2023

The Paige family is represented by 3 generations of family members in the Main Street Cemetery. The father David Paige was born in Royalton Vermont in 1796 and he married […]

Eliza and her husband John K Smith were born in New York and came to Downers Grove Township with their five children sometime after 1841. They farmed in the area.

John K Smith and his wife Eliza were born in New York and came to Downers Grove Township with their five children sometime after 1841. They farmed in the area.

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.