8 West
Stookey Township 1 North, Range 9 West
North Part Sugar Loaf Township 1 North, Range 11-10 West
South Part Sugar Loaf Township 1 South, Range 10 West