Poorhouse and Pauper Burials by the County
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Re: Poorhouse and Pauper Burials by the County
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Posted: 28 Mar 2009 1:29PM GMT |
Classification: Query
A couple of notes here. Depending on where the person lived when they went to the county home to live, when they died their remains were sent back to that township for burial. I have several burials in the Riverside Cemetery at Brook for people from Iroquois Twp. who died at the county home. Additionally, the Doran Cemetery is where many of the indigent residents of the county home were buried when they weren't sent to another township. There is a row along the west side of the cemetery, all of which are unmarked. During dry seasons, you can vividly see the outline of the graves...there are many. Lastly, there is a county home book either at the courthouse or historical society that was a record of residents of the county home for part of the years it was in operation. Occasionally, when one died, the date of death and place of burial was recorded. I discovered some pauper graves at Riverside Cemetery in this manner.