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The Emmons Cemetery Site, also known as the Emmons Site, is a Middle Mississippian culture archaeological site located in Kerton Township, Fulton County, Illinois, on the edge of a bluff overlooking the Illinois River to its east. The location was a used as a cemetery and several unique and rare items were found interred with the burials.
He taught school and served as principal. He was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1915 and practiced law in Lewistown, Illinois. In 1917, Cutler served as state's attorney for Fulton County and was a Republican. From 1923 until 1955, Cutler served in the Illinois House of Representatives. Cutler died in a hospital in Peoria, Illinois. [1] [2]
Fulton County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 census, it had a population of 33,609. [1] Its county seat is Lewistown, [2] and the largest city is Canton. Fulton County comprises the Canton, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of the Peoria-Canton, IL Combined Statistical Area.
Ossian M. Ross (August 16, 1790 – January 20, 1837) was a pioneer farmer, stock-raiser, and merchant in Illinois, who served as a major in the War of 1812 and subsequently founded the Illinois towns of Lewistown and Havana, and who also played a prominent role in establishing Fulton and Mason counties in that state.
Location of Fulton County in Illinois. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Fulton County, Illinois. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Fulton County, Illinois, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for ...
Totten Prairie or Totten's Prairie was a small settlement in Cass Township, Fulton County, Illinois, just to the southeast of the present Smithfield, Illinois. [1] [2] It was named after William Totten, who was the first to settle there in 1823. [3] A small cemetery, called Totten Cemetery or Old Totten's Prairie Cemetery, still exists in that ...
Fulton County Sheriff's Department and the Illinois State Conservation Police recovered the body around 6 p.m. July 6.
The first cemetery in Lewistown, Illinois, was located on city lot 16, on land donated for this purpose by Ossian M. Ross, the founder of Lewistown. [2] This cemetery was abandoned after a few years due to pressures from commercial development, and many of the bodies were reinterred in what is now Oak Hill Cemetery.