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Dillenbeck Cemetery

City of Janesville, Rock County, Wisconsin

Complete photographic transcription

Located on the north side of the city of Janesville on Hwy. 14 west of junction with Hwy. 26, just before junction with Kennedy Rd. (on north side of road; west of Target and off the southwest corner of the Harms Suburu dealership lot)

This cemetery is under the care of the parks department.

Transcribed in July 2001 by Rhonda McNurlan; photographed in October 2001 by Lori Niemuth

Name

Born

Died

Notes
______, _____ [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] 1 Month [illegible]
______, Eddie ----- ----- Our Little Eddie's Gone Home; in fenced in family plot; possibly ZIMMERMAN
_ _ AG_, _____ [Lewis?] ----- ___. 23, 18__ Aged 15 Years; [rest illegible]
DILLENBECK, Henry, Jr. ----- Dec. 11, 18__ Hope; Aged 35 Y. & 5 M.; Died at _____, __ [looks like Alden, MI]; [illegible poem]
DILLENBECK, Solomon ----- Aug. 5, 1861 Son of H. H. & C. DILLENBECK; Aged 19 Y. 6 M.
LEPPER, Anna _. ----- Feb. 2, 1862 Dau. of S. F. & S. LEPPER; Aged 3 Y. & 5 M.; ossw Sylvester F. LEPPER; [illegible poem]; footstone?
LEPPER, Sylvester F. ----- Jan. 12, 1862 In the 28 Year of his age; ossw Anna _. LEPPER
MITCHELL, Byron J. ----- Aug. 3, 1868 Son of E. & _. MITCHELL; Aged 71 Y. 1 M. 20 D.
SHOEMAKER, Anna M. ----- Nov. 22, 186_ [1863 or 1865] Dau. of A. & R. SHOEMAKER; Aged 15 Y. 3 M.
SHOEMAKER, Sarah J. ----- June 6, 1851 Dau. of A. & R. SHOEMAKER; Aged 12 Y. 5 M.
This ZIMMERMAN family plot has its own sign put up by "The Tuckers" which reads:
Remember friend as you walk by
As you now are so once was I
As I am now soon you will be
Prepare for death and follow me.
ZIMMERMAN, Alonzo May 26, 1832 April 30, 1881 [stonemaker: ____, Janesville]
ZIMMERMAN, Nelson ----- Dec. 27, 1864 Aged 26 Y. 3 M. 27 D.; [illegible poem; e-mail me for close-ups]; footstone
ZIMMERMAN, Solomon ----- March 28, 1872 Farewell; Aged 12 Years; [poem] How strange, O God, who rules on high / That I should come so far to die / And leave the friends whom I was bred / To lay my bones with strangers dead.
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