Pike Township Cemeteries
From History of Madison County, W. H. Beers & Co, Chicago, 1883
There were several family burying-grounds in this township in an early day, as in other townships, and as in every early settled country. The principal ones of this kind were one near the Little Darby, on the Weaver farm, and known as the Weaver Burying-Ground; one on Barron Run, where Mr. Dockum and others of the early settlers of that neighborhood were buried; one on the land of Charles Phellis, Esq., opposite John Weaver's residence; but this is now, like many others, all in open pasture, and nom ark left of its former sacredness; and one on the Guy farm, on Spring Creek, known as the Guy Cemetery. This was first appropriated by Mr. Guy as a family burying-place, and was dedicated to the purpose by the reception of his son, Lewis F., who died November 14, 1843, after which it received the bodies of one or two others, when Mr. Guy deeded it to the Trustees of the township and their successors as a permanent cemetery for general interment of the dead. Subsequently, an addition of one-third of an acre was made, and the whole substantially fenced and the grounds ornamented with trees and shrubbery, constituting it a fit and pleasant depository of the dead.
As the records of Pike Township officials from its organization up to about 1860 have all been either lost or destroyed, we cannot, as we usually do, give the early officers of the township, except those who have served as Justices of the Peace, which we obtained from the records at London, and are as follows: 1815, Nicholas Moore; then from this date up to 1835 no record could be found, but from that on they were as follows: 1835, Jacob Weaver; 1837, William Guy; 1838, Charles Phellis; 1841, William Guy and Charles Phellis; 1843, Matthew Y. Patrick; 1844, Charles Phellis; 1846, Lester Hunt and Matthew Y. Patrick; 1848, John R. Stokes and Henry Burnham; 1850, Robert Guy; 1851, Henry Burnham and L. Keyes; 1854, L. D. Mann and Ebenezer T. Roseberry; 1855-58, Ebenezer T. Roseberry; 1858, L. D. Mann; 1859, John H. Burnham; 1860, Benjamin Taylor; 1861, Gilbert Farrington and L. D. Mann; 1864, L. D. Mann and J. M. Kennedy.
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