Biography

Alice Kate Oldfield and mother Kate Dixon Oldfield share this same headstone as they died about one month apart from each other. Her father Richard Oldfield, who died two decades […]

Catherine Wolff and Mitchell Heintz and were both born in Sessenheim, Alsace, France. They married there on October 26, 1830. The family immigrated with their nine children in the 1850s

John Richard Pye now has a headstone in the Main Street Cemetery. He was one of the first to be buried here in 1856 even though he died in 1852. 

Walter was one of three young children of Michael Sucher and Catherine Wolf buried in this cemetery. Walter shares a headstone with his brother Michael, even though their deaths were

Willie Curtiss is another dear infant buried in the Main Street Cemetery. He died when he was one year-old in 1862. He was the son of Cordelia Lyman and Roswell

Cordelia Lyman married Roswell Otis Curtiss in 1855. She died in 1886 before her husband. She is buried with Roswell and their year-old son Willie .

Ada Jenks Austin was one of the many children listed on old cemetery records buried in the Main Street Cemetery.  She was only about 9 years old when she died.

Henry Carpenter and Martha Blanchard were from New York where they married in 1832. Henry worked as a saddler and harness maker but after letters from Martha’s brother Walter who

Mary was the wife of an early landowner in Downers Grove, John P. Cotes. She is buried here alongside her husband and two children.