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 sitting in a museum instead of out in the…
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