Fairchild Cemetery - Vermilion County Illinois
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Cemetery Name: Fairchild Cemetery Also Known As: Fairchild Cemetery Savanna, Brick Church Cemetery Location: Blount Township, North-West of Danville GPS Location: 40.21723 -87.71154 (link to Google Map) Description: Fairchild Chapel was once located next to this cemetery. Today, this cemetery is now a nature preserve with wild grasses that can grow over 6 feet tall during the summer months. (I revisited in August 2008 and took a few pictures of why you don't visit in the summer - 1 is below, the rest are located on the last page of the picture page). Best time to visit the cemetery is March or early April - after the snow packs down most of the "dead" grass and before the next batch starts to grow. PLEASE NOTE: Even though I visited the cemetery in early April to take my pictures, I was still unable to get a picture of all the stones - some of the stones were so deep in the brush - I could see the stones, but no way without major "yardwork" could I get near those stones (which being a nature preserve, that would not be allowed). This cemetery is in bad shape since it is no longer kept up, some stones down the small hill & creek also. Pictures: I took pictures of [almost] EVERY stone in this cemetery in April 2008 (with some updated pictures August 2008) Link to Pictures: 590 pictures (50 on a page, 12 pages)
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Our family will be at Mann's Chapel in late October to bury my parents' ashes. Plan to make a trip over to the Fairchild Cemetary to show the kids where their great-great-great Fairchild grandparents are buried. Hope we can get to the stones. Last time we tried was several years ago in the late summer...not good timing!
When I drove by there a few weeks ago, there is a gentleman who is trying to make easier access to the stones...he is mashing down the prarie grass around the stones clearing away some brush to get to the markers...so maybe in a few more months you will be able to get in there...my son and I did looking for some family members but there were still a few we couldn't get to yet...maybe soon.
Thanks for the information. I don't live too far from this cemetery, and I did drive by and it looks very good. I will make sure to stop by there soon and do another run through to take photo's of all the stones again. I know there were at least a few stones that I did not have a picture of yet since the brush was so thick, I could see the stone through it... but no way to get to it. Hopefully I will be able to get those photo's.
So once I get that done - I will update this site with another "batch" of new pictures!
This makes me so sad that this cemetery is in this shape.