The
Cemeteries of Brown County book is
currently the only cemetery record that the public has free access to. Several
years ago, several dedicated Brown County citizens collected all the burial
records and compiled them in the book. They also visited all of the cemeteries
and read the headstones that existed were still readable. You may write the
County Clerk’s Office to see if they can give you someone to check the records,
but they will most likely look in the book and not the actual records.
The
County Clerk can be contacted:
Brown County Clerk
Courthouse
Bldg
200 West Court, Rm 4
Mt. Sterling, IL 62353
(217)
773-3421
I’m
guessing that by Brown County Cemetery, you mean Mt Sterling City Cemetery.
That’s where William and Nancy are buried. There are 11 people listed in several
different cemeteries who have the surname ‘Dean’. I could send them all to you.
You are probably correct about
where they parents are buried but it’s also possible that they do not show up in
the Brown County burials because they were buried in a nearby county, like Adams
or Schuyler. I’m also guessing that they may have died in the 1870’s. This is
not so long ago in cemetery time that a stone marker would have been lost in the
City Cemetery, but if they were poor and used wood or some other soft material their
markers could have been lost. The City Cemetery appears to have had the most
thorough and complete burial records of all the cemeteries, so it seems unlikely
that they would have been lost that way. This is my logic for suggesting a
look at the nearby county burial records.
Sincerely,
Ken
Huffman
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Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 9:10
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Subject: Cemetery Index
can
you give me the address of the brown co cemetery so that i can write them and
ask if our relatives are buried there with no headstone? found their son
buried there and think his parents are also there with no gravemarker. the
sons name and wife are William M. Dean and Nancy Johnson Dean. thanks for
any help you can give us.