August 2023

Mary Cotes Puffer was the daughter of John P and Mary Chapin Cotes. She died just a few months after her brother John in 1864. Mary married Henry Puffer, Jr. […]

John S Cotes was the son of John P and Mary Chapin Cotes. John served in Company B, Illinois 105th Infantry. He died while in service to his country at

John P Cotes sold part of his land for the new railroad built in town in 1864. John was trustee of the Methodist Church in town. He is buried here

John Davey Butler was born in New York, the second child of George Charles Butler and Eliza Davey. His parents were both born in England with their families coming to

Mary Alzina Paige came to Downers Grove when she was just 8 years old. Her family was one of the first to settle in Downers Grove. As an abolitionist, her

Harriet Newell married her second cousin Eldred Thatcher in 1838 in Pennsylvania. Just after the wedding they moved to LaSalle County near Ottawa to take up farming. As the land

Mary and husband Joseph Wells Grannis moved to Downers Grove around 1853 with their first child William John. Two years later she gave birth to a daughter, also named Mary.

Gracie Wells was the daughter of Arvilla Bond and John Manning Wells. Gracie passed away in 1883 at the tender young age of age of 5. In her memory, her

Amy June Wells was the daughter of John Manning Wells and Arvilla Bond Wells. Her father was from England coming to America in 1856 when he was just a young

Arvilla Bond was born in Ohio in 1846. Her father, William Bond, who was a veteran of the War of 1812, married Engelica Woodruff in New York. The family moved