Loomis Cemetery, Chesterfield Township - Macoupin County IL

Established 1848.
Located on Macoupin Station Road, southeast of Chesterfield, IL. Altitude 605ft.
This cemetery is taken care of. Many of the stones have been redone or reset but many are too deteriorated to read.

Contact info:
Jeff Eldred of Chesterfield is in charge of Loomis Cemetery.
Donations payable to the Loomis Cemetery Fund are accepted by the Chesterfield State Bank, Chesterfield, Illinois 62630.

There are empty spots, which are unmarked graves.
Gloria & Doug Frazier (complete thru 2006 - last burial read Mar 2006).

Research done by Ellen Moss

I have done some further research on the Josiah Whipple Family buried in this cemetery. I think it will clear up two of the hard to read tombstones (they are really bad; time hasn’t been good to them).

Loomis Cemetery
Macoupin County Illinois
Chesterfield Township Section 1

The Whipple family were abolitionists, had a strong faith and members of the Congregational Church. Very little biographical info is available about the family. Many of the Church records are now gone….
Deacon Josiah Whipple and Almira Packard Whipple had 3 Children, only 2 of them are buried in this cemetery:
http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/print.cgi?packard::1044.html

1, Albert A. Whipple – 8 years old in the 1850 US Fed Census, Chesterfield, Macoupin County, IL.  So, he died in 1855, which would make him 13yrs+

Another photo from Findagrave.com:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=91613628
 
2. Sarah J. Whipple – Listing is correct.
 
3. 3rd daughter, Clara E. Whipple Rew is buried with her father in Millerton, Wayne County, Iowa.  http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=92340281
 
4. The mother of Deacon Josiah Whipple is also buried in this cemetery:

Sally Batchelder Whipple – In the 1840 US Fed Census, Macoupin county, IL – I believe she is the Female 50 thru 59
She was born Aug 1780, so she would be 59+ years old. Deacon Josiah Whipple didn’t marry until 1841.
 
[Josiah Whipple]
Home in 1840 (City, County, State):
Macoupin, Illinois
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 50 thru 59: 1
 
 
Maiden name, Sally Batchelder/Batcheller - (lots of variations on spelling of last name)
b: Aug 1780, Grafton, Worcester County,  MA (dau. of Perley Batcheller (b. 7 Sep 1745, son of Joseph) and Mary Merriam) Birth: Sally Batchellor     
Birth     Aug 1780  Grafton, Worcester County,  MA Parents: Perley, Mary. See birth: Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988. Ancestry.com
(Husband: Nathaniel Whipple d: 8 Aug 1821, Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts)  -
Marriage: Nathaniel Whipple; 7 Dec 1806                      Sally Batchellor Grafton (Worcester co.), Massachusetts.
Family history: Batchelder, Batcheller genealogy: Descendants of Rev. Stephen Bachiler of England ... who settled the town of New Hampton, N.H. 1898.  p. 400.
https://archive.org/stream/batchelderbatche00pier#page/400/mode/1up
See death: September 1845.  A partial list of the descendants of Matthew Whipple, the elder, of Bocking, Essex County, England - vol 1. Descendants of Deacon James Whipple of Grafton. 1965. p. 39 (46 of 393 digital version).  Ancestry.com
Death:          
Sep. 17, 1845
Burial: Loomis Cemetery
Chesterfield
Macoupin County
Illinois, USA.
 
 
Other relatives to this family, buried in the cemetery (that I’ve discovered) are:
 
Daughter to Sally Batchelder Whipple; sister to Deacon Josiah Whipple:
 
Maiden name, Mary Merriam Whipple (Lawson)
Marriage 1:  Charles D (Dana) Monroe    Male   Mary M. Whipple      4 Oct 1837     Grafton             Worchester MA.
Marriage 2:  LAWSON, C (Zadoc) B;        MONROE, MARY M MRS 1853-03-15    6          110     397             MADISON County, IL.
http://www.ilsos.gov/isavital/marriagesrch.jsp
See daughter's bio: Mrs. M. A. Ibbetson - The history of a famous court house located at Carlinville, Illinois (1934) p. 42.
https://archive.org/stream/historyoffamousc00brow#page/42/mode/1up
 
 
Nephew to Sally Batchelder Whipple (Her brother Perley’s son):

Samuel S. Batchelder
Family history: Batchelder, Batcheller genealogy: Descendants of Rev. Stephen Bachiler of England ... who settled the town of New Hampton, N.H. 1898.  p. 439 Person 893 Samuel S. bn 21 Jun 1816
https://archive.org/stream/batchelderbatche00pier#page/439/mode/1up
 
 
Sister and brother-in-law to Almira Packard Whipple (Deacon Josiah’s wife):
Listed in the Macoupin county history as teachers at the “Old Seminary”
Maiden name, Clarissa Packard (Cooley) –
See marriage: Clarissa Packard    Marriage Intention (Marriage)        6 Oct 1832                 Orren (Orrin) Cooley. Cummington, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.  Ancestry.com
See Burial:
Loomis Cemetery
Chesterfield
Macoupin County
Illinois, USA.  Findagrave.com
 
Orrin Cooley – (preached a few years, but never ordained, his health gave out, and so he was a teacher)
b.18 Aug 1801, South Deerfield, MA - d. 16 Oct 1857, Chesterfield, IL. -
Obit: A general catalogue of the Divinity School of Yale College a brief biographical record of its members in the first half century of its existence as a distinct department, 1822-1872. Published 1873.  p. 15.  https://archive.org/stream/generalcatalogue00yalerich#page/15/mode/1up
Family history: The Cooley genealogy: the descendants of Ensign Benjamin Cooley, an early settler of Springfield and Longmeadow, Massachusetts.   p. 432.  Note: the death place was Chesterfield, IL, not OH.
Death notice: Thursday, October 29, 1857.  Paper: Boston Recorder (Boston, MA), Volume: XLII, Issue: 44, Page: 175.
Bio:  A History of the Churches and Ministers, and of Franklin Association in Franklin County, Mass., and an Appendix Respecting the County. Theophilus Packard, S. K. Whipple, 1854. p. 147.  https://archive.org/stream/historyofchurc00pack#page/147/mode/1up
 
 
Sister and brother-in-law to Almira Packard Whipple (Deacon Josiah’s wife):
Note: Another sister and brother-in-law is buried In Waverly East Cemetery, Morgan County, IL, they once lived in Macoupin County, IL:
 
Maiden name, Mehitable Sprout Packard (Mrs. Oakes Shaw) –
Marriage: Mehitable S Packard     Marriage        Plainfield (MA)         31 May 1812             Oaker (Oakes) Shaw. Ancestry.com.
Burial: Waverly East Cemetery, Morgan County, IL. (b: 29 Jun 1794, Brockton, MA   d. 3 Sep 1859             66y      Wife of O. Shaw
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ilmaga/morgan/cemetery/wav_s.html
 
Oakes Shaw – 1st Postmaster of Newburg/Cummington (Palmyra, Macoupin County, IL)
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t99609t32;view=1up;seq=842
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiuo.ark:/13960/t08w3b11f;view=1up;seq=477
Marriage: Mehitable S Packard     Marriage        Plainfield (MA)         31 May 1812             Oaker (Oakes) Shaw. Ancestry.com 
Burial: Waverly East Cemetery, Morgan County, IL.   5 Dec 1856      63y      Born Hampshire Co., Mass.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ilmaga/morgan/cemetery/wav_s.html
See brief bio: History of Macoupin County, Illinois ...: And Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers. 1879.   p. Son-in-Law's bio, Thomas W. Chiles - p. 218, 223,
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112004315344;view=1up;seq=330
 
FYI - A Daughter and Son to Sally Batchelder Whipple are buried in Alton Cemetery:
Clarissa Whipple Dye – (Wife of John Dye)
Perley B Whipple (Perley Batchelder Whipple, aka P. B. Whipple) - Treasurer of the Anti-slave Convention of 1837 with Rev. Elijah Parish Lovejoy. (Rev. Lovejoy married Perley and his 1st wife)
Note: One of the early business directories list J Whipple of Chesterfield, IL as a partner in Perley’s dry goods store.  (What are brothers for?)
Burial:
Alton Cemetery
Alton
Madison County
Illinois, USA
Findagrave.com
 




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