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BLOOD'S POINT CEMETERY - EST

Flora Township, Boone County, Illinois

Blood's Point Cemetery lies on NW corner of the intersection of Blood's Point Road and Pearl Street [4 1/2 miles south of Belvidere on Pearl St / Rd.] It is surrounded by farm land with two residences nearby. It is a small cemetery that is vandalized often because of its name and isolation. A family known as Blood lived in the area and it is located at the interesection [often referred to as a point]; hence its name. There are three entrances but the center one is not used.

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The entrance gates are non-working
The side entrance is open
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Graves monument - many names listed
Tuttle monument - 7 family names listed
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Downed monuments
Impossible to read
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The outline indicates a family plot
Charlotte 1858-1898 w/of H. Shannon

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