Place Index - 63

Illinois

Vermilion County

Danville (cont.)

Strawser, Garnet V.  B: circa 1906, D: 1961
Taylor, John Lowell  B: 1916
Trent, Annice Warner  B: circa 1835, D: 1915
Van Valkenburg, Dory  B: 1885
Van Valkenburg, Edna May  B: 1880
Van Valkenburg, Emma  B: between 1874 and 1875
Van Valkenburg, Ernest  B: 1888
Van Valkenburg, Francis P.  B: 1867
Van Valkenburg, Frederick  B: 1890
Van Valkenburg, Sarah  B: 1883
Vogler, Herman Franklin  B: 1900, D: 1970
Westfall, Edward Melton  B: 1856, D: 1939
Young, Edward F.  B: 1871

22 California Ave.

(?), Celesta J.  B: circa 1866
Russell, Roy Jr.  B: circa 1915
Strauser, Elizabeth M.  B: circa 1890
Strauser, Eugene I.  B: circa 1897
Strauser, Frank  B: circa 1861
Strauser, Jeannette L.  B: circa 1903
Strauser, Leona N.  B: circa 1888
Strauser, Lulu N.  B: circa 1892
Strawser, Garnet V.  B: circa 1906, D: 1961

838½ East Main Street

Gammel, Gordon Edward  B: 1894, D: 1963
McConnell, Gladdis Elizabeth  B: 1901, D: 1991

Gordon Cemetery

Shewmaker, Leah Dorothy  B: 1883, D: 1906

Spring Hill Cemetery and Mausoleum

Cantrell, Ruth Lanhart  B: 1894, D: 1928
Gammel, Gordon Edward  B: 1894, D: 1963
McConnell, Gladdis Elizabeth  B: 1901, D: 1991
Moses, Harry Morgan  B: 1896, D: 1956

Veterans Hospital

Swartz, Harry B.  B: 1888, D: 1969

Danville City

Alkire, John Thomas  B: 1846, D: 1930
Backus, Helen Margaret  B: 1908, D: 1996
Backus, Lorene  B: 1905, D: 1997
Backus, Phillip Benjamen  B: 1882, D: 1963
Cantrell, Ruth Lanhart  B: 1894, D: 1928
Christiansen, John William  B: 1905, D: 1939
Custer, Bernice  B: 1910, D: 1996
Haworth, Otis Pearlin  B: 1870, D: 1928
Hayworth, Dortha  B: circa 1902
Hayworth, Genevie  B: 1900
Hayworth, Hollie D.  B: 1896
Longstreth, Catherine O.  B: 1872, D: 1948
Mellinger, Deborah A.  B: 1862, D: 1917
Oliphant, Helen Elizabeth  B: 1903, D: 1967

721 Grant Street

Alkire, Emma Elizabeth  B: 1875, D: 1957
Alkire, Ethel Victoria  B: 1886, D: 1980
Alkire, Hazel Eva  B: 1892, D: 1951
Alkire, Jesse William  B: 1889, D: 1965
Alkire, John Cecil  B: 1881, D: 1955
Alkire, John Thomas  B: 1846, D: 1930
Alkire, Opal Catherine  B: 1896, D: 1978
Shields, Mary Catherine  B: 1851, D: 1946

73 Columbus Street

Backus, Clarence M.  B: 1924, D: 2004
Backus, Helen Margaret  B: 1908, D: 1996
Backus, Lorene  B: 1905, D: 1997
Backus, Phillip Benjamen  B: 1882, D: 1963
Danielson, Margaret  B: 1930, D: 1988
Hoover, Carole Joan  B: 1932, D: 1999
Hoover, Charlotte  B: circa 1933
Morgan, Pauline Lydia  B: 1881

Soldiers Home

Mellinger, Samuel Levi  B: 1832, D: 1920

Danville Twp.

National Home Disabled Volunteer Soldiers

Mellinger, Samuel Levi  B: 1832, D: 1920

East Lynn

Clements, Beatrice L.  B: 1904, D: 1985
McConnell, William Howard  B: 1900, D: 1986
Seymour, William Glenn  B: 1908, D: 2007

East Lynn Cemetery

Alkire, Ada May  B: 1871, D: 1952
Clements, Beatrice L.  B: 1904, D: 1985
Clements, John C.  B: 1866, D: 1943
Fisher, Mildred Gertrude  B: 1891, D: 1994
McConnell, Donald E.  B: 1922, D: 1995
McConnell, Richard Calvin  B: 1925, D: 1985
McConnell, William Howard  B: 1900, D: 1986
McConnell, William Thomas  B: 1871, D: 1953
Rinehart, Alice Louisa  B: 1874, D: 1933
Wilson, Lois C.  B: 1922, D: 2012
Wilson, Wilbur C.  B: 1888, D: 1977

East of Fairmount

at the foot of Blue Mound

Alkire, James Henry  B: 1863, D: 1945

Fairmount

Alkire, Emma Elizabeth  B: 1875, D: 1957
Alkire, James Henry  B: 1863, D: 1945
Alkire, John Thomas  B: 1846, D: 1930
Hedges, Emma Alice  B: 1867, D: 1911
Shields, Mary Catherine  B: 1851, D: 1946

Georgetown

Alkire, James Lowell  B: 1907, D: 1980
Moses, Harry Morgan  B: 1896, D: 1956
Wilson, Susie Virginia  B: 1911

Church Street

Moses, Harry Morgan  B: 1896, D: 1956
Moses, Marian M.  B: circa 1922
Moses, Richard C.  B: circa 1928
Moses, Thomas William  B: 1919, D: 1986
Strawser, Garnet V.  B: circa 1906, D: 1961

Grant

(?), Elizabeth  B: circa 1828
Hunter, Sarah Elizabeth  B: circa 1850
Merriett, Ella  B: circa 1873
Merriett, Mary  B: circa 1858
Merritt, Clara Cornelia  B: 1864, D: 1951
Merritt, John  B: circa 1826
Odle, Anna R.  B: circa 1870
Odle, Ella F.  B: circa 1868
Odle, Harriet Leticia  B: 1874, D: 1960
Odle, John L.  B: circa 1876
Odle, Miles  B: circa 1842
Odle, Miles S.  B: circa 1879
Potts, Emery E.  B: circa 1865, D: 1932
Potts, Emma E.  B: circa 1865
Potts, Jefferson Winfield  B: 1861, D: 1937
Potts, Mattie E.  B: circa 1872
Potts, Thomas Jefferson  B: 1830, D: 1903
Potts, Wyat Sylvester  B: circa 1870
Snedaker, Martha  B: circa 1831

Grant Twp.

Alkire, Ada May  B: 1871, D: 1952
Alkire, Avery Porter  B: 1880, D: 1941
Alkire, Charles Erwin  B: 1862, D: 1943
Alkire, Etta  B: 1865, D: 1939
Alkire, George Andrew  B: 1848, D: 1906
Alkire, George Washington  B: 1817, D: 1900
Alkire, George Washington  B: 1865, D: 1929
Alkire, Georgia F.  B: circa 1907
Alkire, Gladys Lucille  B: 1898
Alkire, Lewis E.  B: circa 1873, D: 1948
Alkire, Lottie Margaret  B: 1883, D: 1964
Alkire, Luther Edmund  B: 1877, D: 1941
Alkire, Malcolm L.  B: circa 1905
Alkire, Margaret Susan  B: 1869, D: 1940
Alkire, Mark H.  B: circa 1903
Alkire, Miles Balser  B: 1894, D: 1952
Alkire, Reason  B: 1867, D: 1949
Alkire, Robert  B: circa 1862, D: circa 1890
Alkire, Robert Thompson  B: 1825, D: 1902
Alkire, William Henry  B: 1868, D: 1948
Harness, Esther  B: circa 1821, D: before 1900
Hawkins, Emma Belle  B: 1857, D: 1941
Huffman, Margaret  B: 1830, D: 1928
McConnell, Russell Earl  B: 1894
McConnell, Walter A.  B: 1896
McConnell, William Howard  B: 1900, D: 1986
McConnell, William Thomas  B: 1871, D: 1953
Odle, Harriet Leticia  B: 1874, D: 1960

Hoopeston

Alkire, Allie William  B: 1886, D: 1940
Alkire, Avery Porter  B: 1880, D: 1941
Alkire, Charles R.  B: 1861, D: 1935
Alkire, Edna  B: 1889
Alkire, Elizabeth  B: 1893
Alkire, Elizabeth Dora  B: 1858, D: 1929
Alkire, Fred  B: 1898
Alkire, George Washington  B: 1817, D: 1900
Alkire, George Washington  B: 1865, D: 1929
Alkire, Gladys Lucille  B: 1898
Alkire, Goldie  B: 1895
Alkire, Jack Jubal  B: 1894, D: 1979
Alkire, John Balser  B: 1829, D: 1903
Alkire, John Willis  B: circa 1859, D: 1946
Alkire, Lewis E.  B: circa 1873, D: 1948
Alkire, Luther Edmund  B: 1877, D: 1941
Alkire, Reason  B: 1867, D: 1949
Alkire, Robert Thompson  B: 1825, D: 1902
Alkire, Rolla Merritt  B: 1883, D: 1951
Alkire, Ross Arthur  B: 1906, D: 1956
Alkire, Subina Jane  B: 1863, D: 1948
Alkire, William Ervin  B: 1855, D: 1937
Beasley, Noble Silas  B: 1895
Douglas, Elizabeth Tamzen  B: 1833, D: 1923
Gallop, Grace Wilson  B: circa 1878, D: 1948
Goldsbury, Edward William
Hawkins, Emma Belle  B: 1857, D: 1941
Haworth, Homer Bunn  B: 1881, D: 1956
Huffman, Margaret  B: 1830, D: 1928
Lane, Blanche E.  B: circa 1884, D: before 1920
Long, Birdie Lucille  B: 1905
McConnell, Donald E.  B: 1922, D: 1995
McGrew, Joseph A.  B: circa 1866
Oler, Mary Esther  B: 1889
Oler, Thomas Allen  B: 1853, D: 1934
Peterson, Elizabeth Jane  B: 1917, D: 1917
Peterson, Milton O.  B: 1870, D: 1963
Powell, Charity
Preston, Addah Goldie  B: 1866, D: 1944
Preston, Francis Milton  B: 1830, D: 1905
Stephens, Flynn
Trent, Annice Warner  B: circa 1835, D: 1915

201 East Penn Street

Hawkins, Emma Belle  B: 1857, D: 1941
McGrew, Joseph A.  B: circa 1866

208 East Penn Street

Hawkins, Emma Belle  B: 1857, D: 1941
McGrew, Joseph A.  B: circa 1866

412 Second Avenue

Preston, Addah Goldie  B: 1866, D: 1944

near

Goldsbury, Edward William

Hoopeston City

(?), Elizabeth  B: circa 1846
Alkire, Allie William  B: 1886, D: 1940
Alkire, Avery Porter  B: 1880, D: 1941
Alkire, Edna  B: 1889
Alkire, Elizabeth  B: 1893
Alkire, Glenn J.  B: circa 1908
Alkire, Harold P.  B: circa 1906
Alkire, Isabelle  B: 1849, D: 1915
Alkire, John Balser  B: 1829, D: 1903
Alkire, William Ervin  B: 1855, D: 1937
Haworth, Albert C.  B: 1876
Haworth, Corilla  B: circa 1875
Haworth, Elizabeth  B: circa 1908
Haworth, Elizabeth A.  B: 1880
Haworth, Homer Bunn  B: 1881, D: 1956
Haworth, Mica Jah H.  B: 1834, D: 1915
Haworth, Otis Pearlin  B: 1870, D: 1928
Haworth, Serena  B: circa 1872
Lane, Blanche E.  B: circa 1884, D: before 1920
Lithgow, Kenneth S.  B: 1904, D: 1986
Lithgow, Stanley  B: 1929, D: 1996
McConnell, Richard Calvin  B: 1925, D: 1985
Seymour, William Glenn  B: 1908, D: 2007

517 West Lincoln Street

Alkire, Allie William  B: 1886, D: 1940
Alkire, Edna  B: 1889
Alkire, Elizabeth  B: 1893
Alkire, Eva  B: 1910
Alkire, Goldie  B: 1895
Alkire, Ross Arthur  B: 1906, D: 1956
Alkire, William Ervin  B: 1855, D: 1937
Cantrell, Florence
Merritt, Clara Cornelia  B: 1864, D: 1951
Uln, Rosa Lee  B: 1884, D: 1907

721 S Market Street

Alkire, Lottie Margaret  B: 1883, D: 1964
Haworth, Elizabeth  B: circa 1908
Haworth, Homer Bunn  B: 1881, D: 1956
Haworth, Robert M.  B: 1910, D: 1984

805 S Market Street

(?), Lucille  B: circa 1897
Alkire, Avery Porter  B: 1880, D: 1941
Alkire, Glenn J.  B: circa 1908
Alkire, Harold P.  B: circa 1906

Lincoln Street

Alkire, Isabelle  B: 1849, D: 1915
Haworth, Albert C.  B: 1876
Haworth, Hollie  B: 1886
Haworth, Homer Bunn  B: 1881, D: 1956
Haworth, Lucy  B: 1892
Haworth, Mabel  B: 1884
Haworth, May  B: 1889
Haworth, Mica Jah H.  B: 1834, D: 1915

Humrick

Collier, Gertrude  B: 1901, D: 1987

Indianola

Alkire, Silas  B: circa 1851, D: circa 1925
Finney, Julia A.

Oakwood

Oakwood Cemetery

Vogler, Herman Franklin  B: 1900, D: 1970

Oakwood Cemetery

Haworth, Otis Pearlin  B: 1870, D: 1928

Oakwood Twp.

Haworth, Otis Pearlin  B: 1870, D: 1928
Hayworth, Genevie  B: 1900
Hayworth, Hollie D.  B: 1896
Longstreth, Catherine O.  B: 1872, D: 1948

Pilot

Cronkhite, Faney  B: circa 1871
Cronkhite, Homer  B: circa 1858
Cronkhite, Lee  B: circa 1856
Cronkhite, Mary Ann  B: 1816, D: 1893
Cronkhite, May  B: circa 1867
Cronkhite, Melinda  B: circa 1863
Cronkhite, Rebecca  B: circa 1860
Cronkhite, Ross  B: circa 1854
Cronkhite, Scott  B: circa 1870
Cronkhite, William S.  B: 1823
Sweet, Eliza  B: circa 1834
Tillotson, Ephraim Buell  B: circa 1811
Tillotson, Mary Ann  B: 1861
Waterman, Milinda  B: circa 1809

prob. Indianola

Baker, Hannah  B: circa 1852, D: after 1890

Rankin

Wilson, Richard W.  B: 1920, D: 1996

Rankin Union Cemetery

Christiansen, John William  B: 1905, D: 1939

Rossville

Abbott, Mildred  B: 1906, D: 1945
Alkire, Alice Alfretta  B: 1859, D: 1935
Potts, Carey William  B: 1851, D: 1921
Potts, Jefferson Winfield  B: 1861, D: 1937
Seymour, Marjorie Ellen  B: 1931, D: 1983
Seymour, Maurice Eugene  B: 1930, D: 2015
Seymour, William Glenn  B: 1908, D: 2007

216 Attica Street

Abbott, Mildred  B: 1906, D: 1945
Seymour, Marjorie Ellen  B: 1931, D: 1983
Seymour, Maurice Eugene  B: 1930, D: 2015
Seymour, Maxine  B: circa 1933
Seymour, William Glenn  B: 1908, D: 2007

Mann's Chapel Cemetery

Abbott, Franklin Emmett  B: 1859, D: 1920
Abbott, Harlen E.  B: 1905, D: 1925
Abbott, Iva  B: 1891, D: 1966
Alkire, Etta  B: 1865, D: 1939

Miller Cemetery

Abbott, Wilson  B: 1832, D: 1883
Brown, Sarah J.  B: 1835, D: 1886

Rossville Cemetery

Abbott, Mildred  B: 1906, D: 1945
Bird, Mary Audrey  B: 1885, D: 1979
Custer, Bernice  B: 1910, D: 1996
Henderson, Mary A.  B: 1864, D: 1939
Lithgow, Stanley  B: 1929, D: 1996
Potts, Carey William  B: 1851, D: 1921
Seymour, Marjorie Ellen  B: 1931, D: 1983
Seymour, Maurice Eugene  B: 1930, D: 2015
Seymour, Walter Manford  B: 1882, D: 1931
Seymour, William Glenn  B: 1908, D: 2007

Sidell

Alkire, Charles Newton  B: 1887
Alkire, Charlotte  B: circa 1852
Alkire, Chester M.  B: 1895, D: 1946
Alkire, Frona  B: circa 1891, D: 1891
Alkire, Irene Ellen  B: 1893
Alkire, James Henry  B: 1863, D: 1945
Alkire, James Lowell  B: 1907, D: 1980
Alkire, John Thomas  B: 1846, D: 1930
Alkire, Joseph Van  B: 1847
Alkire, Margaret  B: circa 1856, D: before 1860
Alkire, Silas  B: circa 1851, D: circa 1925
Alkire, Tabitha
Hedges, Emma Alice  B: 1867, D: 1911
Hedges, Louisa  B: circa 1871
Hedges, Marcus Newton  B: circa 1836, D: after 1880
Hedges, Robert  B: circa 1872
Hedges, Rosa  B: circa 1864
Hedges, Taylor  B: circa 1861
McDowell, John Archibald  B: 1906
Montgomery, Marjorie Alice  B: 1918, D: 1958
Montgomery, Olive Irene  B: 1911, D: 1958

near

Alkire, Elijah E.  B: circa 1860
Alkire, Wilbur  B: 1890, D: 1931
Alkire, William Harvey  B: 1890, D: 1956
McDowell, John Archibald  B: 1906

Sidell Twp.

Alkire, Elijah E.  B: circa 1860
Alkire, James Henry  B: 1863, D: 1945
Alkire, Jared  B: 1816, D: circa 1896
Alkire, Silas  B: circa 1851, D: circa 1925
Baker, Hannah  B: circa 1852, D: after 1890
Newport, Irena  B: 1820, D: 1897

Westville

Moses, Harry Morgan  B: 1896, D: 1956
Moses, Thomas  B: 1870
Pringle, James  B: 1872
Pringle, Robena  B: 1875

Short Street

Moses, Harry Morgan  B: 1896, D: 1956
Moses, J. Mabel  B: circa 1903
Moses, T. George  B: circa 1906
Moses, Thomas  B: 1870
Pringle, Robena  B: 1875

Wabash County

Armstrong, George Washington  B: 1821, D: 1894
Langford, Charles Shannon  B: 1874, D: 1946
Welker, Seth Ray  B: 1981, D: 2004

Gards Point

Lick Prairie Cemetery

Welker, Seth Ray  B: 1981, D: 2004

Ward County

East Lincoln

Graham, Harry Lincoln  B: circa 1842, D: 1906

Warren County

Argo, Nell  B: circa 1875
Moore, James Gregory  B: 1870, D: 1961
Powell, Flora Caroline  B: 1880, D: 1939
Van Valkenburg, Frances H.  B: 1869
Van Valkenburg, James Weber  B: 1872
Van Valkenburg, Othello  B: 1837, D: 1907
Vawler, Lemuel E.
Zug, Virginia  B: 1838

Floyd Twp.

Ray, Algie Reece  B: 1886, D: 1963

Kirkwood

Royer, Wendell Jesse  B: 1932, D: 1955

Lincoln Twp.

Lippincott, James  B: 1824, D: 1911
Lippincott, Walter  B: 1870

Monmouth

Lierly, Raymond Weaver  B: 1908, D: 1972
Mitchell, Susan Margaretta  B: 1843, D: 1911
Powell, Flora Caroline  B: 1880, D: 1939
Roseberry, Ida Samantha  B: 1913, D: 2007

Roseville

Engle, Dorothy Emily  B: 1903, D: 1981

Roseville Memorial Park

Engle, Barbara Lee  B: 1928, D: 2002
Engle, Earl Dean  B: 1893, D: 1965

Washington County

Cantrell, Irvin Woodrow  B: 1914, D: 2000
Martin, Martha E.  B: circa 1869

Ashley

Hawthorne, Clara Emeline  B: 1883

Wayne County

Downen, Omer  B: circa 1909
Turner, William Robert  B: 1897, D: 1924

Ellery

Straight, Wilma Ruth  B: 1916

Fairfield

(?), Elizabeth J.  B: circa 1858
Bacon, Mark Reeves  B: 1852
Belt, Alice Irene  B: 1910
Belt, Francis Harley  B: 1916, D: 1997
Brothers, Rena May  B: 1873, D: 1937
Creighton, Brenda Gene  B: 1945, D: 1998
Davis, Mary Edna  B: 1920
Downen, Omer  B: circa 1909
Ellison, Lawrence Elbert  B: 1924
Straight, Wilma Ruth  B: 1916

Maple Hill Cemetery

Taylor, Margaret Frances  B: 1868, D: 1931
Turner, Henry King  B: 1864, D: 1946
Turner, William Robert  B: 1897, D: 1924

Mount Erie

Long, Birdie Lucille  B: 1905

Rinard

Purdue, Lucian Clarence  B: 1885, D: 1934

Wayne City

Turner, Henry King  B: 1864, D: 1946

Waynesville

The Clinton Public

Cantrell, William  B: 1812, D: 1886

White County

Davis, Mary Edna  B: 1920
McMurtry, Silas Adrain  B: 1905, D: 1967

Carmi

Burnett, Elizabeth  D: 1817
Hobbs, Elizabeth Ann  B: 1835, D: 1923
Shepard, Alice Achsah  B: 1872

Centerville

Ward, Ilo Galen  B: 1878, D: 1970

Emma

Chastain, Belle Zona  B: 1874, D: 1962

Emma Twp.

Chastain, Belle Zona  B: 1874, D: 1962
Foster, Edward H.  B: 1899, D: before 1910
Foster, Grover Cleveland  B: 1890, D: 1927
Foster, Isaac Abraham  B: 1862, D: 1926
Foster, Isaac Owen  B: 1895, D: 1961

Hawthorne

Page, Flora Lillian  B: 1873, D: 1947

Herald Prairie

Union Ridge

Burklow, Minerva Kathryn  B: 1865, D: 1918
Foster, John William Harrison  B: 1859, D: 1930

Norris City

Ellison, Stella Jean  B: 1951, D: 1968

Phillipstown

Bacon, Mark Reeves  B: 1852

Whiteside County

Hudson, Alice Linnie  B: 1867, D: 1870
Hudson, Lavenia  B: 1859, D: 1944
Hudson, Minnie Ruth  B: 1890, D: 1967
Meyer, Albert J.
Van Valkenburg, Emma Jane  B: 1857, D: 1951

Albany

Graham, Charles  B: circa 1916
Hudson, Amy Fidelia  B: 1857, D: 1948
Hudson, Anna Waite  B: 1864, D: 1944
Hudson, Ermina DeLora  B: 1852, D: 1935
Hudson, George Thomas  B: 1861, D: 1946
Hudson, Mary Jane  B: 1854, D: 1933
Huggins, Edwin Alfred  B: 1852, D: 1945
Reedy, Minnie  B: 1878, D: 1960
Slocum, Louis Lyman  B: 1877, D: 1975

Oak Ridge Cemetery

Slocum, Louis Lyman  B: 1877, D: 1975

Oakridge Cemetery

Buck, Fidelia  B: 1829, D: 1915
Hudson, Mary Jane  B: 1854, D: 1933
Hudson, Thomas  B: 1830, D: 1904

Erie

Buck, Fidelia  B: 1829, D: 1915
Hudson, Alice Linnie  B: 1867, D: 1870
Hudson, Anna Waite  B: 1864, D: 1944
Hudson, George Thomas  B: 1861, D: 1946
Hudson, John Wesley  B: 1871, D: 1956
Hudson, Minnie Ruth  B: 1890, D: 1967
Hudson, Thomas  B: 1830, D: 1904
Markee, Mae Winogene  B: 1879, D: 1963
Wilt, William Henry  B: 1862, D: 1949

Erie Cemetery

Hudson, Anna Waite  B: 1864, D: 1944

Erie Cemetery

Hudson, Lavenia  B: 1859, D: 1944

Fulton

Hudson, Mary Jane  B: 1854, D: 1933
Huggins, Edwin Alfred  B: 1852, D: 1945

Garden Plain

Hudson, Amy Fidelia  B: 1857, D: 1948
Hudson, Ermina DeLora  B: 1852, D: 1935
Slocum, Lyman Cruse  B: 1848, D: 1914
Turner, Mary  B: circa 1879
Turner, Wallace  B: 1856, D: 1927

Morrison

(?), Sarah Jane
Bradley, Almon E.  B: 1905
Bradley, Harry A.  B: 1866
Gibler, James  B: 1852, D: 1908
Hudson, Lavenia  B: 1859, D: 1944
McDonald, Mary
Shear, Mary J.  B: circa 1865
Van Valkenburg, John  B: 1826, D: 1900

Newton

Gibler, James  B: 1852, D: 1908
Gibler, William  B: circa 1878
Hudson, Lavenia  B: 1859, D: 1944
Hudson, Mary Jane  B: 1854, D: 1933
Huggins, Albert  B: circa 1878
Huggins, Edwin Alfred  B: 1852, D: 1945
Huggins, Edwin J.  B: circa 1875
Huggins, Walter  B: 1880

Newton Twp.

Hudson, Anna Waite  B: 1864, D: 1944
Hudson, John Wesley  B: 1871, D: 1956
Markee, Alice  B: circa 1859
Markee, Clifton  B: circa 1877
Markee, Disbury I.  B: circa 1832
Markee, Lizzie  B: circa 1861
Markee, Mae Winogene  B: 1879, D: 1963
Markee, William  B: circa 1863
Nevitt, Mary Ann  B: circa 1841
Slocum, Lyman Cruse  B: 1848, D: 1914
Wilt, William Henry  B: 1862, D: 1949

Portland

Wilt, William Henry  B: 1862, D: 1949

Sterling

Hitchcock, Scott Vernon  B: 1915, D: 1982
Merrill, Edward Forest  B: 1867, D: 1933
Potts, William M.
Smith, Robert James  B: 1880, D: 1970
Van Valkenburg, Adella  B: 1851
Van Valkenburg, Sarah Jane  B: 1868, D: 1948

Tampico

Van Valkenburg, Albert Perry  B: 1877, D: 1941
Van Valkenburg, Ida Mae  B: 1864, D: 1953
Van Valkenburg, John Logan  B: 1865, D: 1957
Van Valkenburg, Ora Elwood  B: 1873, D: 1962

Will County

Carter, Robert John  B: 1914, D: 1996

Custer Twp.

(?), Almira E.  B: 1839
(?), Etta J.  B: 1879
Russell, Bert J.  B: 1876
Russell, Frank E.  B: 1880
Russell, Theodore  B: 1836

Elwood

Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery

Carter, LaVerne Allen  B: 1925, D: 2017

Joliet

Carter, Ebbie Allen  B: 1881, D: 1941
Carter, Frances  B: circa 1909
Carter, James A.  B: circa 1916
Carter, LaVerne Allen  B: 1925, D: 2017
Carter, Mabel Wanda  B: 1912, D: 2016
Carter, Robert John  B: 1914, D: 1996
Coverdale, William T.  B: 1859, D: 1933
Meeker, Martha Armanda  B: 1866, D: 1932
O'Daniel, Jesse Edward  B: 1928, D: 1998
O'Daniel, Jesse Tilton  B: 1900, D: 1986
Smith, Jennie  B: 1881, D: 1957
Thomas, Harold H.  B: 1927, D: 1975
Thomas, James Marvin  B: 1923, D: 1967
Thomas, Wilson D.  B: circa 1932

15 Cass Street

F.W. Themes

Carter, Robert John  B: 1914, D: 1996

1921 Jackson Street

Carter, Ebbie Allen  B: 1881, D: 1941
Carter, Frances  B: circa 1909
Carter, James A.  B: circa 1916
Carter, LaVerne Allen  B: 1925, D: 2017
Carter, Mabel Wanda  B: 1912, D: 2016
Carter, Robert John  B: 1914, D: 1996
Smith, Jennie  B: 1881, D: 1957

2103 E Jackson Street

Carter, Ebbie Allen  B: 1881, D: 1941
Smith, Jennie  B: 1881, D: 1957

2103 Jackson Street

Carter, Ebbie Allen  B: 1881, D: 1941
Carter, Frances  B: circa 1909
Carter, James A.  B: circa 1916
Carter, Mabel Wanda  B: 1912, D: 2016
Carter, Robert John  B: 1914, D: 1996
Carter, Ruth  B: circa 1906
Smith, Jennie  B: 1881, D: 1957

242 Kraker Ave.

Carter, Ebbie Allen  B: 1881, D: 1941
Carter, Robert John  B: 1914, D: 1996
Smith, Jennie  B: 1881, D: 1957

339 Collins Street

Fletcher, Odie Lee  B: 1903, D: 1995
O'Daniel, Jesse Tilton  B: 1900, D: 1986
Thomas, Harold H.  B: 1927, D: 1975

510 Bluff Street

O'Daniel, Jesse Edward  B: 1928, D: 1998
O'Daniel, Jesse Tilton  B: 1900, D: 1986
O'Daniel, Ruth Marie  B: 1926, D: 2004
Schulz, Verna Ellen  B: 1908, D: 1984

Meeker Ave.

Elgin Joliet Eastern Rail Road

Carter, Ebbie Allen  B: 1881, D: 1941

Oakwood Cemetery

Carter, Ebbie Allen  B: 1881, D: 1941
Smith, Jennie  B: 1881, D: 1957

Woodlawn Memorial Park

Carter, Mabel Wanda  B: 1912, D: 2016
Carter, Robert John  B: 1914, D: 1996
Schulz, Verna Ellen  B: 1908, D: 1984

Joliet Twp.

Carter, Ebbie Allen  B: 1881, D: 1941

516 Linden Ave.

Carter, Ebbie Allen  B: 1881, D: 1941
Carter, Frances  B: circa 1909
Carter, Ruth  B: circa 1906
Smith, Jennie  B: 1881, D: 1957

Lockport

Griswold, Boyd V.  B: 1895

Lockport Cemetery

Vinson, Floyd W.  B: 1934, D: 2009

Ridgwood

242 Kraker Ave.

Carter, Ebbie Allen  B: 1881, D: 1941
Carter, James A.  B: circa 1916
Carter, LaVerne Allen  B: 1925, D: 2017
Carter, Robert John  B: 1914, D: 1996
Smith, Jennie  B: 1881, D: 1957

Troy Twp.

Carter, Robert John  B: 1914, D: 1996

Right West Shore Drive

Carter, Robert John  B: 1914, D: 1996
O'Daniel, Jesse Edward  B: 1928, D: 1998
Schulz, Verna Ellen  B: 1908, D: 1984

Will Twp.

Carter, Ebbie Allen  B: 1881, D: 1941
Smith, Jennie  B: 1881, D: 1957

Williamson County

Adams, Tennessee Caroline  B: 1843, D: 1919
Ashby, Joseph H.  B: circa 1826, D: 1897
Ashby, Robert Henry  B: circa 1865
Ashby, William G.  B: circa 1867, D: 1921
Cantrell, Bethel  B: 1807, D: 1858
Cantrell, Irena  B: 1813, D: 1866
Carter, Lee R.
Chase, Eva  B: 1888, D: 1951
Cox, George Washington  B: 1892, D: 1961
Dean, Irena B.  B: 1863, D: 1866
Dean, John L.  B: 1861, D: 1867
Dean, Mary Elizabeth  B: 1860, D: 1887
Dean, Nathan  B: 1838, D: 1907
Dean, Olive  B: 1874, D: 1955
Felts, Alice Dufree  B: 1862
Fitts, Charlotte  D: before 1880
Flannigan, Charlotte  B: 1848, D: circa 1879
Flannigan, Sarah M.  B: 1841, D: 1919
Garrett, George B.  B: circa 1866
Jones, Bertha
Jordan, Bethel  B: circa 1849
Jordan, Bluford  B: 1845, D: 1929
Jordan, Caroline  B: 1832, D: 1896
Jordan, Constance  B: 1834
Jordan, Constance  B: 1889
Jordan, Elias  B: 1838, D: 1903
Jordan, Elias  B: 1882
Jordan, Ellie  B: 1891
Jordan, Gracie  B: 1887, D: 1888
Jordan, Irena  B: 1876
Jordan, Irena C.  B: circa 1879
Jordan, James  B: 1867
Jordan, John  B: 1872
Jordan, Jonathan L.  B: 1854, D: 1928
Jordan, Mary E.  B: 1865
Jordan, Mary Jane  B: 1841
Jordan, Mary Parthena  B: 1867, D: 1933
Jordan, Maude  B: 1876
Jordan, Moses  B: 1880
Jordan, Ralph  B: 1884, D: 1918
Jordan, Richard  B: 1874, D: 1908
Jordan, Sarah  B: 1888
Jordan, Sarah A.  B: 1841, D: 1916
Jordan, Sidney A.  B: 1846, D: 1922
Jordan, Thomas  B: 1809, D: circa 1858
Jordan, Thomas C.  B: 1888, D: 1908
Jordan, Thomas Jefferson  B: 1867, D: 1883
Kelton, William Wilson  B: 1882, D: 1966
Langford, Charles Shannon  B: 1874, D: 1946
Lolless, Eva Jane  B: 1899, D: 1952
McCarty, J.L.  B: 1851
McCarty, J.L.  B: 1851
McFall, Mary W.
McFall, William W.  B: 1844
Morris, Joseph  B: 1858
Newman, Florence Irena  B: 1867
Newman, Mary Margaret  B: 1865
Newman, William J.
Norman, Ralph  B: 1884
Odle, Mary E.  B: circa 1853, D: 1903
Parker, George W.  B: circa 1821
Parker, Montraville  B: circa 1858

(cont.)

• A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
  — Will Rogers
• A fool and his money are soon elected.
  — Will Rogers
• A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.
  — Will Rogers
• A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
  — Will Rogers
• A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
  — Will Rogers
• About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
  — Will Rogers
• Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
  — Will Rogers
• Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
  — Will Rogers
• All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
  — Will Rogers
• America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
  — Will Rogers
• America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
  — Will Rogers
• An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
  — Will Rogers
• An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
  — Will Rogers
• An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.
  — Will Rogers
• Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
  — Will Rogers
• Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.
  — Will Rogers
• Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
  — Will Rogers
• Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
  — Will Rogers
• Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.
  — Will Rogers
• Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
  — Will Rogers
• Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
  — Will Rogers
• Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.
  — Will Rogers
• Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
  — Will Rogers
• Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
  — Will Rogers
• Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.
  — Will Rogers
• Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
  — Will Rogers
• Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
  — Will Rogers
• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
  — Will Rogers
• Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there.
  — Will Rogers
• Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
  — Will Rogers
• Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
  — Will Rogers
• Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
  — Will Rogers
• Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
  — Will Rogers
• Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
  — Will Rogers
• Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
  — Will Rogers
• I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
  — Will Rogers
• I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.
  — Will Rogers
• I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'
  — Will Rogers
• I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
  — Will Rogers
• I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
  — Will Rogers
• I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
  — Will Rogers
• I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.
  — Will Rogers
• I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.
  — Will Rogers
• If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.
  — Will Rogers
• If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
  — Will Rogers
• If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
  — Will Rogers
• If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.
  — Will Rogers
• If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.
  — Will Rogers
• If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
  — Will Rogers
• If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
  — Will Rogers
• If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
  — Will Rogers
• I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
  — Will Rogers
• In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.
  — Will Rogers
• In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.
  — Will Rogers
• Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
  — Will Rogers
• It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
  — Will Rogers
• It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.
  — Will Rogers
• It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.
  — Will Rogers
• It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
  — Will Rogers
• Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.
  — Will Rogers
• Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.
  — Will Rogers
• Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.
  — Will Rogers
• Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
  — Will Rogers
• Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
  — Will Rogers
• Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
  — Will Rogers
• Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
  — Will Rogers
• Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
  — Will Rogers
• Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.
  — Will Rogers
• Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
  — Will Rogers
• On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
  — Will Rogers
• One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.
  — Will Rogers
• One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.
  — Will Rogers
• Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
  — Will Rogers
• People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
  — Will Rogers
• People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
  — Will Rogers
• People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
  — Will Rogers
• Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
  — Will Rogers
• Politics is applesauce.
  — Will Rogers
• Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.
  — Will Rogers
• So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.
  — Will Rogers
• So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
  — Will Rogers
• Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
  — Will Rogers
• The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
  — Will Rogers
• The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
  — Will Rogers
• The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.
  — Will Rogers
• The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
  — Will Rogers
• The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.
  — Will Rogers
• The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
  — Will Rogers
• The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'
  — Will Rogers
• The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
  — Will Rogers
• The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
  — Will Rogers
• The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
  — Will Rogers
• The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
  — Will Rogers
• The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
  — Will Rogers
• The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.
  — Will Rogers
• The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
  — Will Rogers
• The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.
  — Will Rogers
• The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
  — Will Rogers
• The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.
  — Will Rogers
• There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
  — Will Rogers
• There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
  — Will Rogers
• There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
  — Will Rogers
• There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
  — Will Rogers
• There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
  — Will Rogers
• There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
  — Will Rogers
• Things ain't what they used to be and never were.
  — Will Rogers
• Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
  — Will Rogers
• This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
  — Will Rogers
• This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
  — Will Rogers
• We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.
  — Will Rogers
• We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
  — Will Rogers
• We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
  — Will Rogers
• We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
  — Will Rogers
• What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
  — Will Rogers
• When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
  — Will Rogers
• When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
  — Will Rogers
• When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.
  — Will Rogers
• When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.
  — Will Rogers
• Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
  — Will Rogers
• Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
  — Will Rogers
• You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
  — Will Rogers
• You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
  — Will Rogers
• Every person you will pass on the street today is going to die. Living long enough, each will suffer the loss of friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?
  — Sam Harris
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Do one thing every day that scares you.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Do one thing every day that scares you.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Never allow a person to tell you 'no' who doesn't have the power to say 'yes.'
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Work is always an antidote to depression.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do …
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• It's your life-but only if you make it so.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Courage is exhilarating.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• The giving of love is an education in itself.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt
• All of life is a constant education.
  — Eleanor Roosevelt