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Title: Papers in Illinois history and transactions
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Illinois State Historical Society. 1n Illinois State Historical Society. Transactions. 1n
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Publisher: Springfield
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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d wdien thesad and sorrowful work was completed at a cost of ten thousand dollars,by a commission appointed in accordance with an act of the Illinois Tvegis-lature in 1901, it was generally felt that as far as the State w\as con- 16 The original St. Cenevieve was known by the name of LeVieux Villa.ge. The old town wasIncited about three miles south of the present St. Genevieve and what is known as I>e Orande Champ,the big field, and was settled in 173), beinji the oldest settlement in upper I.ouisiaiia, a )iortion of whichis now Missouri, west of the Mississippi River. Roziers History of the Mississijipi Valley, p. Ofi. 17 New Kaskaskia will be nearly two miles from the edse of the present river, and its orsranizationand oricin will be treated by Mr. 11. W. Roberts in the next volume of the societys Transactions. 18 The location of the Tiarrison Hill Cemetery Monume^it is only a very short distance to the leftof the site of Fort Kaskaskia, as shown on our published cut of the Fort.
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Ill cerned an important -public duty had been performed. Performed itcertainly was^ but not in a manner satisfactory to the people of Kaskaskiaand vicinity. The funds provided by the act in question have not provedto be sufficient to keep these new Catholic and Protestant cemeteries inproper condition. The fences are out of repair and the growth of bushesand thorny vines is altogether beyond control. The soil and even thesubsoil washes down hill^ leaving graves exposed and the condition ofthe cemetery is a disgrace to the State. No complaints are made by themembers of the parish who appear to have inherited the patience oftheir ancestors whose good will during and after the Eevolution has welldeserved the praise of all our historians, but I feel it my duty to callattention to the States neglect of this sacred place. There is no harm in mentioning here that it was impossible toremove in any satisfactory manner, the sacred remains of the pioneerswho were buried in the old cemeteries. Th

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