Main St. Cemetery Marker: B6 Five members of the Smith family are buried in Main Street Cemetery. The larger family marker mentions all family members buried here. Sons John and […]
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Main St. Cemetery Marker: B5 We are unsure who was buried in this plot at this time. Perhaps future research will shed more light on this early resident.
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Mary was the wife of an early landowner in Downers Grove, John P. Cotes. She is buried here alongside her husband and two children.
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Main St. Cemetery marker: B2 John P. Cotes Mary Chapin Smith
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Main St. Cemetery Marker: A8 Mary Alzina Pratt Infant Daughter Pratt
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Maint St. Cemetery marker: A10 This obelisk marks the graves of three generations of the Root family: Martin Root [father] Abigail Stearns Root [mother] Amos [son] Albert Sidney Root [grandson, son of
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Main St. Cemetery Marker: A9 Arthur Milo Root Charles Frank Root
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John Stanley arrived in Downers Grove in 1835 with his parents, Dexter and Nancy Stanley. They were the first full family to settle here. John grew up and worked on
Two brothers Arthur Milo Root and Charles Frank Root buried in the Main Street Cemetery now have a stone to mark their graves. The brothers were grandsons of Abigail Stearns
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Two brothers Arthur Milo Root and Charles Frank Root buried in the Main Street Cemetery now have a stone to mark their graves. The brothers were grandsons of Abigail Stearns
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