News from Friends of Jacksonville’s Historic Cemetery
May 2023 Cemetery News – by Dick Meyers
Honoring Veterans in May—May is the heart of springtime in Jacksonville and typically a very beautiful month in our historic cemetery. With winter behind us, and Memorial Day coming at month-end ready to mark the […]
April 2023 Cemetery News – by Dick Meyers
By the time you read this, the Cemetery should be looking good and almost ready for spring, thanks to last month’s Community Spring Clean-Up Day and the ongoing Adopt-A-Block program where some 200 volunteers maintain […]
March 2023 Cemetery News – by Dick Meyers
Cemetery Work to Continue—As you may have read elsewhere in this edition of the Jacksonville Review, Dirk Siedlecki, your usual columnist in this space, and the long-time President of the Friends of Jacksonville’s Historic Cemetery […]
February 2023 Cemetery News – by Dirk Siedlecki
The year 2022 did not end well for our friends and fellow volunteers with the Central Point Cemetery. Sometime on or around Tuesday, December 13, vandals entered the cemetery grounds and proceeded to topple more […]
A Year of Thanks from the Silent City on the Hill – by Dirk Siedlecki
Friends of Jacksonville’s Historic Cemetery Update – December 2022/January 2023
Sincere appreciation and gratitude to all our dedicated volunteers and many supporters for making 2022 another successful year for the Friends of Jacksonville’s Historic Cemetery. Our […]
October 2022 Cemetery News – by Dirk Siedlecki
Well, it’s fall in Jacksonville with the return of Meet the Pioneers on the hill overlooking Jacksonville where many of the stories we have featured over the years took place. The program which was first […]
They’re Baaack… “Meet the Pioneers” Returns to Jacksonville’s Historic Cemetery – by Peggy Dover
Three years ago, a select group of pioneers, lying in peaceful estate at the Jacksonville Cemetery, roused to enjoy the limelight and tell about their lives. Others have waited patiently for their chance to be […]
September 2022 Cemetery News – by Dirk Siedlecki
Thank you and our sincere gratitude to all our volunteers who contributed 140 hours of volunteer labor in the month of July 2022. The hours include: cemetery fixture restoration, marker cleaning, conducting tours, and general […]
August 2022 Cemetery News – by Dirk Siedlecki
Thank you and much appreciation to our volunteers who cleaned headstones in the Jewish section of our cemetery during the months of May and June. On May 21 volunteers cleaned thirty-seven headstones and on June […]
July 2022 Cemetery News – by Dirk Siedlecki
My sincere appreciation to all our volunteers who put in so many hours of work in helping to prepare the cemetery grounds for the Memorial Day holiday. Thank you to our city employees who went […]