CHARLESTON In Coles County, you can find evidence of rich history right outside your door.
Sometimes, it even shows up at your door unannounced.
Thats what happened to Donna Stewart, a Coles County Genealogical Society officer and Mound Cemetery office manager.
So I think it’s probably been down in the dirt probably facedown for many years. But it’s in perfect shape other than being broken, Stewart said as she examined a long, flat stone someone left at her cemetery office in Mound Cemetery.
The stone itself isnt ordinary: its a tombstone, dated to nearly 180 years ago. Though the bottom half of the tombstone is gone, the date and the name is clear enough to read, as if its been …
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