Greenwood Cemetery
606 South Church Street
Decatur Illinois
some facts about the Greenwood:
- On March 3, 1857, the Greenwood Cemetery
Association was established & the cemetery was incorporated into the
city of Decatur
- By the early 1950's, the Cemetery was in very poor condition, due to mismanagement and lack of funds to keep the grounds maintained
- In 1957, ownership and oversight of the Cemetery was given to the City of Decatur and Decatur Township
- The large Greenwood Mausoleum in the heart of the cemetery was built in 1908 and torn down in 1967
- The Cemetery is the final resting place of numerous Civil War soldiers, many of them Confederates in unmarked graves
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| Greenwood Mausoleum, demolished 1967 |
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| Barrackman Steps |
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| Benjamin Schenck, Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor recipient |
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| David Shellabarger, Decatur merchant |
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| Hieronymus Mueller, businessman and inventor |
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| James Millikin, founder of Millikin University |
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| Jaqueline Logan, star of silent motion pictures |
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| Jesse Moore, U.S. Congressman |
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| Lemuel Holland, Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor recipient |
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| Robert Faries, businessman & inventor |
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| Rolla Coral McMillen, U.S. Congressman |
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| Ansel Tupper, Civil War Lieutenant Colonel (Union), killed at Battle of Shiloh |
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| Guy Scovill, businessman & philanthropist |
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| Scovill Tomb, 1953 |
Miscellaneous shots from the Greenwood:
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