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Hutchinson Cemetery (Defunct)
Springfield, IL

              Established as the first private burial ground in
            Springfield by John Hutchinson in 1843. In 1856 a city
            ordinance banned burials within the city limits. The 1877
            City Ordinance, in relation to cemeteries reads (in part):
            "NO INTERMENT IN HUTCHINSON'S CEMTERY. - It shall be
            unlawful for any person to make any interment or bury
            any dead body in Hutchinson's cemetery..."
            "OAK RIDGE MANAGERS TO HAVE CONTROL - The board of managers
            of Oak Ridge cemetery shall have possession and full control
            of Hutchinson's cemetery....."
              Following this most of the 600+ bodies buried in Hutchinson
            cemetery were exhumed and reinterred in Oak Ridge Cemetery.
            Among them was EDWARD BAKER LINCOLN, son of ABRAHAM and MARY
            (TODD) LINCOLN.


              In 1917 the property was acquired by the Springfield
            School District and the present and fourth Springfield High
            School constructed on the site.

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 Source: Historical Marker Hutchinson Cemetery & Springfield H.S.
         Revised Ordinances of the City of Springfield, (Illinois)- 1877


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OAK RIDGE CEMETERY
Its History and Improvements
H. W. Rokker, Printer & Binder
Springfield, ILL. - 1879

                           HUTCHINSON CEMETERY
                         
              Subsequent to the establishment of the city Grave Yard,
            the ground for which, as before stated, was donated to the
            city, Mr. John Hutchinson laid out a tract of about six
            acres, lying on the west of said Grave Yard, for cemetery
            purposes. It was known as HUTCHINSON'S CEMETERY, and for
            many years was the principal place of burial of the dead
            in Springfield. With the establishment of Oak Ridge ceme-
            tery, and enterprise which was demanded by the rapidly in-
            creasing population, and the consequent surrounding of the
            former burial places with the busy activities of life, which
            rendered them no longer fit places of sepulture, steps were
            taken by the City Council by which further interments in
            Hutchinson's Cemetery were soon afterwards discontinued.
            
              An ordinance was passed by the Council in 1866, under the
            provisions of which owners of lots in Hutchinson's Cemetery
            were enabled to exchange lots therein, for lots of equal 
            area, in Oak Ridge Cemetery. By this arrangement the larger
            part of the ground in Hutchinson's Cemetery has come into
            the possession of the city, and Oak Ridge Cemetery has be-
            come the only burial place for our citizens. 
              It is anticipated that the remaining lots will, at no
            distant day, be exchanged, and thus the whole plat be
            vacated, and the proceeds of its sale be placed to the
            credit of Oak Ridge Cemetery, as a part of its Permanent
            Improvement Fund.
               Whether sold in lots, or devoted to public purposes, it
            was the mutual understanding of the City Council and the
            Board of Managers, that the vacated grounds should inure
            to the benefit of Oak Ridge Cemetery.
            
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