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Tazewell County, Illinois
Tazwell County was part of Sangamon County prior to being organized as a county in 1827.  The county then encompassed parts of present-day DeWitt, Livingston, Logan, Mason, McLean and Woodruff counties.  It's present day boundries were not established until 1841.  Tazwell was named for Lyttleton Waller Tazewell, an iminent lawyer, who served in the Virginia house of delegates; was a respresentative from Virginia; a U.S. Senator and became the 27th governor of the state of Virginia.  Robert de LaSalle and 33 fellow explorers became the first white settlers in Illinois, landing their canoes on the eastern bank of the Illinois River near present-day Creve Coeur in January 1680.  Today the junction of Interstates 474 and Route 29 are within a mile or so of the site of the winter refuge they built in the southeast quarter of section one of Pekin Township -- Source: http://www.outfitters.com/illinois/tazewell/
Briggs Cemetery, Tazwell County, Hopedale, IL
Briggs Cemetery is located a few miles northeast of Hopedale, IL in Little Mackinaw Township in Tazwell County.  Map  This small, very well maintained family cemetery was surrounded on three sides by corn fields and a well maintained road which runs along the front of it.  We visited this cemetery in June of 2007 and took the photos shown here.

We do not know if the Briggs buried here are Mary Jane (Briggs) Burton's family.  We do feel there is a good possiblity that all the people buried in this cemetery are related in some way so we are including all of the gravemarkers on this page.
Cemetery Sign
View of cemetery from the road
Ethelbert V. W. Briggs
b. Apr. 27, 1877 -- d. Oct. 27, 1886
Son of W. H. & Mary Briggs
Hannah V. W. Briggs
b. Sept. 14, 1829 -- d. Mar. 2, 1916
Elmira Briggs
b. June 12, 1837 -- d. May 11, 1838
Daughter of W. H. & Louisa Briggs
William H. & Louisa A. Briggs
William b. Oct. 21, 1807 -- d. July 4, 1888
Louisa b. June 24, 1808 -- d. Nov. 20, 1901
Inscription on stone: William born at Rodham, Westchester Co, NY 
"Here lies a honest man"

Lewellyn Hess        b. 1868 -- d.1939
Nannie Smith Hess  b. 1870 -- d.1909
Miriam Hess           b. 1901 -- d.1925
In Memory by Dorothy Hess Strawn DAR #741733

Son of L. D. & N. E. Hess
b. May 7, 1891 -- d. May 7, 1891
His name was not legible
Jacob Hess
d. May 27, 1877
Age was not legible
Phebe wife of Jacob H. Hess
b. abt. Jan. 1846 -- d. Jan. 24, 1871
Age 25 years
Inscription on stone: " God gave - He took - He will restore - He doeth all things well"
Sharon S. Goeken
b. Jan. 4, 1940 -- d. Nov. 3, 2002
Name of living spouse has been removed from stone
Robert E. Hopkins, Jr.
b. Sept. 30, 1913 -- d. Feb. 19, 1994
Name of living spouse has been removed from stone
Linda L. Hopkins
b. June 18, 1957 -- d. July 15, 1983
Daughter of Robert E. & Norma Hopkins

William H. B. & Salome Bollinger McCormick
William b. June 13, 1861 -- d. May 29, 1946
Salome b. June 6, 1891 -- d. Oct. 29, 1974
George B. & Jane E. McCormick
George b. Aug. 29, 1827 -- d. Nov. 17, 1886
U.S. Navy
Jane b. May 18, 1833 -- d. Mar. 28, 1911
(His wife)
Geo. A. McCormick
b. Sept. 3, 1858 -- d. July 20, 1860
G. B. McCormick
U.S. Navy
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