Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Photo added by jmtho1501

Mount Pleasant Cemetery

Also known as Apple Cemetery

Liverpool Township, Fulton County, Illinois, USA

Add cemetery photos

About

  • Get directions 19547 East Nuthatch Road
    Lewistown, IL 61542
    Coordinates: 40.39693, -90.07888
  • Cemetery ID:
  • Additional information

    Follow Route 24 in a southwesterly direction until you pass Little America. If you reach Lewistown, you've gone too far. Turn right on Clark Road (1960E) which will lead you right to the cemetery.

Members have Contributed

Remove Ads

Photos

This cemetery was originally named "Apple" Cemetery after Henry Apple, who gave an acre of land for the burial ground. In later years the name of the church and cemetery was changed to Mt. Pleasant for some unknown reason. When the people of the community incorporated the cemetery and learned there was already a cemetery named Mt. Pleasant in the state the old name of Apple Cemetery was used. In the area it is mostly known as Mt. Pleasant.

This cemetery was originally named "Apple" Cemetery after Henry Apple, who gave an acre of land for the burial ground. In later years the name of the church and cemetery was changed to Mt. Pleasant for some unknown reason. When the people of the community incorporated the cemetery and learned there was already a cemetery named Mt. Pleasant in the state the old name of Apple Cemetery was used. In the area it is mostly known as Mt. Pleasant.

Nearby cemeteries

Salem-Wilcoxen Cemetery

Bryant, Fulton County, Illinois, USA

  • 430
  • 80%
  • 5%
3 mi
Saint Mary's Cemetery

Lewistown, Fulton County, Illinois, USA

  • 252
  • 79%
  • 0%
3.4 mi
Liverpool Cemetery

Liverpool, Fulton County, Illinois, USA

  • 292
  • 60%
  • 22%
3.7 mi
Dickson Mounds State Museum

Lewistown, Fulton County, Illinois, USA

  • 0
  • 0%
  • 0%
3.8 mi
  • Added: 13 May 2007
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2216952