Messerer Cemetery road. In the town of Frederick on Illinois route 100, go northwest on Market Street (which curves around to Rushville, may be Main St.) almost two miles to the cemetery sign on the left. see below: combined stone:    Matilda (Ritchey) Lyle and Philnida Farrar Matilda's daughter and son-in-law:    Hannah Crawford (Lyle) Farrar and Jasper P. Farrar children of Hannah & Jasper:    William L. Farrar    Effie and Cora A. Farrar    Adalaska "Addie" (Farrar) Spillers & family    Arthur O. "Pat" Farrar and wife Della       their son Harry C. Farrar and wife Emma additional not photographed or no stones

Matilda (Ritchey) Lyle was the mother of Hannah C. Farrar. Matilda died in Schuyler County and was probably buried in this cemetery. The will of her husband William Lyle (who died in 1879 in Missouri) specified a gravestone should be placed here for his first wife. This was probably done by the Farrar family who used the same design stone for their son William and for Hannah and Jasper. It is then likely that Philnida (should that be Philinda?) Farrar was Jasper's mother though that has not been proven. The stone reads: MATILDA LYLE BORN JAN. 26, 1811 DIED MAR. 21, 1853 PHILNIDA WIFE OF CHESTER FARRER BORN JUNE 10, 1798 DIED JUNE 11, 1851

HANNAH WIFE OF JASPER P. FARRAR BORN JAN. 5, 1830 DIED FEB. 7, 1908. JASPER P. FARRAR BORN AUG. 30, 1827   Beside the fallen stone for Hannah is the Civil War Veteran marker for her husband who died Dec. 16, 1915   JASPER P. FARRAR CO. H. 115 ILL. INF.

WILLIAM L. SON OF J.P. & H.C. FARRAR BORN AUG. 21, 1853 DIED JUNE 22, 1875   The Rushville Times reported that William Farrar, son of Jasper Farrar living near Pleasantview, was accidentally killed while on an excursion train to St. Louis, gotten up for the benefit of the M.E. Church of Ashland, Cass County. William had been working at Philadelphia, a station on the road above Ashland. His body was brought home for burial.

EFFIE BORN MAR. 17, 1870 DIED JUNE 10, 1870 CORA A. BORN NOV. 2, 1874 DIED NOV. 26, 1874 DAUGHTERS OF J.P. & H.C. FARRAR

Addie (Adalaska) Farrar was married to George L. Spillers and they lived in Rushville. Of their four children, only their son Clifford Lee Spillers survived them. All are commemorated with this stone.

Arthur Otto Farrar, also known as Pat, and his wife Della Blodgett Farrar appear to have family left to decorate their grave.

Harry C. Farrar, son of Arthur and Della, was married to Emma T. Dunn

Rural Cemeteries of Schuyler County, Illinois, Frederick Township is available from the Schuyler County Historical Museum in Rushville. From this book we learned we had missed the Webb family stones. Also listed are names of those with NO markers based on obituary and/or death certificate information.

Margaret Boyd Lyle, sister of Hannah C. Farrar and second wife of Marcus D. Webb, her husband and their little daughter are buried in Messerer, but we missed the markers. Their entries in the book are: WEBB, Jennie - d. June 11, 1874 - 1m 3d - d/o M.B. & M.D. Webb      her stone leaning against Marquise Webb stone WEBB, Marquise D. - b. March 5, 1837 Erie Co, PA - d. Jan 27, 1905 St. Louis, MO - 67y 10m 22d      Margaret (Lyle) - b. Jan 5, 1838 - d. July 6, 1913 - 76y 7m 1d -w/o Marquise.

Family members with no stones: BEATTY, Edward - husband of Clara B. Lyle of Indiana, granddaughter of James Lyle and Ann Hall FOSTER, Charles B. - b. Oct 13, 1873 - d. Oct 18, 1936 (dc) (obit)      son of Mary Clarice Farrar and her first husband Frank Foster      & husband of Alice J. Lyle, sister of Clara B. Beaty above JOHNSON, Mary C. (Farrar, Foster) - b. Nov 30, 1851 - d. Apr 13, 1931 - w/o John (dc) (obit)      daughter of Hannah C. & Jasper P. Farrar.