NOTE: This is just a quick list to help out others who are looking for information in Champaign County. The list below is from work I have done from multiple sources. For the cemeteries I actually visited, the GPS reading that I took is listed. If the GPS listed has a (approx) - that means I have not visited the cemetery, and that is around where I guess the cemetery is. The list below may not be 100% correct. Right above this is a link to download the excel version of this spreedsheet to make it easier to work with. Also note that every cemetery I visited, I also took a few "overview" pictures - when I have time, I will add those also.... but lately I've been focusing on Vermilion County Illinois, and again wanted to share this information to hopefully help others.
Also, for the ones I list as "Destroyed" - that does not 100% correct. There was at least 2 in Vermilion County that I thought was destroyed from research I did, but later actually found the cemeteries - which of course were not destroyed... just lost.
| Picture or Info | Cemetery Name (CHAMPAIGN Co.) | Location (short) | Township | MY GPS Reading (means I visited cemetery) | Year Opened | Also Known As | Other Info | |
| Bailey Memorial Cemetery | NW of Tolono | Tolono | 39.9950, -88.27430 | 1938 | Ash Grove or Tolono Grove | |||
| Beckman Cemetery | NE of Thomasboro | Rantoul | 40.26085, -88.09850 | |||||
| Beekman Cemetery | NW - North of Fisher | East Bend | 40.35755, -88.33510 | 1846 | near mile markers 3300N and 600E | |||
| Bethel Methodist Episcopal Cemetery | North of Seymour | Mahomet | 40.14376, -88.45673 | 1863 | Bethel / Harris, Seymour M.E. | (on FAG as Seymour) | ||
| Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery | East of Mahomet | Hensley | 40.21413, -88.26685 | 1874 | German Lutheran | |||
| Brownfield Cemetery | NE of Urbana | Somer | 40.1703, -88.1583 | Old Brownfield | Part of Yearsley Cemetery - SE corner of Yearsley is Brownfield, a private cemetery area. (no signs or markings at cemetery show area) | |||
| Bryant Cemetery | Mahomet | Mahomet | 40.18267, -88.39117 | 1831 | Bryan | |||
| Burris-Hartman Cemetery | South of St. Joseph | Ogden | 40.07760, -87.99442 | 1830s | ||||
| Calvary Catholic Cemetery | NE of Philo | Philo | 40.01193, -88.13786 | 1902 | Mount Calvary | |||
| NOT VISITED | Champaign County Poor Farm Cemetery | see other info | Cunningham | 40.1105, -88.1868 (approx.) | The Poor Farm was located at 1701 E. Main St. in Urbana, with the Cemetery just south of that. Cemetery abandoned in 1932. In 1970, Cemetery was rediscovered by construction - old burial ground with estimated 100 graves moved about 50 feet east of original, north of the sidewalk - remains placed in concrete vaults, with a memorial plaque erected. | |||
| NOT VISITED | Chenowith Cemetery | Kerr | 40.3613, -87.9475 (approx.) | 1856 | ||||
| Clements Cemetery | NE of Urbana | Somer | 40.14473, -88.16267 | 1873 | ||||
| Craw Cemetery | North of Sadorus | Colfax | 39.98307, -88.35806 | 1873 | ||||
| Davis Memorial Cemetery | Pesotum | Pesotum | 39.91234, -88.2700 | Pesotum Cemetery | Previously known as Pesotum Cemetery. In 1924, "Davis Addition" was added. This cemetery is adjacent to St. Joseph Cemetery (Davis on the west, St. Joseph on the East) | |||
| Dunn Cemetery | NE of Urbana | Somer | 40.15317, -88.14364 | Locust Grove Church | ||||
| East Bend Memorial Cemetery | NW - North of Fisher | East Bend | 40.35537, -88.33342 | 1969 | Both sides of road | |||
| East Lawn Burial Park | Urbana | Cunningham | 40.12133, -88.20076 | 1928 | Adjacent to Greenwood (Harvey) Cemetery. East Lawn is on th West, Greenwood is on the East. | |||
| Eden Cemetery | ** In Rantoul** - on gy.com, not sure what name on regular list | 40.31726, -88.15420 | ||||||
| Elmwood Cemetery | Rantoul | 40.31914, -88.16411 | 1868 | |||||
| Fisher Cemetery | East of Mahomet | Hensley | 40.20064, -88.33744 | 1867 | ||||
| Grandview Memorial Cemetery | NW of Champaign | Hensley | 40.16234, -88.31364 | 1947 | ||||
| Greenwood Cemetery | Urbana | Cunningham | 40.1210, -88.1982 | 1870 | Harvey Addition, Harvey Cemetery | Adjacent to East Lawn Cemetery. Harvey is on the East, East lawn on the West. | ||
| NOT VISITED | Gregory Burial Plot | -- no idea -- | Cunningham | 40.1088, -88.2282 (approx.) | John M. Gregory requested to be buried on the University of Illinois grounds - located between Altgeld Hall & the Administration buildings on Wright St. (just east of the intersection w/ John St.) - d. Oct 19, 1898 | Upon his death in Washington D.C., on October 19, 1898, his body
was brought back to the University to lay in state in the rotunda of Altgeld
Hall, before being laid to rest in a vault in Mount Hope cemetery. However, before his death, Gregory had
expressed the wish to be buried on the grounds of the University that had
truly been his life for so many years.
Hence, the following November his body was exhumed to be laid to rest
once again. Even in death, Regent
Gregory was a well-traveled man. The Board of Trustees ordered that his “burial be made in mason work in the neighborhood of a point south of the line of John Street, if projected into the University grounds, and about one hundred feet therefrom [sic], and about midway between University Hall and the west line of the University grounds”, along the path he had walked each afternoon on his way to his house on John Street. |
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| Harwood Chapel Cemetery | Harwood | 40.38655, -88.02202 | Webber | five miles north of Gifford | ||||
| NOT VISITED | Heater Cemetery | "Old Heaton?" | Somer | 40.1730, -88.1572 (approx.) | across the road from the Yearsley Cemetery. | |||
| Holy Sepulchre Cemetery | Harwood | 40.31291, -88.11152 | Saint Malachy or Rantoul Holy Sepulchre or Rantoul Catholic | |||||
| Homer G.A.R. Cemetery | Homer | South Homer | 40.03795, -87.94936 | 1866 | American Legion | |||
| NOT VISITED | Huffman Cemetery | 40.3903, -88.0499 (approx.) | ||||||
| Huls Cemetery (north) | SW of Gifford | Compromise | 40.28623, -88.04058 | 1889 | ||||
| Huls Cemetery (south) | NW of St. Joseph | 40.17612, -88.06785 | 1870 | Stanton Friends, Friends Church | Hulse on FAG | |||
| Huss Chapel Cemetery | North of Sidney | St. Joseph | 40.05999, -88.10413 | 1881 | New Huss | near the mile markers of 1250N and 1900E | ||
| Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery | NW of Broadlands | Ayers | 39.93612, -88.00972 | 1895 | Ayers Lutheran | |||
| Jersey Cemetery | NE of Mahomet | Condit | 40.24509, -88.30747 | 1864 | Jersey Presbyterian | |||
| Jessee Cemetery | NW of Villa Grove | Crittenden | 39.89387, -88.19759 | 1869 | ||||
| NOT VISITED | Knife-Stout Cemetery | NE of Mahomet | Condit | 40.2567, -88.3431 (approx.) | Pusey-Knife | |||
| Koopman Cemetery | NW of Royal | Compromise | 40.22549, -88.00212 | 1880s | Kopmann | |||
| Leal Park | Urbana | Cunningham | 40.11601, -88.21043 | 1903 | Old Urbana | |||
| Lincoln Addition Cemetery | Urbana | Urbana | 40.12898, -88.21826 | 1956 | Woodlawn Addition | |||
| Locust Grove Church Cemetery | Philo | Philo | 40.00413, -88.16291 | Dunn, Ensley (1877)(?), | mile road 1700E in a grove of trees | |||
| Lost Grove Cemetery | SW of Homer | South Homer | 39.99561, -87.99460 | 1859 | ||||
| Ludlow Cemetery | Ludlow | 40.37008, -88.14525 | 1872 | |||||
| Lynn Grove Cemetery | SE of Philo | Sidney | 39.96787, -88.11307 | |||||
| Maplewood Cemetery | Ludlow | 40.33192, -88.14863 | 1870 | |||||
| Middletown Cemetery | Mahomet | Mahomet | 40.19321, -88.40259 | Mahomet or Village | ||||
| Mount Hope Cemetery (Champaign) | Champaign | Urbana | 40.09884, -88.23164 | 1856 | Florda Ave. adjacent to Roselawn - | |||
| Mount Hope Cemetery (Sidney) | Sidney | Sidney | 40.03040, -88.06353 | 1871 | ||||
| Mount Hope Cemetery (Fisher) | NW of Fisher | Brown | 40.38440, -88.41850 | 1874 | ||||
| Mount Olive Cemetery | West of St. Joseph | St. Jospeh | 40.11424, -88.12200 | 1871 | ||||
| Naylor Cemetery | NW - West of Fisher | Newcomb | 40.31048, -88.38503 | United Brethern Church | ||||
| O'Bryan Cemetery | SW of Pesotum | Sadorus | 39.88309, -88.36810 | |||||
| Old Bliss Cemetery | East of Sidney | Sidney | 40.02906, -88.04430 | Bliss | a mile and half east of Sidney, on the northside of Route 15. | |||
| Old Homer Cemetery | North of Homer | South Homer | 40.05487, -87.96135 | 1827 | Dunkard | Eastern Part of Cemetery is known as Dunkard Cemetery | ||
| Old Huss Cemetery | North of Sidney | St. Joseph | 40.05876, -88.07918 | 1831 | ||||
| Patterson Cemetery | South of St. Joseph | St. Joseph | 40.09062, -88.02679 | 1830s | ||||
| Patton Cemetery | Kerr | 40.38178, -87.9.792 | 1884 | |||||
| NOT VISITED | Peters Cemetery | South of St. Joseph | St. Joseph | 40.0761, -88.0246 (approx.) | Thompson | |||
| Phillippe Cemetery | North of Mahomet | Mahomet | 40.22246, -88.35735 | Methodist Episcopal | ||||
| Prairie View Cemetery | West of Savoy | Tolono | 40.05448, -88.29452 | 1874 | ||||
| Rice Cemetery | West of Pesotum | Sadorus | 39.90129, -88.38151 | 1877 | Hixon | |||
| Riverside Cemetery | Mahomet | Mahomet | 40.20053, -88.39487 | 1868 | Davis | |||
| Rock Cemetery | West of Pesotum | Sadorus | 39.91314, -88.36148 | 1879 | Andy Rock | four miles south of the town of Sadorus | ||
| Roselawn Cemetery | Champaign | Champaign | 40.09884, -88.23164 | 1906 | New Mount Hope | adjacent to Mount Hope - Originally called "New Mount Hope Cemetery". Purchased in 1906 from Mt. Hope Cemetery by an independent Cemetery association | ||
| Sadorus Cemetery | SW of Sadorus | Sadorus | 39.95507, -88.35892 | located about one mile southwest of the town of Sadorus | ||||
| Saint Boniface Cemetery | West of Savoy | Colfax | 40.04120, -88.38410 | 1898 | ||||
| Saint Elizabeth Cemetery | SW of Thomasboro | Rantoul | 40.22575, -88.21224 | Immaculate Conception or Thomasboro Catholic | ||||
| Saint John Lutheran | Royal | Ogden | 40.19236, -87.96158 | 1929 | Royal Saint Johns | |||
| Saint Johns Lutheran | NW of Broadlands | Ayers | 39.92170, -88.00668 | 1895 | German Evan Lutheran | |||
| Saint Joseph | West of Sadorus | Sadorus | 39.96625, -88.41744 | 1868 | Ivesdale | |||
| Saint Joseph Cemetery | W of Bongard | Crittenden | 39.92343, -88.12368 | 1892 | Immaculate Conception (Also: Bongard) | Correct name is St. Joseph Cemetery. On FAG as Imac. | ||
| Saint Joseph | Pesotum | Pesotum | 39.91234, -88.2689 | 1907 | This cemetery is adjacent to Davis Memorial Cemetery. (Davis on the west, St. Joseph on the East) | |||
| Saint Lawrence | Compromise | 40.29937, -87.94242 | 1901 | |||||
| Saint Marys | Champaign | Champaign | 40.09271, -88.24302 | Champaign Catholic | ||||
| Saint Marys | East of Pesotum | Crittenden | 39.90787, -88.228773 | 1876 | ||||
| Saint Patrick | Tolono | Tolono | 39.98072, -88.25711 | 1881 | (have St. Mary's as name ?? not sure where I got that from, maybe FAG?) | |||
| Shiloh | North of Mahomet | Newcomb | 40.26054, -88.39664 | |||||
| Stearns | South of Royal | Ogden | 40.16138, -87.97778 | 1850s | ||||
| NOT VISITED | Tomlinson | Kerr | 40.3562, -87.9443 (approx.) | 1841 | Past locked gates/road | |||
| Welles | Compromise | 40.28699, -87.96827 | 1889 | Compromise | ||||
| Willowbrook | NW - Fisher | Condit | 40.30557, -88.34615 | 1899 | ||||
| Woodlawn | Urbana | Urbana | 40.13013, -88.21451 | 1907 | ||||
| Yearsley | NE of Urbana | Somer | 40.17101, -88.1594 | 1895 | Brownfield Cemetery is located in the SE corner of Yearsley. | |||
| destroyed | Bartley | St. Joseph | 40.0837, -88.0377 (approx.) | At one time, around 85 stones - but were buried and farmed over by 1965. There was an old windmill just north of the cemetery and could be seen from the road (not sure if it is still there or not.) | ||||
| destroyed | Battershell | Stanton | 40.2157, -88.1061 (approx.) | no longer visable | ||||
| relocated | Boys Family | Stanton | 40.1498, -88.0322 (approx.) | Cemetery moved to Mount Olive Cemetery | ||||
| destroyed | Cain-Shaefer | Ludlow | 40.3766, -88.1726 (approx.) | farmed over | ||||
| relocated | Capt. Davidson | Tolono | 40.0213, -88.2404 (approx.) | Cemetery moved to Mount Hope in 1908 | ||||
| destroyed | Deadman's Grove | St. Joseph | 40.1258, -88.1224 (approx.) | Possible only 1 person buried here - story is thief in Indiana was on the run, took a rest here as law caught up with him, and hung him here - being buried here also. | ||||
| destroyed | Elizabeth Louks | Tolono | 40.0071, -88.3000 (approx.) | farmed over | ||||
| destroyed | George Peters Family | Somer | 40.1512, -88.2096 (approx.) | Burials about 1866 - now farm field | ||||
| destroyed | Gilliland | Urbana | 40.1397, -88.1392 (approx.) | Brumley | farmed over | |||
| destroyed | Haines Family | Compromise | 40.2286, -87.9500 (approx.) | East of Kopmann Cemetery - 2 graves, now farm field | ||||
| destroyed | Hitz Family | Ludlow | 40.3710, -88.2314 (approx.) | Field - no stones | ||||
| destroyed | Kemp | Tolono | 40.0041, -88.2982 (approx.) | Kemp Children Cemetery | farmed over | |||
| destroyed | Loeffler Family | Ogden | 40.0861, -87.9822 (approx.) | behind a large farm garage on the Wayne Wagner property. 6 burials. In 1930's, was fenced in & marked - no longer. | ||||
| destroyed | Miller | Urbana | 40.1363, -88.1482 (approx.) | farmed over | ||||
| destroyed | Old Adkins | Somer | 40.1879, -88.1843 (approx.) | Richard Allen Timber | Possible 50-200 burials in mid 1800's - no longer | |||
| destroyed | Old Dunkard Church | Urbana | 40.1275, -88.1367 (approx.) | Old Cloyds | Possible 75-100 - stones disapeard by 1890 - first farmed, then residental | |||
| relocated | Old Jewish | Cunningham | 40.1241, -88.2001 (approx.) | North of East Lawn Burial Park - all moved to Mount Hope in Urbana | ||||
| destroyed | Old Somers (1836) | Somer | 40.1670, -88.1701 (approx.) | Before 1860's, contained about 75-150 burials. Area now farmed | ||||
| relocated | Old Tolono | Tolono | 39.9870, -88.2742 (approx.) | Most bodies moved to Ash Grove (Bailey Memorial) | ||||
| destroyed | Peabody | East Bend | 40.3191, -88.3457 (approx.) | After late 1930's, stones removed & farmed over | ||||
| destroyed | Porter-Dwan | St. Jospeh | 40.0850, -88.0543 (approx.) | After late 1930's, stones removed & farmed over. 2-3 burials | ||||
| Unknown Condition | Rinehart | Somer | 40.1499, -88.1665 (approx.) | Old Rinehart | Operated between 1833-1863. Land owner keeps area wooded. Around 1974, 1 stone was found - Cemetery cleaned up by girl scouts at that time | |||
| destroyed | Risinger | St. Joseph | 40.0575, -88.0166 (approx.) | Fenced in with 10-12 stones in 1898. Laster stones removed & farmed over. Some stones found along a fence line. | ||||
| destroyed | Rudicil Place | Sidney | 40.0266, -88.0553 (approx.) | Possible 3 burials - possible 1 moved? Not sure | ||||
| destroyed | Shafer (1837) | Crittenden | 39.9164, -88.1607 (approx.) | Coslet | 6 miles south of Philo. Owner buried the monuments & farmed the land | |||
| destroyed | Smith | Urbana | 40.1157, -88.1833 (approx.) | Stones removed - now part of an intersection | ||||
| destroyed | Sugartree Grove (1876) | Urbana | 40.1208, -88.1615 (approx.) | Brumley | farmed over | |||
| Unknown Condition | Umbenhower (1867) | Sidney | 40.0535, -88.0120 (approx.) | Take 2400E North 1/2 mile till you cross salt fork stream & go up a slight rise of a ridge. Cemetery is about 400 feet from the road to the west & can be accessed only by walking along the field fence row - about 50 burials. | ||||
| destroyed / relocated | Van Matre (1850) | Crittenden | 39.9384, -88.1669 (approx.) | Old Frame | As many as 50-75 burials - neglated for years. Some moved? Farmed over | |||
| destroyed | Van Meter | St. Joseph | 40.1355, -88.0495 (approx.) | Cora Brooks | 5-6 stones at one time. Farmed over | |||
| relocated | William Putnam | Ogden | 40.2221, -87.9456 (approx.) | body moved to Emburry Cemetery (Vermilion Co., IL) | ||||
| ?? | Mennonite (1895) | -- no idea -- | East Bend | |||||
| ?? | Bongard | on FAG, no other info | ||||||
| ?? | Collison | on FAG - Need to move to Verm. Co. | Vermilion County, IL | |||||
| ?? | Fairland Cemetery / Fairland, Illinois | on FAG - Other co? | Douglas County, IL | |||||
| ?? | Nelson | Actually in Douglas Co. | Douglas County, IL | |||||
| ?? | Oak Grove (Tolono?) | on FAG, no other info | ||||||
| ?? | Pleasant Ridge (Allerton) | on FAG, no other info | ||||||
| ?? | RANTOUL | on FAG, no other info | ||||||
| ?? | Saint Josephs (2 extra on Fag - 1 is repeat, other is ??) | |||||||
| ?? | Saint Peters | on FAG, no other info |