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                 Gridley Cemetery
         Diamond Lake, Lake County, Illinois
             From: LidaJane@aol.com

Located on IL Route 83, south from Diamond Lake at Oakwood Road, in
grove of trees.  This is a family cemetery, on land once owned by the
Gridley family.  It is surrounded by an iron fence with a locked gate.

Gridley, John
died 8 Apr 1872
aged 90yrs 6mo 12ds.

Seely, Nancy
died 28 Oct 1847
aged 58yrs 2mos 7ds
wife of John Gridley.

Gridley, Elizabeth
died 22 Aug 1848
aged 29yrs 27ds
daughter of John and Nancy Seely
wife of Joseph H. Mason.

Mason, Margaret N.
died 5 Apr 1841
aged 2mos
daughter of Elizabeth and Joseph Mason.

Mason, Joseph Owen
died 27 Aug 1848
aged 7mos 3ds.
son of Elizabeth and Joseph Mason.

Gridley, Elisha
died 7 Jan 1881
aged 63yrs 7mos 14ds.

Hunnewell, Charlotte S.
died 9 Oct 1874
aged 47yrs 21ds
wife of Elisha Gridley

Gridley, Edwin
died 12 Aug 1856
aged 9mos. 13ds.
Son of Elisha and Charlotte Gridley.

Gridley, Charlotte Emma
died 1 Aug 1863
aged 2yrs 27ds.
Daughter of Elisha and Charlotte Gridley.

Gridley, Albert E.
died 21 Sep 1868
aged 1yr 7mos 13ds.
Son of Elisha and Charlotte Gridley.

Gridley, George Newton
Born 1851, died 1931.
Son of Elisha and Charlotte Gridley.
Husband of Annah Bilinski.

Bilinski, Annah
Born 1859, died 1918.

A monument was erected at the cemetery that reads:

GRIDLEY

This monument honors the pioneers JOHN AND NANCY SEELY GRIDLEY, who in 1835,
came from Onondaga, New York, with their sons, Elisha, George, and John and
daughters, Elizabeth, Mary, and Louisa; and on an adjacent tract of several
hundred acres, acquired from the United States Government, built their Log
dwelling.