OWINGS CEMETERY, Millstadt, IL
Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives January 27, 2001 by Vicki LePere
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Here are the legible tombstones for "Owings" Cemetery in rural Millstadt, St.
Clair County, Illinois.

Mary M. Leach
  Consort of Drury Leach
  Born 4/15/1823
  Died 7/28/1849

Eliza Ann Leach
  Died 5/20/1839
  at 13 years

Elizabeth Phillips  The dates were not legible on this stone, we found it
broken off
   Born 1781            buried.  It is one of the larger and more elaborate
stones.
   Died 1866

Double stone:
Johnhil Owings  (this first name was very difficult to read, most letters are
worn
 Died 8/19/1862          smooth)
  at 29 yrs 10 m
Mildred R. Owings
  Died 9/6/1862
   aged 29 yrs 5 m's

Sam Hughes
died 1861

John D. Ballard
Born 4/3/1796
Died 12/12/1844

George C. Owings
Born 6/9/1824
Died 4/30/1855

Henry Owings
Born 4/12/1819
Died 1/30/1858

William B. Owings
  Son of Thomas & Rebecca Owings
 Born 4/3/1833
 Died 1/9/1855

Thomas Owings
 Born 11/30/1793
  Died 11/14/1843

In Memory of
Austain Walker
Died 6/13/1851
at 29 years

V       Hinton    (this tombstone is in very bad shape, the first name is not
legible at
Born 1792             all and the last may not be correct.  The dates are
good and
Died 9/4/1852         there was a foot stone with V.H.)


There were many stone markers without any inscription at all, just rocks
really marking graves.