Cemetery Code:
000001
Minonk Township Cemetery
MapleAvenue
Minonk,
IL
61760
County: Woodford
Grave Rates:
1 grave - $400
updated 04/01/2024
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Phone: 309-706-4321
Email: haleyruestman@yahoo.com
Hours: Sun up to Sun down
Sexton
Haley Ruestman Salz
Board meetings:
Second Monday of every month at Minonk City Hall
Board Members:
Wayne Weber
Arlen Timmerman
Ray Cirks
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Location:
Located at the north end of Maple Avenue
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Rules and Regulations
Anyone wishing to purchase grave sites may do so by contacting the cemetery sexton.
Any number of grave sites may be purchased in any area that is not already sold.
At least 48 hours notice must be given for opening a gravesite or an additional charge will be made for opening, providing a backhoe can get into the area and the weather and ground permit.
Grave openings will be 38" X 96" with a minimum of 17" of dirt on the top. Larger openings will be an extra charge.
The minimum outside container to receive a casket for burial will be a concrete box or its equivalent that will support the ground from sinking.
For State paid for burials, a fiberglass container with a reinforced lid to prevent the ground from sinking will be allowed.
Wooden box casket receptacles and burial of a casket without a receptacle will not be allowed or accepted for burial.
No monuments will be allowed without a foundation.
The cemetery sexton will be the only one allowed to dig and pour monument foundations. | No one will be allowed to dig in the Cemetery except the Sexton.
No one will be allowed to remove dirt from the Sexton's storage pile.
All winter decorations will be removed after March 1st, weather permitting and new ones replaced until after May 1st.
All summer decorations will be removed after September 1st, or sooner if they become faded and unattractive and not replaced until after mowing season.
The cemetery will not be responsible for damage to tombstones.
The Sexton or Cemetery Board will not be responsible for live or artificial flowers damaged by animals or accidentally damaged in mowing or theft.
Live flowers must be planted in a dug away area made square with the monument and close to the monument for easy mowing.
Live flowers will be mowed off if weeds are permitted to grow up into them. The sexton will not care for live plants.
No trees, evergreens, or shrubs may be planted without the permission of the Cemetery Board.
When trimming bushes for digging to plant flowers you are expected to put all debris in the proper containers. | No glass or pottery type container will be allowed because of breakage and safety.
Keep artificial flowers to a reasonable amount on the ground as each has to be removed and replaced when trimming.
No hanging basket rods should be left without the baskets.
No one will be allowed to rummage through discarded flowers and place them back on grave sites.
When parking in the Cemetery stay close to the edge of the road but do not park or drive on the grass.
There will be no parking on Cemetery property for events at Veterans Park.
There will be no ball playing on Cemetery property.
No children will be allowed to play or loiter in the Cemetery or walk across graves.
No hunting will be allowed on Cemetery property.
Anyone wishing to donate trees, landscaping or money for other Cemetery improvements should contact the Cemetery Sexton or the Township Cemetery Board.
updated 5/17/2023 |
History
In December 1858, a number of men met at a schoolhouse and organized the first Cemetery Association. The first officers were John Shepler, president, L. G. Keedy, secretary and treasurer. The first trustees were: A. B. Pogue, S. T. Linn, and Samuel Work.
On January 1, 1859, they purchased five acres. In 1879 another ten acres and in 1905 another addition. Wilcox Bunk was hired to dig the graves. The first resident sexton was Adley Brock. Others were Ollie White, Harm Luppen, G. H. Cassens, and John Carls. It was through Cassens' efforts that the plan of the "Perpetual Care" was inaugurated in 1918.
The first burial; were of three children of Rev. John M. Brown who had previously been buried in the Presbyterian churchyard. There are now more than 6,500 graves in the Minonk cemetery. |
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