No. 7 Cemetery, Carrier Mills, Saline County, Illinois
26 photos on this roll of film.
Photos were taken in May 2000 by James E. Roper and Martha E. Roper.
John V. Murphy in Cemeteries Vol. III, Saline County, IL (1977) describes the location of this cemetery as follows:
No. 7 Cemetery, Carrier Mills Township, Saline County, Illinois. NE 1/4 NW 1/4, Section 28 T9S R5E. From Carrier Mills blacktop road about 1 1/2 miles South of Route 13, turn West on Sahara Coal Co. road about 1 1/2 miles, then turn North on side road and follow it West, then North through strip mine spoil banks to the cemetery. There was a school, No. 7, at this location. The school has been gone since the mid 1940s.
Map of the location of No. 7 Cemetery (from: www.terraserve.com).
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