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**** NEW TO SITE - To get around this site, use the link on the left (as in to see Vermilion County Illinois cemeteries - click on Vermilion County under Illinois. There are also books on-line, and other fun stuff - again all to THE LEFT

Below are my "updates" - if I add something to the site (or make another excuse of why nothing new is here) - it will be BELOW. That way if you don't visit the site often, you can easily see what is new... so hopefully you don't miss anything.

May 22, 2010 - I had a fun and have done a lot of learning over the past 2 weekends - being a part of a Cemetery Care and Restoration class and workshop. Up until now, my stance on stones was very "hands off" - I've taken hundred of thousands of pictures of stones - taking a picture of how they are and not doing much of anything to them (other then clearing weeds, or grass clippings or something similar.)

But sooner or later I'm going to start to run out of cemeteries to take pictures of (without driving hours to get to the cemetery), so I can see myself moving more towards cemetery care & repair of local cemeteries, and to take a workshop like this is a great way to learn many of the small things that you need to know. [such as the 1989 Human Skeletal Remains Protection Act applies to older unregistered cemeteries, and protects grave markers also - so in Illinois if you do not obtain a permit from IHPA before doing work on a stone is a class A misdermeanor.] That and other fun things was great things to learn, and I can see myself slowly graduating my picture taking hobby to more of helping stones.

For some pictures of some of the work I was envolved with can be found here: http://coan.biz/cemetery-repair/ (I will hopefully have more pictures & information up on this site once I get the site moved.)

May 13, 2010 - Well I removed my last update since it was just a nice way for me to vent about my hosting company - I'm still in the process of moving all my sites, so soon enough I'll get everything moved so I'm going to try to stop letting the past bother me and move on to the positive future. The main thing - I want my site to be available to all - free - for a long time. I try hard to make my website simple and long lasting. That is I can easily ignore the site (with real life) & the information will still be out here for all to use in their research.

From my last (lost) update - I had to remove my Springhill Cemetery pictures from this hosting company (too many for them to handle so they shut my site down until I removed them) - but they are NOT LOST, and I already temporarly moved them here:

Temporary home for Springhill Cemetery Pictures. (please note the 3 links at the top of the page will send you back to my main site, where you will need to use this link again to get back to the pictures. DO NOT WORRY about bookmarking this or anything since soon enough I hope to get everything back working at the VermilionCounty.info website.

Anyway other then slowly working on moving this website, I've been busy visiting cemeteries, working on internment lists, and real-life activities. Once the weather was nice enough, I started working on taking pictures of Iroquois County cemeteries - about 50 of them complete pictures. I also started to work a little in Champaign county cemeteries getting about 20 cemeteries done with complete pictures. [About 47,335 new pictures for Iroquois (+ 14,329 from Floral Hill that I did at the end of 2009) & about 9,926 pictures for Champaign County.]

In addition to this, I've also re-visited God Acre's cemetery in Vermilion County Illinois along with Sandusky (Indanola) Cemetery and got a lot of pictures.

Also I've been playing around from most of the cemeteries I've visited is to take a quick video "overview" of the cemeteries that I visit. Around 30-60 seconds usually, just to hopefully show people what the cemeteries look like, and I hope to also get those up on this site along with the pictures.

SO FIRST - Get my site moved, all current pictures back up on new hosting site - then I will start adding new pictures - probable start with new Vermilion County Illinois pictures that are not on the site yet, and then continue with all the other pictures.

November 20 , 2009 - Sorry, no updates yet. The place I host this site, Powweb.com (now owned by a company called Endurance) has been giving me hassle about my website. They first warned me that my site was in violation of their TOS, and if I did not fix it they would delete my site. I asked... no, I begged them to let me know WHAT on my site was against the TOS, and they would not tell me - just that I needed to fix it or risk deletion. (WOW - What a way to run a company, tell the customer to GUESS what the problem is, and punish them if they guess wrong.) I would then talk to someone at the place who would look at my site, and tell me everything looked OK so I should be OK - then 2 days later, someone else would issue the threat again. Ugh, what a pain PowWeb.com has been since Endurance bought them out.

FIRST - Don't worry, I have everything on the site backed up. SECOND - I already have a backup site ready to hurry and put the site back up if they do take it down. But I would rather not rush to move it, hopefully they will not remove anything and this winter when I have more time, I can then hopefully move & update the site at that time.

Why haven't I had time to do it yet? Because almost every day that I have had free time, the weather has been GREAT so I've been out taking A LOT of pictures of A LOT of cemeteries. In addition to the ones listed below, here is what else I have ready:

• Vermillion County Indiana Pictures: Bales (322), Bono (1,884), Hall (388), Helts Prairie (3,340), Highland (504), New Hopewell (400), Towbridge (647), and Wimsett (658) [8,000+ more to add to the other 18,000+, so over 26,000 pictures to add]
• Warren County Indiana Pictures: Baltimore (452), Bethel (174), Brier (244), Carbondale (277), County Home (70), Goodwine (398), Gopher Hill (729), Gray (214), Harman (381), Highland (3,410), Hillside (1,559), Hooker (134), Independence (1,571), James (183), Jones (625), Jordan (1,091), Locust Grove (1,726), McCabe (392), Mound (805), Owens (281), Pond Grove (1,324), Quaker (425), Rainsville (1,622), Redwood (542), Robb (276), Rodgers (96), Shankland Hill (475), Upper Mound (909), West Lebanon (6,564), and Woods (113) [so over 27,000+ Warren County pictures to add]
• Iroquois County Illinois Pictures: Amity (1,290), Pineview/Evergreen/County Home (80), and over 1/2 of Floral Hill (8,601 so far)

So you see - over 40,000 pictures taken since June, and add that to the 46,000 I still have to add..... and you have over 80,000 more pictures to put on the site... and I'm not done yet. As long as the snow & rain stays away, I'll be out taking more pictures. But hopefully this winter, the weather will keep me inside & I will be able to update this site.

So keep tuned.... hopefully I will get this site fully updated soon.

June 6 , 2009 - Sorry, I have nothing new to add to this site yet, but that is not because I have not been busy - I've been very busy with this project, mostly out taking tons of new pictures, completing many other cemeteries, and creating internment lists from my pictures. I have not had time yet to sit down and put the new stuff out on this website, but hopefully soon. Some things that are done, and hopefully will be out on the site soon:

• Vermilion County Illinois Pictures: Collison (452), Danville National (11,091), Fairchild (1,089), Hooton (271), Knights Branch (254), Lamb (363), McFarland (593), New Salem (281), Pape Botanical (65), Pleasant Mound (681), Snider (405), Sts Peter Paul (2315), Forse/Force (22), McGee (48), and Sunset (10,423) [total IL Vermilion to add: 28,000+]
• Vermillion County Indiana Pictures: Burson (57), Carmack (159), Chenoweth (356), Harrison (122), Hicks (1,460), Hopewell (1,018), Howards Chapel (291), Johnson (279), Juliet (26), Memorial Chapel (960), Miller (409), Mound (1,058), Old Baptist (73), Old Newport (176), Ricketts (49), Smith (688), Switzer (81), Thomas (4,918), Walnut Hill (55), Dalton (101), Hall (388), Spangler (1,624), Shirley (821), Pisgah (399), Hollingsworth (158), Eugene (2,512), and Highfill (179) [total IN Vermillion to add: 18,000+]

So yea - over 46,000 more picture to add... and as you can tell, I've started to wonder to my next door county VermiLLion county Indiana (2 L's) - and VERY excited about getting pictures of EVERY stone in the 6 cemeteries inside the Newport Chemical Depot, cemeteries that in the past were very hard to visit, and camera's were not allowed because of the sensitive activities that have happened at the Depot in the past. (And want to thank the staff at the Depot which helped me get those pictures - and happy to say that they take good care of the cemeteries, and they are cared for... since I've seen some reports in the past of the cemeteries being very neglected... that is no longer the case.)

Oh, and yes, I did mention I've been working on internment lists from my pictures (names, dates, & picture # for each stone) - some that I have done and will hopefully be out here soon:

• Vermilion County Illinois Internment lists: Allhands, Atherton, Old Atherton, Bethel (ross), Bethel (blount), Bethel (love), and a couple other very small cemeteries
• Vermillion County Indiana Internment lists: [The 6 Newport Depot Cemeteries!] Memorial Chapel, Carmack, Walnut Hill, Juliet, Miller, and Burson .... Again, so excited that I was able to get all the pictures of these cemeteries which have been "unvisitable" for so long, I'm planning to hopefully have both pictures & internment lists out on my site soon.

Making internment lists takes A LONG TIME to do - going through each pictures, trying to read what is on it. Then also when I come up to unreadable stones, sometimes even revisiting the cemetery to see if I can read it better in person... just to make the internment list more complete. So again - keep checking back. Just because there is nothing new out on this site does not mean nothing is being worked on. Thanks for all the kind words people have given me, it is nice to hear from people in which this site has helped.... since that is the whole point of it.

SPECIAL THANKS: I again wanted to thank the people at the Newport Depot which allowed me to visit those cemeteries, along with taking me back to Burson cemetery through 2 locked gates. ALSO, I wanted to thank Dynergy (Illinois Power) staff member who took me back to McGee Cemetery. ALSO, wanted to thank the land owner of Forse/Force cemetery - it was my most interesting trip to a cemetery, standing on the back of a tractor holding on to my camera case, going up & down hills, through heavy mud, forging a creek, about a mile to the cemetery (and back) - all for a few pictures of mostly weeds, a couple foot stones, and old stone base - along with GPS reading... very far above what most would have done to help with my project.

April 21, 2009 - Well I just wanted to make a quick update since it's been 2 months since I last did an update. I haven't added anything new today, but that does not mean I haven't been working on new things. I have already taken pictures of 8 1/2 more cemeteries, along with taking new pictures of Fairchild Cemetery after they have done some "Spring" cleaning there - and I already know I had found a couple stones that were "hidden" before. So over 23,000 more pictures sitting on my computer waiting to be put out here. Not only that, I've been working on new internment lists also. So don't have anything new for the website yet, but it will be here soon.

NEW TO THIS SITE? The left hand side has all the good links. Under "Illinois", you will find Vermilion County where you will find links to each cemetery & the pictures for each cemetery. I will hopefully make the site a little more "user friendly" also - my first goal was to get the information out here. Second goal will be to make it easier to get around to the information.

February 15, 2009 - I have nothing new to add to the site today, but since this site was mentioned in The Commercial-News, in a Joan Griffis genealogy article - I figures I would make a quick update. Since it's been cold & snowing, I haven't done much picture taking in the past month, but I have been working on some internment lists, website general look, more outside of Vermilion County cemetery pages, plus other updates that will hopefully be out on the site soon.

HELP HELP HELP. The point of this website is to get out as much information to others as possible. So if you have additional information about a cemetery, please feel free to visit that cemetery & add a comment for that cemetery. Also, if you have access to old pictures that would be cool to add to the site, and VERY HELPFUL - if you have access to internment lists of a cemetery and would like to share it, please pass it along to me. I'm currently going through my pictures and making a list made from that, but it's slow. [Also only share the internment list if you have made it or it can be shared on this site - I don't want to take someone elses work and put on this site without permission. Some would rather not share their information freely.] Contact me at Vermilioncounty [at] coan.net

Do you have information about any of these cemeteries:

• Can't get to cemeteries: Forse Cemetery, Langley Cemetery, Mcgee Cemetery, Old Collison Cemetery, Pentecost Cemetery, and Sandusky (Indianola) Cemetery
• Can't find cemeteries: Brittingham Family Plot, Kights Family Plot, and Watson Cemetery
• Moved cemeteries: Denmark Cemetery, Old Danville Cemetery, Price Cemetery, and Swain Cemetery
• Destroyed cemeteries: Allen Family Plot, Jones Family Plot, Newell Cemetery, and Ruckman Cemetery
• Unknown cemeteries: Adams Family Plot, Bluegrass Cemetery, Fielder Cemetery, Kerby Family Plot, Larson Cemetery, Manion Family Plot, Martin Family Plot, Middlefork Cemetery, Old Davis Cemetery, Oliphant Cemetery, and Watson Family Plot

Current site stats:

• 99 - Vermilion County Illinois cemeteries with complete pictures of every stone.
• 121,000 - Pictures on this website

Once spring hits (well at least temps of 45 and above with no rain/snow/mud), I will be going after these cemeteries: Brierly, Collison, Danville National, God's Acre, Hooton, Knights Branch, Lamb, Makemson, McFarland, Pape Botanical, Pleasant Mound, St. Peter & Paul, Snider, Snyder / Outten Family, and Sunset. Plus hopefully have some leads on some of the "cant get to" cemeteries like Mcgee, Forse, and others.

Thanks for visiting this site.

January 18, 2009 - Thanks to a person who visited THIS SITE and commented on a cemetery I could not find - I was able to find a cemetery that was lost (well lost to me at least) - Workheiser Cemetery! I was able to visit the cemtery on January 3rd, and took GPS reading for exact map location, along wth pictures of everything. So thank you very much Harold. And if anyone else has additional information about a cemetery - please visit the cemetery page and leave a comment.

• Cemetery added: Workheiser Cemetery

I've also been working on internment lists for a few cemeteries. This task takes a lot of time & work, so when I have time - I will slowly get more done and added to the site.

• Internment lists added: Nicholson Cemetery, Dougherty Cemetery, and Oakwood Cemetery

December 24, 2008 - Merry Christmas! Why Homer Simpson instead of a Christmas icon? Well I was watching the Simpsons Movie while I did this update.

What was updated today - A new internment list for Bethel (Blount) Cemetery in Vermilion County. As I have time, I will try to slowly get some more done. If you have access to any type of internment list that you made and would like to share here - PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let me know. I'm happy to give you credt and such. (just don't go copy the information from another site and call it your own - since I don't want that done to my work, I don't want to have it done for others. Of course if it is your own work, you are free to share it in multiple places including here.

Anyway - Merry Christmas. I'm working on some other cool stuff that I'm not ready to update yet, but hopefully soon.

December 13, 2008 - I have added 7 more cemeteries, and updates for 1 more. Added 12,893 more pictures for new total of: 120,937 pictures. What is interesting about this update is that the FIRST 2 cemeteries I took complete pictures of in March & April 2007 was Johnson & Gundy Cemetery... which because I put those pictures in a different folder on my hard drive, kind of forgot about them until now. Also my last completed cemetery, Parish Cemetery (just after Thanksgiving, November 2008) is in this update. What is interesting is to see how differently I took pictures then compared to now. Vermilion County Illinois Cemeteries Added:

• Danville Lutheran Cemetery, Gundy Cemetery, Johnson Cemetery, Parish Cemetery, Resurrection Cemetery, Rice Cemetery, and Trimmell Cemetery. Have also added updated pictures for McBride Family Plot.

December 8, 2008 - Well I did not add any new cemeteries today, but I've done a few other things, and have some "fun" year-end stats:

• Added "Whats new (Archive)" page - basicly as I add these "what's new" here on the main page, it starts to add up - and I like to keep a record of when I added things - so when I clean up this main page - I will move the older stuff there.
• Added "Site Comments" page - basicly there are now hundreds of pages on this site that allows comments to be placed on them. Since these comments might be helpful to other visitors, this page now lists all the comments & what page they are on.
• Added "Vermilion County - Quick List" page - basicly a quick list of all the cemeteries in the county.
• Added "Vermilion County - Map" page - the old map page has been updated - map with the location of every cemetery on it.

Some fun stats:

• 91 - Cemeteries on site with complete pictures of every stone [107,937 pictures]
• 7 - Cemeteries done, but pictures not on site yet (hopefully in the next week or so)
• 16 - Cemeteries left to do - the ones I know where they are and have access to.
• 11 - Cemeteries that I can't find or don't have access to.
• 12 - Destroyed or moved cemeteries
• 11 - Unknown cemeteries - unknown condition or location
• TOTAL VERMILION COUNTY CEMETERIES: 148 (that I know about!)

HELP NEEDED: Please look below at the October 16th update for a list of cemeteries that I believe are destroyed, unknown location, or a cemetery I don't have access to - if you have additional information about ANY of those - please visit those pages and add a comment to the bottom of the page.

anything older: -Check out the What's New Archive page