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[Contributed by Nellie Landon.]
This is an alphabetical list of the names associated with the burials in
Bruner Cemetery, Rio Township.
For a complete record of the
gravestone inscriptions, purchase the publication Cemeteries in Knox County -
Rio Township,
compiled by the Knox County Genealogical Society. See their
Publications List for all of the research materials they have available. You can also support their important
work by becoming a member or sending a financial contribution
to:
KNOX COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
Post Office Box 13
Galesburg, IL 61402-0013
Located Northwest 1/4 of Section 25, Rio Township; 2 miles East
of Route 150 and 3/4 mile North of the Ontario Road.
The Bruner family leased the cemetery (about 1 acre more of less)
known as the 'Bruner Grave Yard' ... said plot of ground containing the
remains of more than 150 persons ... to Knox County. Knox Co. Illinois
Deed Book 218. Filed Jan.18, 1915. The Knox County Board of
Supervisors appropriated funds for a suitable monument for the
heroes buried there. In 1915 a memorial monument surmounted with a
brass cannon was erected North of the cemetery in memory of soldiers
buried there. Later a flag pole also was erected.
When Interstate
Highway 74 was built, 1/4 mile East of the cemetery, the E-W road North
of the cemetery, location of Cannon Monument, was closed. Knox County
moved the big Cannon monument and flagpole to the N-S road, 1/4 mile
West, on the lawn edge of the former Elijah Bruner home; now Richard
Billey farm. The Bruner cemetery can be seen by looking directly East
of the monument 1/4 mile.
Wesley Bruner took care of the cemetery all
of his life. It is still very well kept.
Inscription on the monument
IN MEMORIAM
1765 Adam Bruner 1846
1761 Peter Bruner 1850
Soldiers of Revolutionary War
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J. K. Dickerson, Co. A, 65th Ill. Inf.
Hanson Blake, Co. B, 102nd Ill. Inf.
Michael Young, Co. E, 102nd Ill. Inf.
Solders of Civil War whose graves lie in cemetery to the south
ERECTED BY KNOX CO. 1915
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