Coates Durley Cemetery
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Coates Durley Cemetery

Cornelia, Grant County, Wisconsin, USA

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    Coordinates: 42.68837, -90.54977
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Coates Durley Cemetery is located on a farmstead in Harrison Township, Grant County, Wisconsin. It was originally located on the south portion of a 40 acre tract described as NW 1/4 of SE 1/4 of Section 36. Burials appear to have been made in the 1840-1870 time period, but it was not cared for over time and landowners cultivated much of the land as the place went into disrepair. A grandson of Jeremiah and Deborah Shinoe, Joseph D. Head, who owned the 40 acres for awhile,appears to have tried to protect the cemetery in 1920 by putting an exclusion in the deed. Excluding a cemetery, 4 rods square (66 X 66 feet)from the sale of property. This exclusion was inadvertently left out when the 40 acres was lumped together with other parcels and offered at a sheriffs sale after going back to the bank during the depression. New buyers were not aware of the exclusion. By 1975, when the stones were read, they were just leaning up against a big tree. By a few years later, the tree was gone and much of the area was cultivated. I, Lyle Potter, am making efforts to identify those that are buried there. Four of the burials are ancestors of mine and the others all appear to be people that lived in or near Section 36. It is my belief that there are likely many more burials there than the stones found over 125 years later. The Coates, Durley, Bailey and Butler members were related to each other and others were neighbors. I believe that there may be other burials for those names as well as Pennypacker, Head, Eastman and others.
Coates Durley Cemetery is located on a farmstead in Harrison Township, Grant County, Wisconsin. It was originally located on the south portion of a 40 acre tract described as NW 1/4 of SE 1/4 of Section 36. Burials appear to have been made in the 1840-1870 time period, but it was not cared for over time and landowners cultivated much of the land as the place went into disrepair. A grandson of Jeremiah and Deborah Shinoe, Joseph D. Head, who owned the 40 acres for awhile,appears to have tried to protect the cemetery in 1920 by putting an exclusion in the deed. Excluding a cemetery, 4 rods square (66 X 66 feet)from the sale of property. This exclusion was inadvertently left out when the 40 acres was lumped together with other parcels and offered at a sheriffs sale after going back to the bank during the depression. New buyers were not aware of the exclusion. By 1975, when the stones were read, they were just leaning up against a big tree. By a few years later, the tree was gone and much of the area was cultivated. I, Lyle Potter, am making efforts to identify those that are buried there. Four of the burials are ancestors of mine and the others all appear to be people that lived in or near Section 36. It is my belief that there are likely many more burials there than the stones found over 125 years later. The Coates, Durley, Bailey and Butler members were related to each other and others were neighbors. I believe that there may be other burials for those names as well as Pennypacker, Head, Eastman and others.

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  • Added: 23 May 2016
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2613185