Friendship Cemetery & Mourning Cemetery
McDonough County, Illinois
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1878, by S. J. Clarke, page 543 Friendship M. E. Church.--This is one of the oldest religious organizations in the county, the society having been organized in 1833, by Rev. Cord, a missionary. The original members were Robert and Nancy Cook, Mrs. Penny and daughter, Esther Hunt, Malinda Hunt, Mr. Justice and wife, John and James Hammer, John and Nancy Kirk, John and Margaret Lyon. The following are among those serving as pastors: Revs. Cord, Carter, Levi Spring, Oliver Hindell, Freeborn Haynie, J. P. Brooks, Chauncy Hobart. Of late years this appointment has been connected with the Blandinsville work, but is at present with the Colchester work. Meetings were held first, at the residence of John Hunt, now known as the Kirk place, and for many years at the school house, which stood near the present site of the church. The first camp-meeting held in the Military Tract was at Friendship, in 1833. People came from Quincy, Jacksonville, Beardstown, Burlington and other points equally distant. The church building is located on section 5, Tennessee township. It is a good frame structure, thirty feet by forty, and was erected in 1851. The value of church property is $1,500. The present membership is thirty-four. The present officers are: Trustees, A. Roberts, George Mourning, Robert Lyon, John Kirk, Jr., and S. M. Chipman; Steward, A. Roberts; Class Leader, S. M. Chipman. Contribution, $130 per year; average attendance of the Sunday School, 35; contributions $6; Superintendent, William Anderson. |
1885, Continental Historical Co., Springfield, Illinois, pp. 563-564 The cemetery on the northwest quarter of section 5 was laid out by the Friendship organization and is connected with the church at this point, part the ground being deeded in 1874, by John B. Eakel, the balance by Dodson Siebolds, at an early day. The first burial occurred in July, 1839, and was the wife of John Mourning, who came from Kentucky the preceding May. The second body interred was that of an itinerant peddler, who was taken sick at the house of Geo. Derritt, a renter, where he died, during the winter of 1839-40. Another early burial occurred during the year 1840, and was the body of David Brown, a young man, and son of David Brown, Sr.
The west section of the cemetery is also known as the Mourning Cemetery. The above stated year, 1839, does not agree with either Hannah Mourning's tombstone or a Mourning family history. |
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