Joy Cemetery
NW 1/4, Section 4, T15N, R11W
This cemetery no longer exists, but was in the Northwest quarter of Section 4, of Township 15N, Range 11W, about seven miles northwest of Jacksonville, on what is commonly known as Joy Prairie. Much information about the Joy family can be found by referring to the several Morgan County history books which have been published. However, a news item published on page 12 of the Jacksonville Courier of thursday, Aug. 21, 1930, is most unlikely to be found even by the most diligent researcher. John Power of the Jacksonville Journal-Courier news staff found the news item in 1980 and it appeared in part as follows:
EIGHTEEN BODIES MOVED FROM JOY CEMETERY HERE.
Bury Remains Taken From Abandoned Family Plot to Diamond Grove - - - Take Three to Winchester.
"Eighteen bodies were interred yesterday in thirteen graves in Diamond Grove cemetery having been removed from the old Joy cemetery on the Lyman F. Joy farm northwest of the city. The remains were disinterred Tuesday and brought to Diamond Grove and placed in the mausoleum overnight. Three bodies were removed to the Winchester Cemetery. The old cemetery, where the first body was buried in 1839 and the last in 1904, is being abandoned. A large stone and small individual markers will mark the family plot in Diamond Grove. Some of the bodies were in a good state of preservation, while others had to be moved most carefully."
The reburials are now in a large grouping in Section L of Diamond Grove Cemetery, just east of the large area used for burials of the residents of the Illinois (now Barton W. Stone) Christian Home. Modern tombstones replace the markers that were in the original Joy Cemetery. The list of burials given here is reconstructed by Robert W. Dalton from the August 21, 1930 Jacksonville Courier news story, the tombstones in Diamond Grove Cemetery and other available sources.
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Additional Inscriptions/Information |
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| DUNBAUGH, Clara |
1821 |
1862 |
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| DUNBAUGH, Wallace |
1851 |
1853 |
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| JOY, Angelica (Haseltine) - (Obit) |
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9 Apr 1892 |
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| JOY, Arthur Bigger |
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12 Apr 1852 |
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Twin of Lyman F. & Angelica Joy |
| JOY, Clarence |
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Inf son of John Pickering & Judith P. Joy |
| JOY, Henry |
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1839 |
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(Buried beside John Pickering & Judith Joy in D.G.) |
| JOY, James - (Obit) |
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20 Jul 1878 |
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| JOY, Jane (Bigger) |
(6 Sep) 1823 |
1904 |
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(2nd wife John P. Joy - Dau Robt. & Elizabeth Bigger |
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Married @ Beardstown on Aug. 17, 1853) |
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| JOY, John Pickering - (Obit) |
17 May 1806 |
18 Feb 1879 |
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| JOY, John Pickering |
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12 Apr 1852 |
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Twin son of Lyman Frederick & angelica H. Joy |
| JOY, Judith P.
(Batchelder) |
14 Aug 1805 |
9 Jan 1849 |
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(Married John P. Joy in N.H.) |
| JOY, Susan E. |
1810 |
1852 |
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(Susan is buried in a family grouping with Jane B., |
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Walter and Clarence Joy in Diamond Grove Cem.) |
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| JOY, Walter |
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Inf son of John Pickering & Judith Joy |
| JOY, Walter Crafts |
1869 |
1889 |
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(Son of Lyman F. & Angelica Hazeltine Joy) |
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| KIRKPATRICK, Beryl |
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Child of H.B. Kirkpatrick |
| KIRKPATRICK, Dean |
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Child of H.B. Kirkpatrick |
| KIRKPATRICK, Miss |
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Sister of H.B. Kirkpatrick |
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(The following paragraph was published in the Jackson- |
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ville Courier of Thursday, Aug. 21, 1930, regarding the |
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removal of bodies from Joy Cemetery. "The three |
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bodies which were removed to Winchester were |
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members of the H.B. Kirkpatrick family and had been |
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buried for forty years. They were the remains of |
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Beryl & Dean Kirkpatrick, children of H.B.
Kirkpatrick, |
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and his sister, Miss Kirkpatrick. These bodies were |
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buried this week in the Winchester cemetery, where |
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other members of the family lie.) |
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| PARSONS, Sarah B. |
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5 Sep 1868 |
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| PARSONS, Sarah Lizzie |
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1861 |
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Dau of Sarah B. Parsons |
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| SWAN, Charlotte |
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2 Dec 1850 |
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Inf dau of Mariah L. Swan |
| SWAN, Helen |
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15 Oct 1845 |
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Inf dau of Mariah L. Swan |
| SWAN, Mariah L. |
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26 Aug 1852 |
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