Providence Old Stone Church Cemetery in Lena, Illinois

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Get directions 15010 W. Howardsville Road
Lena, Illinois, USA

Coordinates: 42.37683, -89.90438
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Providence Regular (Predestinarian) Baptist Church was organized by 1860 or earlier. The stone church was built in about 1872. The oldest known burial in the cemetery behind the church took place in 1852.The church ceased to meet in about 1900. It was used for a funeral as late as 1915. In 1959 a circuit court judge ruled that all the known graves had been moved, and the cemetery was legally considered vacated. However, research has proven that quite a number of graves were not moved, and in some cases only stones but not graves may have been moved. Those which were moved, were primarily to the Lena Burial Park and Holly Grove Cemetery.

The property was purchased by the Primitive Baptist Library of Carthage, Illinois, in August 2016. The church building has been restored after two years of carpentry and stone masonry work. A single marker with names of all known burials has also been erected in the cemetery, which has been cleared and is being kept mowed. Worship services have been restarted in the church, beginning in August 2018.