Illinois, Quincy, Greenmount Cemetery Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

What is in This Collection?
This collection contains an index to interments, interment worksheets, and burial cards for Greenmount Cemetery in Quincy, Illinois.

What Can These Records Tell Me?
The following information may be found in these records:


 *  Internment Worksheet
 * Name
 * Date of Death
 * Section


 *  Burial Card
 * Name
 * Residence
 * Block, Lot, Description
 * Burials: No:Name of Interred &(Grave Location),Date


 *  Internment Records
 * Name
 * Date of Death
 * Age
 * Place of Internment
 * Location of Grave
 * Cause of Death

How Do I Search This Collection?
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 * Name of the person
 * Approximate date of the event

How Do I Analyze the Results?
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What Do I Do Next?
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I Found the Person I was Looking For, What Now?

 * Add any new information to your records
 * Use the information found in the death records to search for the family in census records
 * Search for an obituary and cemetery records
 * Continue to search the index and records to identify other relatives

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 * Look for variant spellings of the names. You should also look for alias names, nicknames and abbreviated names
 * Search the indexes and records of nearby localities

Research Helps
The following articles will help you research your family in the state of Illinois.
 * Illinois Guided Research
 * Illinois Record Finder
 * Illinois Research Tips and Strategies
 * Step-by-Step Illinois Research, 1880-Present
 * Cemeteries
 * Sexton Records

Other FamilySearch Collections
These collections may have additional materials to help you with your research.

FamilySearch Catalog

 * Interment worksheets; record of interments, 1875-1985; burial cards. Greenmount Cemetery.
 * Quincy Cemetery records and cemetery book, 1838-1847
 * Adams County, Illinois registers of deaths, 1877-1915
 * Adams County, Illinois card index to deaths, 1877-1990

FamilySearch Digital Library

 * Great River Genealogical Society. Greenmount Cemetery (Quincy, Illinois) 3 volumes.
 * prepared by the Historical Records Survey, Division of Professional and Service Projects, Work Progress Administration. Inventory of the county archives of Illinois, no. 1, Adams County (Quincy). Chicago, Illinois : Historical Records Survey, 1939
 * The History of Adams County, Illinois : containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, etc.; a biographical directory of its citizens, war record of its volunteers in the late Rebellion ... portraits of early settlers and prominent men; history of the Northwest, history of Illinois ... etc., etc. Evansville, Indiana : Unigraphic, 1977; Reprint of originial Chicago : Murray, Williamson & Phelps, 1879.

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