County Line Cemetery

I've always thought of County Line Cemetery as a family cemetery - probably because we're related to so many people buried in that cemetery. County Line Cemetery sits on the boundary between Franklin and Williamson County, Illinois. The Baptist church is in Williamson, the cemetery in Franklin. The last time I was there was the summer after my grandmother died, when we took a crazy family trip to southern Illinois and visited the cemetery.

When I was younger, my grandmother would go down every year around Memorial Day, and I'd go with her. We'd put flowers on the graves, but I wasn't savvy enough to ask the right questions. It was surely a missed opportunity.

Looking at the list of burials found on Find a Grave, I see tons of relations.

• Armes: related by blood. 
• Beasley: related by marriage, including Elvira Edwards Beasley, my 3rd great-aunt
• Blades: not related, but at least one of them was one of my mom's best friends growing up.
• Butzek: Anthony (1907-1943) and Stella M Edwards (1912-1989)- my maternal grandparents.
• Cardwell: related through marriage
• Davenport: Louisa Lavina Edwards Davenport - another 3rd great aunt
• Edwards: there's a lot of them, including my great-grandfather George Elmus Edwards (1880-1923), two of my grandmother's siblings - Hazel and George Everett, my great-great grandfather, Hugh Richard Edwards (1855-1928) and his wife Martha Rains Edwards (1854-1936), my 3rd great-grandfather Hugh H Edwards (1824-1907) and his wife Mary Hilton Edwards (1825-1894), my great-grandmother Olive Isabelle Pogue Edwards (1893-1959)
• Finney: related by marriage
• Fletcher: related by marriage
• Jordans: related by marriage
• Parker: related by marriage
• Rains: including my 3rd great-grandfather John Rains (1832-1917) and his wife Elizabeth Armes Rains (1832-1900)
• Rotramel: related by marriage
• Summers: related by marriage
• Williams: related by marriage

There are 588 memorials listed on Find a Grave. It is 82% photographed. I can likely look through the other names not listed above and find a connection to each of those people. And that's why it feels like a family cemetery!!

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This week's #52Ancestors prompt is At The Cemetery