Main St Cemetery

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.

Charles Blair Blodgett, Jr, was the infant son of Charles Blodgett and grandson of noted abolitionist Israel Blodgett and wife Avis Dodge Blodgett. He died the year after his birth.