Saline County IL Archives Cemeteries.....Hickory Hill Cemetery
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Dianna Williams gammadi1@newwavecomm.net July 19, 2008

Transcribed by Grandma 1859 

This cemetery is the oldest recorded cemetery in the county and is located on Oma Hill. 
It overlooks the State Route #1, not too far from the "Old Slave House", once owned by 
the Crenshaws during the early 1800's.
 
1)William Crenshaw was a soldier and a signer of the Declaration of Independence 

2) It is written on William E Hall tombstone: 

"In Memory of William E Hall born 1814, a man of ability, honor, and integrity, and 
honored by the citizens of this county with their confidence for 10 years as public 
officer, two as sheriff and eight as clerk of the circuit court and assassinated on 
November 11, 1856" 

Equality Township 

Crenshaw    John Hart    1797    1871          wife Sina Taylor
Crenshaw    Sina         1799    1881          w/o John Hart
Crenshaw    Alexander    1829    1834          s/o J & S Crenshaw
Crenshaw    Mary M       1844    1847          d/o Wm J  & A. L  Crenshaw
Crenshaw    Nancy        1824    1826          d/o J & S Crenshaw
Crenshaw    .            .       .             .
Crenshaw    William      1774    1814          w/Mary 
Crenshaw    Mary         1767    1824          h/Wiilliam, d/o Rev Jahn Hart
Huston      Jonathon     1801    1880          .
Morris      John T       1826    1856          s/o John C
Morris      John C       1849    1916          .
Hall        Fannie       1787    1847          consort of  Reason Hall
Taylor      .            .       .             Large monument reads: Father & Mother erected by Ed Taylor
Walters     Judith       1849    1897          w/o W T
Hall        John A       1847    1857          same stone as b/Michael E, sons of John E & Mary
Hall        Michael E    1849    1853          same stone as b/John A, sons of John E & Mary
Hall        Mary         1818    1912          .
Hall        William E    1814    11 Nov 1856   .
Taylor      Giles        .       .             A Revolutionary Soldier (no marker today)

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