Shabbona Township

HISTORY OF SMITH CEMETERY
Aka Shabbona Grove Cemetery

Smith Cemetery, also known as Shabbona Grove Cemetery, is in Section 27 and is located on
Shabbona Grove Road, West of Shabbona road, South of the Village of Shabbona Grove.

 The cemetery was established on the farm of David Smith:

 “Mr. David Smith and Eliza Jane, his wife, of Dekalb County deeded to M. W. Olmstead, B.
Parks and Wm. Marks Trustees in trust and their successors in office for $1.00 (one dollar) a
parcel of land described as follows, to—wit:

 Being a part of the East half of the South West Quarter of Section 27 in Twp 38 North of Range
three East of the 3rd Principal Meridian and bounded as follows: Beginning at the South West
corner, and running thence North two chains and seventy five links, to a stone, thence East four
chains and forty four and a half links to a stone and thence South two chains and seventy five links
to a stone on the South line, thence West on the South line four chains and forty four and a half links
to the place of beginning containing 1.222 acres more or less for the inhabitants of said town and
vicinity to be used as a place to bury the dead.

 David Smith

Eliza Jane X Smith (her mark)

 Witness:
Horace W. Fay
Notary Public          Dated 27 Jun 1856     Deed Bk. 22 pg 344.”

“State of Illinois
Office of the Secretary of State
To All To Whom These Presents Shall Come, Greeting:

WHEREAS a Petition, duly signed by F. E. Foiles, F. W. Frost, Lewis Hotchkiss, John Todd,
W. J. Olmstead and Fred W. Shrader, having been filed in the Office of the Secretary of State,
on the 24th day of November A. D. 1915, for the organization of the “Shabbona Grove Cemetery
under and in accordance with the provisions of an act entitled “An Act to provide for the organization,
ownership, management and control of Cemetery Associations,” approved May 14, 1903, a copy
of which is hereto attached,

I, Lewis G. Stevenson, Secretary of State of the State of Illinois, by virtue of the powers and duties
vested in me by law, do hereby certify that the said “Shabbona Grove Cemetery” is a legally organized
association in accordance with the provisions of the above named act.

In Testimony Whereof, I hereto set my hand and cause to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Illinois.

Done at the City of Springfield this 24th day of November A. D. 1916 and of the Independence of the
United States the one hundred and fortieth ­Lewis G. Stevenson

seal            Secretary of State.
State of Illinois,) Dekalb County)           To Lewis G. Stevenson, Secretary of State,

We, the undersigned F. E. Foiles, F. W. Frost, Lewis Hotchkiss, John Todd, W. J. Olmstead and
Fred W. Shrader, hereby present this our petition setting forth our desire to organized a Cemetery
Association under an act of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, entitled “An Act to provide
for the organization, ownership, management and control of Cemetery Associations,’ approved May
14, 1903, said Cemetery to be located in Dekalb County, and to be known by the name and style of
‘Shabbona Grove Cemetery’.

The post office address of the business office of said Association is at Number No Street No number
street, in Shabbona Grove in the County of Dekalb and State of Illinois.

       Signed:       F. E. Foiles              F. W. Frost
                        Lewis Hotchkiss       John Todd
                        W. J. Olmstead         Fred W. Shrader. 

Filed for record February 16, 1916, at 8 o’clock A. M. Misc. Bk. G.  pg 218.”