Index to Locations
Frantz Cemetery
Decatur Unknown location
Decatur Fairlawn Cemetery
Decatur Graceland Cemetery
Decatur Greenwood Cemetery
Frantz
Cemetery
Macon County, Illinois
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Charles Martin Borchers (1869-1946) —
also known as Charles M. Borchers —
of Decatur, Macon
County, Ill.
Born in Lockville, Fairfield
County, Ohio, November
18, 1869.
Democrat. Lawyer; mayor
of Decatur, Ill., 1909-11, 1919-23; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 19th District, 1913-15; defeated,
1914, 1930; candidate for Governor of
Illinois, 1924.
Died in Decatur, Macon
County, Ill., December
2, 1946 (age 77 years, 14
days).
Interment at Frantz Cemetery.
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Unknown
Location
Decatur, Macon County, Illinois
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Carl N. Weilepp (d. 1955) —
of Illinois.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Illinois, 1928.
Died in Decatur, Macon
County, Ill., April
16, 1955.
Interment somewhere.
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Fairlawn
Cemetery
Decatur, Macon County, Illinois
Founded 1913
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Thomas Burrows Jack (1872-1936) —
also known as Thomas B. Jack —
of Decatur, Macon
County, Ill.
Born in Decatur, Macon
County, Ill., July 29,
1872.
Democrat. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 19th District, 1918.
Died in 1936
(age about
63 years).
Interment at Fairlawn Cemetery.
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William Francis Calhoun (1844-1929) —
also known as William F. Calhoun —
of Decatur, Macon
County, Ill.
Born in Perry
County, Pa., November
21, 1844.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; dentist;
newspaper
editor; postmaster at Decatur,
Ill., 1897-1913.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died in Decatur, Macon
County, Ill., June 10,
1929 (age 84 years, 201
days).
Interment at Fairlawn Cemetery.
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Samuel Sloan Jack (1836-1909) —
also known as Samuel S. Jack —
of Decatur, Macon
County, Ill.
Born in Westmoreland
County, Pa., October
17, 1836.
Democrat. School
principal; newspaper
publisher; real estate
business; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1875-78; postmaster at Decatur,
Ill., 1887-91.
Presbyterian.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died in Halifax, Nova
Scotia, August
17, 1909 (age 72 years, 304
days).
Interment at Fairlawn Cemetery.
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Graceland
Cemetery
Decatur, Macon County, Illinois
Greenwood
Cemetery
Decatur, Macon County, Illinois
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Rolla Coral McMillen (1880-1961) —
also known as Rolla C. McMillen —
of Decatur, Macon
County, Ill.
Born in Piatt
County, Ill., 1880.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois,
1940;
U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1944-51 (19th District 1944-49,
22nd District 1949-51).
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died in 1961
(age about
81 years).
Interment at Greenwood Cemetery.
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Jesse Hale Moore (1817-1883) —
also known as Jesse H. Moore —
of Illinois.
Born near Lebanon, St. Clair
County, Ill., April
22, 1817.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1869-73; U.S. Consul
in Callao, 1881-83, died in office 1883.
Died, from yellow
fever, in Callao, Peru,
July
11, 1883 (age 66 years, 80
days).
Original interment somewhere in Peru; reinterment at Greenwood Cemetery.
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Isaac Campbell Pugh (1805-1874) —
also known as Isaac C. Pugh —
of Decatur, Macon
County, Ill.
Born in Christian
County, Ky., November
23, 1805.
Republican. Postmaster at Decatur,
Ill., 1831-34, 1871-74; served in the U.S. Army during the Black
Hawk War; served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; colonel in
the Union Army during the Civil War; mayor
of Decatur, Ill., 1868.
Died in Decatur, Macon
County, Ill., November
19, 1874 (age 68 years, 361
days).
Interment at Greenwood Cemetery.
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Bradford Kirk Durfee (1838-1916) —
also known as Bradford K. Durfee —
of Decatur, Macon
County, Ill.
Born in Marshall, Calhoun
County, Mich., March
25, 1838.
Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; real
estate and insurance
business; member of Illinois
state house of representatives 29th District, 1879-83; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1892.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Knights
of Pythias.
Died in Glen Arbor, Leelanau
County, Mich., July 19,
1916 (age 78 years, 116
days).
Interment at Greenwood Cemetery.
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