| 词条 | Oak Hill Cemetery (Lewistown, Illinois) |
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| name =Oak Hill Cemetery | nrhp_type = | image = Edgar Masters Memorial.jpg | image_size = 200 | caption = Edgar Lee Masters memorial at the south entrance to Oak Hill Cemetery | location= 1000 Blk. N. Main Street, Lewistown, Illinois | coordinates = {{coord|40|24|08|N|90|09|24|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Illinois#USA | added = November 13, 1995 | area = Approximately 30 acres | governing_body = Lewistown Township Cemetery Board | refnum=95001240 }} Oak Hill Cemetery is located in the city of Lewistown, Fulton County, in west central Illinois. It lies along Illinois Route 97 and 100 in the 1000 block of North Main Street.[1] The south part of the cemetery is on the National Register of Historic Places. HistoryThe first cemetery in Lewistown, Illinois, was located on city lot 16, on land donated for this purpose by Ossian M. Ross, the founder of Lewistown.[2] This cemetery was abandoned after a few years due to pressures from commercial development, and many of the bodies were reinterred in what is now Oak Hill Cemetery. The first tract of land in Oak Hill Cemetery was located in what is now the southeast corner and was approximately one acre in size.[3] The second tract of land, north and west of the original section, was deeded to the Lewistown Cemetery Association in 1865 by Reuben R. and Ruth McDowell.[3] Subsequent additions have brought the total size to approximately 30 acres. Only the south portion of the cemetery, an area of approximately 13 acres, is included in the National Register of Historic Places.[3] The first interment in Oak Hill Cemetery was Maria (Ross) Coulter,[4] sister of Lewistown's founder, Ossian Ross. However, the dates of her death and interment are unknown. The earliest date of death on a headstone in Oak Hill Cemetery is 1829, but it is unclear whether that date refers to a new burial or to a body being reinterred from the first cemetery.[2] Oak Hill Cemetery is still in active use. As of 2015, there are more than 5,000 individuals interred there. Among them are some of the early settlers of the Lewistown area, including members of the Beadles, Davidson, Phelps, Ross, and Walker families.[3][5] At age 108 years, Jacob Harwick (1759-1867) was the oldest person buried in the cemetery. Nathaniel Bordwine (1799-1900) is notable as being the only person buried in the cemetery who lived in three centuries. Edgar Lee Masters connectionA walking tour brochure is available from the City of Lewistown that lists the characters in the verse and their counterparts in the cemetery.[7] This brochure also includes a map of the cemetery layout and the location of the gravesites of individuals linked to the Anthology. The gravesites of these individuals are indicated by numbered markers that are located beside the corresponding gravestones and are shaped in the silhouette of Edgar Lee Masters. There are 40 such markers, representing 52 characters from the Anthology (some of the individuals interred in the cemetery correspond to more than one character in the Anthology). However, there is still some uncertainty as to the exact relationship between the individuals interred in the cemetery and the characters in the Spoon River Anthology. According to Masters, 66 of the anthology characters correspond to persons buried in the cemetery.[3] {{multiple image| align = right | direction = horizontal | width= | footer= | width1 = 300 | image1 = Courthouse Columns in the Oak Hill Cemetery.jpg | alt1= | caption1 = Civil War memorial with two sandstone columns from the old Fulton County courthouse. | width2 = 300 | image2 = William Cullen Bryant Memorial.jpg | alt2= | caption2 = William Cullen Bryant memorial. }} Prominent cemetery featuresLocated at the south entry of the cemetery is a memorial to Edgar Lee Masters, highlighting his close relationship to the cemetery. Nearby is a "Looking for Lincoln" exhibit that is devoted to Masters. In a central part of the cemetery there is a Civil War memorial that includes a pair of sandstone columns (the so-called "Lincoln pillars"[2]) that were quarried from the Spoon River bottom. These columns were salvaged from the old Fulton County courthouse (actually, the third courthouse in Lewistown), which was burned by a fire of uncertain origin on December 13, 1894.[8] On separate occasions, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas each gave speeches from between the columns when the columns were in their original location in front of the courthouse.[9] Lincoln's famous "Back to the Declaration of Independence" speech was given there on August 17, 1858.[10] Perhaps the tallest monument in the cemetery is the memorial for William Cullen Bryant. This was not the poet William Cullen Bryant, but a distant relative[11] who was the inspiration for the character "Percy Bysshe Shelley" in the Spoon River Anthology.[6] The memorial consists of a marble shaft that is topped by a statue of a woman. Notable interments
References1. ^{{cite web|title=Oak Hill Cemetery on Google Street View|url=https://www.google.com/maps/@40.401824,-90.15516,3a,75y,296.88h,83.06t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s22cKHEhOxuQTmqkdjIbEsw!2e0|accessdate=3 April 2017}} 2. ^1 2 {{cite journal|last=Bordner|first=Marjorie Rich|date=1991|title=Oak Hill Cemetery in Lewistown|journal=Western Illinois Regional Studies|volume=XIV|issue=2|pages=53–63}} 3. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web|last=Ganyard|first=Lois|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Oak Hill Cemetery|url=http://gis.hpa.state.il.us/pdfs/201029.pdf|publisher=National Park Service|accessdate=February 10, 2015|date=August 1, 1995}} 4. ^{{cite book|author=Harvey Lee Ross|title=The early pioneers and pioneer events of the state of Illinois including personal recollections of the writer, of Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson and Peter Cartwright, together with a brief autobiography of the writer|url= https://archive.org/details/earlypioneerspio00ross|year=1899|location=Chicago|publisher=Eastman Bros.}} 5. ^{{cite book|author=Fulton County Historical Society (Ill.)|title=Cemetery inscriptions of Fulton County, Illinois|year=1971|volume=3|location=Peoria, Ill|publisher=Nationwide Speed Print}} 6. ^1 {{cite book|last1=Masters|first1=Edgar Lee|last2=Hallwas|first2=John E.|title=Spoon River Anthology: an annotated edition|year=1992|location=Urbana, Ill.|publisher=Univ. of Illinois Press.}} 7. ^{{cite web|title=Edgar Lee Masters|url=http://lewistownillinois.org/wp/oak-hill-cemetary|accessdate=3 April 2017}} 8. ^{{cite web|last=Parkinson|first=C. O.|title=The Fulton County Court House Story|url=http://www.9thjudicial.org/Fulton/fultoncourthistory.htm|accessdate=9 April 2015}} 9. ^{{cite book|last=Depler|first=John|title=Favorite columns|chapter=About Oak Hill...|year=1969|location=Canton, Ill|publisher=Mid-County Press.}} 10. ^{{cite web|title=Lewistown History|url=http://www.illinoisancestors.org/fulton/memories/lincolns_visit.html|accessdate=3 April 2017}} 11. ^{{Find a Grave|90535267|William Cullen Bryant}} 12. ^{{Find a Grave|116078154|Don F. Dickson}} 13. ^{{Find a Grave|104105416|William S. Jewell}} External links{{commonscat|Oak Hill Cemetery (Lewistown, Illinois)}}
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