Genealogy Society

Sesser IL flags at cemetary
 
   

Welcome to Sesser IL

The Best Hometown
in Southern IL

Sesser Community Choir Christmas Concert
December 11, 2011,
Sunday, 2:00pm, Free 

Opera House Performance 

1940's Radio: A Christmas Carol -
 December 16,  Friday - 7:00pm
 December 17, Saturday - 7:00pm
 December 18,  Sunday - 2:00pm


Admission:  $5.00 per person or two cans of food for the Sesser Area food pantry

 Sesser Opera House
 108 West Franklin Street
 Sesser, IL 62884
 618 625-6300
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

The Genealogy Society of Southern Illinois

c/o John A. Logan College, 700 Logan College Road, Carterville, Illinois 62918-9599

 

Offers

HORSE PRAIRIE CEMETERY, SESSER ILLINOIS. TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS AND FAMILY RECORDS.
By Clara Crocker Brown and Ronald R. Stockton.
Horse Prairie Cemetery was opened in 1840 as a churchyard cemetery. It is still active. As of 2002 it contained 829 graves. This graveyard inventory has extensive family and genealogical information on 646 of those persons. There are graveyard poems, a map of the graveyard, photographs, an analysis of death patterns, and a name index of those interred. 88 pages, 2004. HARD COVER--$35.00

 

MAPLE HILL CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS. Compiled by Lawrence Lemons.
Maple Hill Cemetery is located in Sesser, Franklin County, Illinois. Includes cemetery map showing the block and row where each grave is located. 110 pages, 1997. SOFT COVER--$15.00

 

ATLAS OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, 1876.
Individual maps of all 102 counties in 1876, together with the plat of Chicago and other cities. Many landowner names, schools, churches, and cemeteries are on these maps. By Warren and Beers. 11 x 17 inch. SOFT COVER--$23.00

 

 

Purchase at  John A. Logan College, 700 Logan College Road, Carterville, Illinois 62918-9599