The Marshall Cemetery

The Marshall Cemetery, Marshall, Clark County, Illinois on Clarksville Road right off of Highway 40.

The Patterson brothers, Larry and Neal, are the caretakers and are the only reason we found my great-grandparents graves. They were thoughtful and helpful and we appreciated their efforts in our behalf a great deal!

They also do a brilliant job of keeping the cemetery up. They mow nearly everyday! We cleaned some grass shavings off of some graves and cut back some floweredy things that might be rhodendrons and which had overgrown several graves but nothing major, the Patterson's do a great job out there.

I wish there was money to replace or repair the older stones that are being eroded by time and the elements. Marshall has a very small population, about 3,500, and not a great deal of wealth, I think. I guess "in the old days" the families always went out and did the detailed grave cleaning and such but from our own families experience everyone is either dead or moved away and there isn't anyone around to take care of them. That's so sad!