Cemeteries

 

Abandoned Cemetery	Located in North Otter Township, Section 31, on Wilbur Cherry property; WPA
Anderson	Located in Carlinville Township, Section 11; WPA
Andersonville Georgia National Cemetery	Some Macoupin County residents were buried in this out-of-county cemetery.
Andrew	Located in South Palmyra Township, Section 7; WPA
Anna Roger's Farm	Located in Shaws Point Township, Section 10; Pasture Grave; WPA
Arbuckle	Located in Shipman Township, Section 30; aka Cedar; WPA
Armour	aka Harmony
Asbury	Located in Brighton Township, Section 6, north of Brighton and west of Rt 67; Partial listing
Asbury Mound	Located in Barr Township, Section 20, 4 miles northwest of Hettick SE1/4 of NE1/4 Section 20; aka Asbury Church Cemetery; Partial listing; WPA
Bacon	Located in South Otter Township, Section 30, NW 1/4, NW 1/4, NE 1/4 of Section 30; MCGS Quarterly Newsletter April 2006, Vol. XXXVI No. 4, page 96 has a plat map for the Bacon Cemetery; In 2014 the cemetery was covered with brush; WPA
Baird	aka Wagner
Baird Private	Located in Bunker Hill Township, Section 21, SE 1/4 of NE 1/4 Sec 21 Twp 7 Range 8 W, "on Cook Farm" (per Jill Secoy); "Started about 1850; located off Bunker Hill-Brighton Road near the Old Reservoir, which is about a mile or mile and a half west of Bunker Hill" (per Debbi Geer); WPA
Baptist	Located in Brighton Township, Brighton, east of North Main.
Barnett	aka Elmwood
Behme	Located in Brushy Mound Township, Section 22; Complete listing to Oct 1999; WPA
Ben Biven Family	Located in North Palmyra, Section 22
Benld City	Located in Cahokia Township, Section 31; Partial listing    A-D ,    E-L ,    M-R ,    S-Z ;   WPA - only Veterans
Benld Orthodox	aka Holy Dormition
Bethel Church	Located in Western Mound Township, Section 3; Complete listing to Apr 2006; WPA
Bethel Ridge	Located in Shaws Point Township, Section 23; Partial listing; WPA
Bethlehem Baptist	aka Centerville
Binney	Located in Staunton Township, Section 36
Bishop	Located in Carlinville Township, Section 13
Blevins	Located in Cahokia Township, Section 9, SE1/4 SE1/4; Partial Listing; WPA
Bloomington Grove	"On the bottom of the page of typed names for the above Blue Grass Cemetery is listed one name in the Bloomington Grove Church Cemetery. There is no work sheet to go with it. I list that name below." (per Mary McKenzie); Doss, Thos. J. Civil War Pvt. Co. A 32 Ill. V. Cav.
Bluegrass	aka Horton; Located in North Palmyra Township, Section 14; Partial Listing; WPA
Bohlen	aka McGaughey
Boring Family	Located in Shaws Point Township, Section 17; WPA
Bott Evangelical	Some Macoupin County residents were buried in this out-of-county cemetery. The cemetery is located in Jersey County, near Brighton; WPA
Brayford	aka Barnes, then aka Sanders, now Brayford; Located in Polk Township, Section 22; Possibly complete listing to Nov 1976
Brighton City	Located in Brighton Township; Partial listing; WPA
Bullman	Located Hilyard Township, Section 27, but possibly in Bunker Hill Township, close to the Bethlehem Cemetery; WPA
Bunker Hill City	Located in Bunker Hill Township, Section 23; Partial Listing   A-D ,   E-L ,   M-R ,   S-Z
Calvary	Located in Mt. Olive Township, Section 2; Partial Listing;    A-B     C-D     E-G     H-L     M-Q     R-S     T-Z ;   WPA
Camp - Gehner	aka Gehner - Camp
Cape	Located in Brushy Mound Township, Section 17; WPA
Carlinville City	Located in Carlinville Township, Section 28; Partial listing
Carpenter	aka Elmwood
Carrico	Located in Honey Point Township, Sections 1 & 12; Complete listing
Centerville	aka Bethlehem Baptist Church; aka Hucklebridge; Located in Hillyard Township, Section 34; Complete listing to 2010; WPA
Chapman	Located in Mt. Olive Township, Section 10; Partial listing; WPA
Chapman's Point	aka Oak Grove
Charity Church	Located in Bird Township, Section 14; Partial listing; WPA
Cherry	aka Old Cherry; Located in North Otter Township, Section 31; Possibly complete listing to Jan 1990; WPA
Chesterfield	aka Kirby-Smith; aka Kirby; Located in Chesterfield Township, Section 1; W. Albert Dowland, Chesterfield IL, 618-753-3256, has a plat of the Smith-Kirby. The families of Smith and Kirby originally deeded the ground for the cemetery. He has always heard it called just Kirby; WPA
Chesterfield Gelder	aka Gelder
Chesterfield Methodist	Located in Chesterfield Township, R9W; WPA
Chism	Located in Western Mound Township, Section 31
Clark Family	Located in Gillespie Township, Section 21; Complete listing to 1914
Close	Located in North Otter, Section 33, before destroyed; WPA
Cloud	Located in North Otter, before destroyed
Coff	Located in Gillespie Township, North (per US Geological Survey)
Colored	Located in Shipman Township, before destroyed
Combes	aka Plainview
Cooper	Located in Barr Township, Section 17; WPA
Coops Family	Located in Shaws Point Township, Section 20
Cormack - Powers	Located in Staunton Township, before destroyed; Partial listing
Corr	Located in Honey Point Township, Section 18; Partial listing
County Home	aka Macoupin County Home; aka Pauper; Located in Carlinville Township, Section 16; WPA
Courtney	aka McGhee; aka Womac; aka Indian Cliff; Located in North Otter Township, Section 35; WPA
Crawford	Located in South Palmyra, Section 1; Complete listing to 1955; WPA
Crawford Farm	Located in Cahokia Township, Section 7, on Crawford farm; WPA
Crossland	aka Woods; Located in Western Mound Township, SW1/4 16 or NW1/4 21
Crum	Located in South Palmyra, Section 6; WPA - brief description
Crum - Wills	Located in South Palmyra, Section 6, 2 ½ West, ¾ mile south of Palmyra; WPA
Crypt Von Hess	aka Hess
Davis	Located in Brushy Mound, Section 13 and/or 2; WPA
Dees Family	Located in Mt. Olive Township
Dehne Family	Located in Brighton Township, Section 31; WPA
Denby	Located in South Palmyra, Section 26; WPA
Dews	Located in Western Mound, SW corner SW 1/4 NE 28
Dickerson	Located in Shaws Point Township, Section 31
Ditson	aka Stevenson
Dooley - Mitchell	aka Mitchell
Doss Grave	Located in South Palmyra, Section 1, SW quarter; Doss, Thos. J., Civil War Pvt. Co. A 32 Ill. V. Cav. (per WPA files); [WPA file - location C. War veteran buried on Dylser/Dyker ? farm near Gilbert Moorehead. Lone Grave]; "The story is told that the roads were so bad the day of his funeral they could not make it to the cemetery so they buried him beside the road. He has a government marker and a chain linked to small posts s urrounding the grave." (per MCHS Cemetery book)
Dugger	Located in Carlinville Township, lat 39.2914367 lon -89.8920446
Duncan Henderson	Located in Cahokia Township; Last known burial was in 1867
Eagerville Lake	Located in Cahokia Township
East Scottville	aka Panther Creek
Eddington	Located in Brighton Township, on the Brighton Bunker Hill Road; Only one stone here
Elmwood	aka Carpenter; aka Shaw's Point; aka Barnett; Located in Shaws Point Township, Section 26, 8 miles east on RT 108 and 1/4 mile north on Atwater Rd; Partial listing; WPA
Emerick	aka Meese; Located in Brushy Mound Township; WPA
Etter	Located in South Palmyra Township, Section 16; [WPA location description: East of L. Mosetto ½ mile north, 2 miles N. W. of L. Mossetto]; Last burial Apr 1991
Evangelical Lutheran	Located in Cahokia Township, Section 12, about three and one half miles South and East of Hornsby; WPA
Farrar	aka Frarrar; aka Sinclair; aka Prange ; Located in Cahokia Township, Section 23, SW corner of SW1/4 NW1/4 on Wm Prange Land, 4 1/2 miles SE of Hornsby; WPA
Fishback	Located in Brushy Mound Township, Section 2; "John Sissom found this cemetery in 2000 to have undergone improvements but stones were missing for names mentioned in the cemetery book. Names could have been taken from funeral home records and there may have not been stones, or they could have been vandalized. My guess." (per Gloria Frazier); WPA
Fleming	Located in Hilyard Township, Section 28; "a very small family plot east of Shipman about 2 miles."
Fraley	Located in Hilyard Township, Section 28; WPA
Franzmayer	Located in Mt. Olive Township; Complete to last burial 1853; WPA
Frarrar	aka Farrar
Funderburk	Located in Dorchester Township, Section 34, about 4 miles west of Staunton.; WPA
Gary	Located in Western Mound Township, Section 7
Gehner - Camp	aka Camp - Gehner; Located in Cahokia Township, Section 35, 1/4 of an acre out of the center of the SW, 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of Section 35, T. 8. N. R. 6, on the Gehner farm about 1 1/2 miles north of Mount Olive; WPA
Gelder	Located in Chesterfield Township, Section 10, west of Chesterfield Jim Means; WPA
Gilead Baptist	Located in Barr Township, Section 36; Partial listing
Gillespie Catholic	Located in Cahokia Township, Section 19; WPA
Gillespie City	Located in Cahokia Township, Section 19; Partial listing; WPA
Gilson	Located in Brushy Mound Township, Section 31, abandoned; "On Crays/Crayse land. Plowed up and used for farmland with the only known burial being William C. Crayse. This would have been where William Herrin Crays(e) was buried -- a War of 1812 soldier." (per Linda Arnold)
Girard City	Located in Girard Township; Partial listing
Gleason's Pasture	Located in Bird Township
Goodnight	Located in Bunker Hill Township; "Actually Goodnight Grave (dated 1840) located on the Willis Wolff property (2003), which is on the Catholic Springs Road; from IL 159 turn east onto Catholic Springs Road at the blue water tower, after crossing the bridge (Paddock Creek) go to the second family dwelling on left (north side of road)" (per Debbi Greer)
Gramery / Kohm	Located in Bird Township
Grey Family Plot	Located in Shaws Point, Section 29; WPA
Gulick - Combes	aka Plainview
Hacke	aka Spanish Needle; Located in Brushy Mound Township, Section 20; Last burial Apr 2003
Hand	aka Mize
Handlin	Located in Chesterfield Township, Section 18, before destroyed
Hannon	Located in Virden Township
Harlan	Located in Gillespie Township, Section 11
Harmony	aka Armour; Located in Hilyard Township, Section 6, NW1/4 NW1/4; Complete listing; WPA
Hayward	Located in Chesterfield Township, Section 18
Headwoodriver	Located in Bunker Hill Township, Section 33, NW1/4 SW1/4; WPA
Henderson	Located in Barr Township, Section 16, about 3/4 mile south of Barr's Store and 1 miles East in a pasture, abandoned; Nathaniel Henderson's wife Martha died 11 May 1850 and appears to be the oldest burial listed by WPA in 1939.
Henry Schmidt Farm	Located in Nilwood Township, Section 34; WPA
Hess	aka Crypt Von Hess; Located in South Palmyra Township, Section 29, "close to L. Mosetto"; WPA
Hettick City	Located in South Palmyra Township, Section 31; Complete listing thru 2007
Hettick Point	Located in Scottville Township, Section 27; Partial listing
Hickory Grove	aka Joiner
Hilyard	Located in Hilyard Township, Section 22
Hodges	Located in South Palmyra Township, Section 28
Hogan	Located in North Palmyra Township, Section 15
Holliday Family	Located in Western Mound Township, Section 28
Hollingsworth	aka Liscom; Located in North Palmyra Township, Section 29, "2 mi. N. W. Palmyra – Clarence Grimmett farm" (per WPA); Partial listing
Holy Cross - newer	Located in Cahokia Township, Section 19; Complete listing of the newer cemetery
Holy Cross - older	Located in Cahokia Township, Section 15
Holy Dormition	aka Benld Greek Orthodox; aka Theotkos Orthodox ; aka Russian Orthodox Catholic established 1919; Located in Cahokia Township, Section 31, at the south edge of Benld on IL Rte 138 (South Eighth Street); This cemetery appears to be just a part of Benld Cemetery, but actually occupies the northern section, utilizing the entrance to Benld Cemetery.; Complete listing thru Mar 2010; WPA
Holy Trinity	aka Trinity; Located in Mt. Olive Township, Section 11; Complete listing thru Aug 2005; WPA
Howser	Located in Scottville Township, Section 35
Hucklebridge	aka Centerville
Huskey	Located in South Palmyra Township (perGNIS)
Immanuel Lutheran	Located in Mt. Olive Township, Section 2; Complete listing thru 2006; WPA
Indian Cliff	aka Courtney
Joiner	aka Hickory Grove; Located in Bird Township, Section 5; Complete listing
Jonesborough	Located in Brighton Township, about 2 1/2 miles east of Brighton a short distance past the intersection of Brown and Blue Ridge Roads, abandoned
Karnes Union	Located in Cahokia Township, Section 11, NE 1/4 of NW 1/4, 1/2 mile E. of entrance of Kinder Cemetery; WPA
Keller	Located in Western Mound Township, Section 33, Partial listing
Kent Grave	Located in Bird Township, Section 35; only one grave
Killam	Located in South Palmyra, Section 15; WPA
Kinder	aka Oakland; Located in Cahokia Township, Section 11; Partial listing; WPA
Kirby	aka Chesterfield; aka Smith-Kirby
Knowles	Located in Polk Township, Section 24; WPA
Land	Located in Scottville Township, Section 32; Partial listing
Landreth	Located in North Palmyra, Section 6, "2 ½ miles west 2 miles n. Modesto; in Geo. Thompson farm" (per WPA)
Lane - Etter - Wiggins	Located in Bird Township, Section 20; WPA
Lemarr	aka Lemarr Burial Ground; Located in Barr Township, Section 12; Stones were found on the north side of Goshen School in NE1/4 of Sec. 12. No further details.
Liscom	aka Hollingsworth
Little Flock	aka Reno (many Reno family buried here); Located in Shipman Township, Section 16; Complete listing; WPA
Loomis	Located in Chesterfield Township, Section 1; Complete listing thru Mar 2006
Luken	Located in Dorchester Township, Section 6; Complete listing - thru last burial 1936
Lumpkin & Reineke	Located in Bird Township, Section 31; WPA
Macoupin County Home	aka County Home; aka Paupers
Mayfield Memorial Park	Located in Carlinville Township; Partial listing
McGaughey	aka Weeks; aka Bohlen; aka Phelps; Some Macoupin County residents were buried in this out-of-county cemetery.; Located in on Prairietown Road southwest of Staunton, and a part located in Section 11, Omphghent Township, Madison County IL.; Complete listing; Last burial in 1957
McGhee	aka Courtney
McReynolds	Located in Brushy Mound Township, Section 35; WPA
Medora Cemetery	Some Macoupin County residents were buried in this out-of-county cemetery.; Located in Section 36 of Jersey County
Memorial Park	Located in Staunton Township, Section 1; Partial listing; WPA
Metcalf	Located in Barr Township, Section 31; John Leonard, a soldier in the Civil War is buried here as well as some Henderson's. Located on land formerly belonging to Edith Metcalf Orr and Conrady family.
Miles	Located in Brighton Township, Section 5; Complete listing in 2011; WPA
Miller	Located in Barr Township, Section 3, SE 1/4, about 3 miles West of Palmyra, in a pasture off the road; Jacob Miller laid out the cemetery in 1850; Oldest burial is George W. Hawk, who died at the age of 28 on 9 May 1855.; Listed by WPA in 1939.; There is a cemetery board. It is kept in good condition, with burials as late of 1982.
Mitchell	aka Mitchell-Dooley; aka Dooley Mitchell; Located in Brushy Mound Township, Section 24; Partial listing; WPA
Mize	aka Hand; Located in Dorchester Township; Complete listing in 2008; Last burial 2004
Moore	Located in Carlinville Township, Section 24
Moore	Located in Honey Point Township, Section 7; One grave on the William Klaus farm
Moro	Some Macoupin County residents (DORSEYs) were buried in this out-of-county cemetery.
Morrison	Located in Gillespie Township, Section 7; Complete listing in 2006; Last burial 1999
Mt Olive City	Located in Mt. Olive Township, Section 2; Partial listing
Mt Pleasant	aka Piasa
Murphy Family	Located in Western Mound Township, Section 12
New Calvary	Located in Carlinville Township, one mile southeast of Carlinville
Nifong	Located in North Palmyra, Section 7, "2 ½ West Modesto – 1 mi north; farm owned by Grace Wright, N. Palmyra" (per WPA)
Norvell	aka Old Horton; Located in North Palmyra, Section 23; Sam Thompson, Trustee & Dave Loyd, Trustee (per WPA)
Oak Grove	aka Chapman's Point; Located in North Palmyra, Section 12; Partial listing; WPA
Oak Hill	Located in North Palmyra, Section 32; Partial listing
Oakland	aka Kinder
Old Calvary	Located in Carlinville Township, Section 28; Partial listing
Old Gillespie	Located in Chesterfield Township, SE of Chesterfield; WPA
Old Horton	aka Norvell
Old Shipman Community	Located in Hilyard Township, Section 30, before destroyed
Old Sims	Located in North Palmyra Township, Section 7
Old Union	aka Union; Located in North Palmyra, Section 33; Partial listing
ONeal - Terry	Located in North Palmyra Township, Section 34, "in Terry Park East Palmyra" (per WPA)
Panther Creek	aka East Scottville; Located in Scottville Township, Section 14; Partial listing
Pauper	aka County Home; aka Macoupin County Home; When the poor died in Macoupin County they were buried in the Paupers Cemetery, located east of the county fairgrounds.
Peebles	Located in Chesterfield Township, Section 2; Complete Listing to 2010
Phelps	aka McGaughey
Piasa	aka Mt Pleasant; Located in Shipman Township, Section 28; Complete listing; WPA
Plainview	aka Gulick – Combs; Located in Hilyard Township, Section 4
Pleasant Hill	Located in Virden Township, Section 18; WPA
Pleasant Point	aka Union Chapel
Prairie Lawn	Located in Brushy Mound Township, Section 1; Complete listing to Jul 2008
Prange	aka Farrar
Pulliam	Located in North Palmyra Township, Section 4
Raffurty	Located in Polk Township, Section 4
Ramey	Located in Brushy Mound Township, Section 6; WPA
Range	Located in South Palmyra Township, Section 8, "1 mile south 1 mile w. Palmyra; Frank Ritchie farm" (per WPA)
Reader	aka Reeder; Located in Western Mound Township, Section 24
Reeder	aka Reader
Reno	aka Little Flock
Rhoads	Located in Chesterfield Township, Section 32; Partial listing
Rice	Located in Brushy Mound Township, Section 20
Richards	Located in North Otter Township, Section 30, on the Hendley Rees Farm, before destroyed
Richie	aka Ross; Located in South Palmyra Township, Section 8; Partial listing; WPA
Roger's Farm	aka Anna Roger's Farm
Ross	aka Richie
Rural Methodist	Located in Shaws Point Township, Section 29; WPA
Ruther-Panhorst	Located in Staunton Township, at the end of North Hubbard Street; Graves were moved to Memorial Park
Ruyle	Located in Scottville Township, Section 28
Scottville West	Located in Scottville Township, Section 18; Partial listing
Scribner	Located in Brighton Township
Seaton	Located in Shaws Point Township, Section 10; WPA
Sell Family	Located in Bird Township, Section 28; Complete listing; Oldest burial in 1856
Sharp - Berry	Located in Scottville Township, Section 19, before destroyed; "There were a few stones left but were pushed into a stream, catalogued by Edith Pode and Florabell Lott" (per MCHS Book)
Shaw's Point	aka Elmwood
Shiloh Baptist	Located in Bird Township, Section 19; Complete listing, walked in 2007; WPA
Shipman City	Located in Shipman Township, Section 24; Partial listing; WPA
Short Family	Located in Brushy Mound Township, Section 27
Sims	Located in North Palmyra Township, Section 8, "3 mi. n. w. N. Palmyra farm owned by Thos. Hays" (per WPA); Partial listing
Sinclair - Farrar	aka Farrar; aka Frarrar; aka Prange
Small Burial Plot	Located in Brushy Mound Township, Section 10
Smalley	Located in Bunker Hill Township, Section 10; "NW 1/4 sec 10 Twp 7 N Range 8 W pass over double culverts & go up small hill. Turn south at fence row go 1/4 mile to large clump of trees" (per Jill Secoy); "Oldest grave dated 1817; located on Miles Station Road about 1-1/2 miles west of the intersection IL 159 and IL 138" (per Debbi Geer)
Smith - Kirby	aka Chesterfield; aka Kirby
Solomon	Located in Barr Township, Section 13; WPA
Solomon, A. M.	Located Barr Township, Section 14, in the woods, probably a family cemetery, about 1/4 mile from the road; WPA – Old Solomon
Solomon, G. O.	Located in Barr Township, Section 13; WPA
Spanish Needle	aka Hacke
Sparks	Located in Staunton Township, about 1/8 mile past the Staunton Water Tower
Spring Creek	Located in Cahokia Township, Section 18; The cemetery was supposed to have been destroyed to make use of the land for farming. It was located on the back half of the 200 acre plot and consisted of 2 acres. One stone is lying by a porch at a house North of Gillespie. Single stone is that of William Elliot 3 Mar 1823 - 26 Jun 1864.
St Alphonsus	Some Macoupin County residents were buried in this out-of-county cemetery. Located about two miles west of the Brighton City limits in sections 13 and 14 in Jersey County IL
St Catherine's	Located in Western Mound Township, Section 22; WPA
St Denis	Located Shipman Township, Section 25, at the eastern edge of Shipman on IL Rte 16; Marie Goforth-Allen, Secretary of St. Denis Cemetery Association, 620 Lakeview Drive, Shipman, IL 62685, has limited burial records for the cemetery but she is willing to help.
St Mary's	Located in Dorchester Township; Partial Listing
St Michael's	Located in Staunton Township, old cemetery at Memorial Park Cemetery; WPA
Staunton City	Located in Staunton Township, Section 30; Partial listing; WPA
Steidley	aka Old Solomon Steidley; Located in Barr Township, Section 20, 1/4 mile east of Asbury Cemetery; The land was bulldozed for a large pond close to the cemetery and some graves may have been lost and a few may have been moved to Asbury. There are a few remaining stones; WPA
Steidley grave	Located in Barr Township, Section 20, SE1/4 on what was the Walter Baker farm about 1/2 miles south of Asbury Cemetery
Stevenson	aka Ditson; Located in North Otter Township, Section 21, west of Virden
Stewart	Located in Brighton Township, Section 32; WPA
Stewart - Crump	Located in North Otter Township, Section 20, this graveyard has only two burials: Charles Edward Stewart 1759-1833 and his wife, Charity (Crump) Stewart 1763-1838.
Strate	aka Young; aka Thompson
Stults	Located in Barr Township, Section 34; Complete visual in 2006; WPA
Sulphur Springs	Located in Nilwood Township, Section 26; Partial listing
Summerville	Located in Chesterfield Township, Section 31
Thompson	aka Young; aka Strate
Tine - Sawyer	aka West Prairie; Located in Dorchester Township, Section 11; Partial listing; WPA – Tine - Sawyer;  WPA - West Prairie
Trible	Some Macoupin County residents were buried in this out-of-county cemetery.; Located South of Route 16 on 67/111, 1/2 mile south of the junction, turn right and go into Jersey County; Burials of TRIBLES, STEVENS, JONES, WILSON, and others who lived in and around the Piasa area.
Trinity Lutheran	Located in Cahokia Township, Section 11; Complete listing; Last burial in 2003
Two graves	Located in Polk Township, Section 14; Names unknown
Union	aka Old Union
Union Chapel	aka Pleasant Point Camp Ground; Located in North Otter Township, Section 34; Complete listing;    A-C     D-G     H     J-L     M-P     Q-T     V-W     XYZ ;   WPA
Union Miners	Located in Mt. Olive Township, Section 2; Partial listing; WPA
Unknown Cemetery	Located in Cahokia Township, Section 7, on Crawford Farm (per WPA)
Unnamed	Located in Western Mound Township, Section 8, on the Bridgewater farm
Upton	Located in Western Mound Township, Section 15
Vancil - Moffet	Located in North Palmyra Township, Section 4
Virden City	Located in Virden Township, Section 5; Partial listing; WPA
Wagner	aka Baird; aka Wagner – Baird - Dorman; aka Wagoner - Waggoner (per Jim Frank); Located in Hilyard Township, Section 4, 1mile north of Plainview on the Shipman Road then 1/4 mile east on Drew Road; History of Wagner Cem; Complete listing; WPA
Wayne	Located in Dorchester Township, Section 9; Partial listing
Weatherford Family Burial Ground	Located in Brushy Mound Township, Section 12; WPA
Weeks	aka McGaughey
Weller	Located in South Palmyra Township, Section 23; Partial listing about 10% read; Latest stone read burial in 2002
Welton	Located in South Otter Township, Section 21
West Prairie	aka Tine - Sawyer
Wheeler	Located in Gillespie Township; Wheeler Cemetery Association, Robert Landreth, Box 478, Bunker Hill, IL 62014, Phone 618-585-3003 or 3022; Money and volunteers are needed for mowing and resetting of stones. All checks or money orders for maintenance and repairs should be made out to The Wheeler Cemetery Fund and mailed to Robert Landreth; Inquiries as to individuals buried in the cemetery should be directed to Kathleen Mirabella. Kathleen also has information on ancestors and descendants of many individuals buried in this cemetery.
Wheeler - Huddleston	Located in Gillespie Township
White Family Plot	Located in Bird Township, Section 20; WPA
Wiesemann	Some Macoupin County residents were buried in this out-of-county cemetery; Located in Omphghent Township, Madison County IL
Williams	Located in Honey Point Township, Section 28
Wilson Family	Located in Bird Township, Section 20
Winston	Located in Chesterfield Township, Section 13, S/E1/4 NW1/4, before destroyed; Some stones were moved to the Keller Cemetery
Witt	Located in Barr Township, Section 27; Complete listing in 2006
Witt	Located in Polk Township, Section 33
Womac	aka Courtney
Wood	Located in Bunker Hill Township, Section 31; Complete listing in 2016
Woodburn	Located in Bunker Hill Township, Section 17; Partial listing; WPA
Woodroof	; Located in Cahokia Township, Section 29-8-6, N. W. Corner, one mile Southeast of Gillespie, originally located on the Woodroof farm. (per Mary McKenzie); "No one knows anything about the people who were buried there. There should be 250 graves in this cemetery, but only 35 graves can be distinguished by mounds. It had also been understood that some of the dead had been removed to other cemeteries. Only 1 stone left standing. Others have been broken off and rolled around the burial grounds so you can't tell where the stones belong." (per WPA)
Workman	Location "4 west - 2 miles north. Luther Molin farm" (per WPA)
Yancey	Yancey Cemetery is a part of Brighton City Cemetery, on the northeast corner of Brighton City Cemetery
Young	aka Thompson; aka Strate; Located in North Palmyra Township, Section 34
Yowell	Located in Shaws Point Township, Section 3, two miles east of Standard City; WPA
Zion Lutheran	Located in Carlinville Township, on East Elm Street in Carlinville

Small cemeteries in Macoupin County are maintained usually by descendants of people buried in them. Those cemeteries that are maintained by Robert Landreth and Dennis Stiegemeier are in need of funds and volunteers. Please contact Robert or Dennis if you would like to volunteer to help in the mowing and resetting of stones. Also if you would like to start your own Cemetery Association Robert Landreth is available for advice.

Staunton City Cemetery Committee C/O Dennis Stiegemeier 220 East Pearl Street Staunton, IL 62088

Robert Landreth Box 478 Bunker Hill, IL 62014 Phone 618-585-3003 or 3022

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