Biography

This replacement headstone unfortunately has incorrect birth information, probably as a result of misreading the original illegible headstone. Austin Pye was actually born about 1810 in Norfolk, England, the son […]

Alvin was the son of Avah and Abigail Andrews Porter. His parents moved to York Township having come from the east. Upon his marriage to Abigail, they purchase 100 acres

Nathan Alonzo Belden was born Saratoga County, New York in 1819 to Scottish parents Simeon and Caisina Belden. He was a blacksmith by trade. The Belden family was just passing

While James has a headstone here, James is actually not buried in the Main Street Cemetery. While James did buy a plot here, he was actually buried in Parkholm Cemetery

Dr. George S. Otis was born in Wisconsin in 1846. He graduated from the Boston Veterinary College about 1861 and came to Chicago about 1867 to open his practice. He

Henry Lester Hunt was another of the young men from Downers Grove who volunteered to serve in the Civil War. He was in 13th Illinois Infantry. Military records show he

Kate Dixon Oldfield and daughter Alice Kate Oldfield share this same headstone as they died about one month apart from each other. Her husband Richard, who died two decades later,

Richard Oldfield came to Downers Grove in 1847 with parents. As a young man he farmed and was in the butchering business. It was said he lost an arm when

Emma Jane Foster was born in 1846. When she was 33, she married Frank (Francis) Miller, who was 41 at the time. They had no children. Emma and her husband

Francis Miller was born in New York in 1833. Francis was a carpenter and a builder. Later in life at the age of 41, Francis married Emma Jane Foster. Emma