CERES CEMETERY
Greene County, Illinois
Gazette-Patriot, Carrollton, Ill., Thursday, August 28, 2003, from an article about the "Greene County Days" activities: This one-acre cemetery is located just north of the village of Ceres on Rt. 267 north of Greenefield. The first recorded burial was in 1844. At one time, there was a Grange Hall and a school in Ceres, as well as a small store. The cemetery, includes such surnames as Curtis, Harmon, Herron, Newingham, Phillips, Sorrells, Spencer, Strowmatt, Warrolls and Redman. Buried here are Civil War veteran Rev. Joseph Redman and his wife, who came from Virginia by way of Kentucky and Indiana, and who raised eight children in Greene County."
This neglected and abandoned Greene County cemetery is in Athensville Township and is slightly less than 1 mile south of the Morgan-Greene County line. The brushy burial site is in Section 4 of Township 12 N, Range 10 W. Ceres Cemetery is west of U.S. Highway 67 and is on a hill south of Lick Creek.Note: Two soldiers are listed for this cemetery by the Illinois Veterans Commission in "Honor Roll for Greene County, Illinois", 1956.
Sorrells, William, Civil War Pvt. Co. B, 10th Ill. Inf., died 2 Feb 1922
Sorrells, Jabez, Civil War Pvt. Co. K, 140 Ill. Inf., died 17 Nov 1908.
The photographs included above and linked to names in the listing below were provided by Allen Handing who took them on 25 March 2007. Thanks
Allen for sharing your photographs.
| Name | Born | Died | Age | Additional Inscription/Information |
| CURTIS, Infant | Dau of Harry & Opal Phillips Curtis | |||
| HARMON, Lewis | 20 Dec 1945 | 44y | ||
| HERRON, Sarah (Worrall) | 1 Aug 1884 | 8 Aug 1924 | Her grave is unmarked. She was a daughter of | |
| native Zahus Worrall and Winchester, IL native | ||||
| NEWINGHAM, Hiram N. | (15 Oct) 1842 | Elizabeth Lawson Worrall | ||
| NEWINGHAM, Maria | 1 Oct 1851 | 2 May 1910 | 58y?m19d | Wife of Hiram N. Newingham |
| PHILLIPS, Edna Christena | 27 Feb 1919 | 20 Feb 1924 | (Dau of Wm. & Etta Phillips) | |
| PHILLIPS, Opal | 13y | |||
| REDMAN, John | 1805 | 22 Oct 1844 | 39y7m | |
| REDMAN, Joseph, Rev. | 1776 | 21 Jan 1854 | ||
| REDMAN, Nancy | 1780 | 13 Sep 1853 | ||
| SORRELLS, Margaret | Wife of Wm. Sorrells. No stone here for her, but it | |||
| is believed she died in the 1870s or 1880s and was | ||||
| buried here. | ||||
| SORRELLS, William | 2 Feb 1922 | Co. B, 10th Ill. Inf. | ||
| SPENCER, Margaret | 14 Nov 1818 | 24 Feb 1911 | 93y3m10d | |
| STROWMATT, Ann E. | 1828 | 1910 | His Wife (Wife of John Strowmatt) | |
| STROWMATT, Barbara Jean | 1932 | (Feb) 1932 | (Inf dau of Lee & Leona Elliott Strowmatt) | |
| STROWMATT, John | 1830 | 1912 | ||
| WORRALL, Elizabeth | 1848 | 1922 | (Wife of Jacob Worrall) | |
| WORRALL, Jabus | (17 Nov 1908) | Co. K. 14th Ill. Inf. | ||
| WORRALL, David | Sep 1912 | From the Jacksonville Daily Journal of Friday, | ||
| Sept. 30, 1912: FUNERALS - WORRALL: The | ||||
| funeral services of David Worrall were conducted | ||||
| from his late home in Ceres, at 2 o'clock Thursday | ||||
| afternoon, in charge of Rev. Benjamin Johnson, | ||||
| pastor of the Baptist Church of Roodhouse. Music | ||||
| was furnished by the congregation and flowers were | ||||
| cared for by Mrs. Anna Angelo. Interment was made | ||||
| in the Ceres Cemetery and bearers were old soldiers. | ||||
| (No stone found for this burial) | ||||