NAF,

 

Can you do my mother a favor? She wants a lookup in the Shelby Co. Cemeteries Book for Tegenkamp. She would greatly appreciate it if you do that. Apparently her messages got deleted. I know she did send a message about the lookup because I got a message about it this afternoon.

 

Chris

HELLO EVERYONE WAS SO GLAD TO FIND AND BECOME A MEMBER. WOULD U DO A LOOK UP FOR ME PLEASE ????   MY GRANDMOTHER AND GRANDFATHER AND SO ON WHERE FROM SHELBYVILLE, ILL  AS WAS MY DAD.  ALL GONE NOW..  THEY ARE BURIED IN SHELBY COUNTY CEM.....  OR SURROUNDING CEM.....  LAST NAMES ARE POLLEY, WESTENHAVER, SEEMS LIKE THEY ARE BURIED IN MOAD OR FRANCER CEMERTARIES...  FROM WHAT I AM TOLD WHERE THEY  ARE BURIED IS SUPPOSE TO BE LIKE A FAMILY LIKE CEMERTARY.....  I WANT TO SAY THANK U FOR YOUR TIME AND HAVE  A GREAT WEEK END.......

I'll be happy to look up your dad and grandparents, but you forgot to give me their full names.

NAF

Jenny, there is indeed a "family" grouping of Polley graves in the Gallagher Chapel Cemetery in Holland Township, Shelby County, IL (located a half-mile west & i mile north of Fancher, IL). However, the three people you are seeking did not have marked graves there in 1971-2, when the cemetery inscriptions were transcribed by Edward H. Boedecker (see his book, Inscriptions of Shelby County, Illinois Cemeteries, Volume II, first pub. 1972 & reprinted in 1980 & 1996). Perhaps your father and grandparents were interred after this cemetery was read; or, according to Mr. Boedecker, "There are quite a few unmarked graves, especially in the west half."

 

There are no Westenhaver graves recorded in Gallagher Chapel Cemetery. The Polleys whose inscriptions were recorded during the reading of Gallagher Chapel Cemetery are listed below, verbatim from Boedecker's book, pp. 31-32:

 

W. A. Polley

May 10, 1833 (no death date)

 

Sarah wife of W. A. Polley

July 12, 1842 - Nov. 21, 1903

 

Minnie B. dau of

W. A. & S. Polley

Aug. 15, 1873 - Dec. 22, 1890

 

Lenard H. son of W. A. & S. Polley

May 11, 1869 - Oct. 14, 1899

 

N. W. (Bill) Polley

1877 - 1958

 

Dora E. Polley

1884 - 1958

 

Harmon Polley

Aug. 21, 1902 - Oct. 19, 1938

God be with you till we meet again

 

Minnie Polley Abraham

Nov. 21, 1916 - Aug. 4, 1965

 

Everett Polley

1899 - 1971

 

Robert D. Polley

Nov. 10, 1956

 

Levurn F. Polley, Illinois Pfc.

Medical Department, World War II

Nov. 23, 1922 - July 29, 1945

 

Laura Polley

Aug. 22, 1870 - Dec. 4, 1934

 

Two next to above, no marks

 

Eddie son of F. & L. Poley

Died July 3, 1903

Aged 5 ds.

 

Mable dau of F. & L. Polley

Died Apr. 6, 1906

Aged 1 yr. 14 ds.

 

Two small stones next to above

No marks

 

There are a few other Polley (or Polly) graves scattered among other cemeteries in other corners of the county, but your father's and/or grandparents' graves aren't listed among them, either. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

Molly, I won't be able to get to it for a few days, but I'd be happy to search for John Pope then. -- NAF

I know you have had a lot of requests for lookups but could you see if there is a Henry Brant in Cumberland county.

 

I don't have a death date, just that his family lived in Cumberland county, Hurricane Precinct on the 1860 US census. I have an estimated birth date as 1819.

 

Then his wife married Elias Anderson December 13, 1866 in Coles county.

 

Thank you for your help,

Marla

Sorry, Molly -- I didn't find John Pope in any of the cemetery transcripts for Shelby County, IL. Nor does he appear in any of the probate record indices for that county. That doesn't necessarily mean that he didn't die in Shelby County, since not all early graves are marked (and not all deaths triggered probate records). However, all I can suggest is checking Fayette County records for him. If his widow remarried there, then his family may have moved there before his death. -- NAF

 

 

 

Will you take a look for me and see if y ou can come up with anything for Elizabeth Potterf Sibbitt. She was the first wife of Thadeus Warsaw Sibbitt. He and second wife Mary Elizabeth Bunncutter Sibbitt are burried at the Tower Hill Cemetery. I have not been able to locate Elizabeth's burrial site yet. Thank you so much..Criss