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We search for abandoned & hard-to-find cemeteries sometimes in unusual places.

09/02/2026

In Wabash County, Illinois on March 1, 2026 we continued our hopping, and it paid off. We found two more fantastic cemeteries. The first 11 photos are of Coffee Cemetery. It held some very large obelisks as well as some smaller headstones. As the sun tried its best to peek through the clouds it set an eerie tone that seemed perfect for our hopping. We saw names of Skinner, Keen, Stewart and Denham along with many others.
The rest of the photos are from Keen Cemetery. It sat on a small rounded hill in the middle of a field that made it almost seem like a graveyard set for a movie. We found family names for Sharp, Fife, Compton, Anthis and of course Keen. It was a great day for hopping.

08/22/2026

LeGier - Lovellette Cemetery in Wabash County, Illinois sat on a large plot of land and had a mix of old and new headstones. Several headstones leaned against a cedar tree that had fallen and seemed to have crushed a few others. We also found a ceramic cat that looked so real that we had to touch it to see if it was a real cat that had frozen. Check it out in the photos. We hopped this one on March 3, 2026.

08/14/2026

Sometimes as we are searching for our hidden cemeteries, we drive by a large one that we can tell has really old looking headstones, so we stop to take pictures even though it was not on our list for that day. That was the case on March 1, 2026 for St. John's Lutheran Cemetery in Southern Illinois shown in the first 10 photos.
We then moved on to Wheeler Cemetery in Wabash County, Illinois. It held about 10 headstones. Most were so worn we could not read them. We were able to read one for a few Wright family members. It was a good find on this cold cloudy day.

08/11/2026

On March 1, 2026 we continued our hopping in Edwards County, Illinois. I have posted two hops here, and the first one is Wells Cemetery. The headstones we found were very spread out, and the writing worn down, therefore many were hard to read. However we were able to find family names for Painter and, of course, Wells.
The second hop was Friedens Cemetery which was located next to a church which bare the name Friedens-Evangelical-Church established in 1904. Names we found included Goebel, Raber and Schmidt. As a reminder we are located in Southwestern, Indiana, so hopping across the border to Illinois is less than an hour drive for us.

08/01/2026

On March 1, 2026 we drove to Wabash County, Illinois for some hopping. I have posted three separate cemeteries here, and you'll soon see why. The first is Wabash County Cemetery which has only one headstone for Jonathan Waterhouse from Nollinganshire, England. I'm sure he is of some historical interest in the area, but I'll let you followers research that on your own.
The second one is Simonds Cemetery. It has several interesting headstones. One for several folks who all are listed as dependents of Old Scotch Clan of Scotland.
The third is McClane-Kenner Cemetery that was an old fenced-in gravesite that held about 15 headstones. A perfect little "Hopper" graveyard that seemed a bit run down but still a pleasure to hop. Nearly every stone was for a McClane or Kenner family member.

07/23/2026

This hop has a great story behind it... Here we go.
We parked our van on a country road to the nearest point where we thought Palmer Cemetery was located. As we began to walk across a small field heading into the woods, a pickup truck stopped to ask what we were doing on the property that he watches over for his friend who was currently out of the state. We told him our plan to find the gravesite. He told us he knew who we were, Cemetery Hoppers, and that he could not let us do that without the man who owns the property's permission. He needed to contact him and drove to a barn where his phone was. Two of the Hoppers followed him while three of us (see photo) stayed back to wait for the others to return. When they returned, not only did the owner say it was okay for us Cemetery Hoppers to go to the gravesite, he told us we could park by his barn and instructed us how to follow the paths to get to the single headstone that was Palmer Cemetery (aka Family 2 Cemetery). He typically does not let people go back there deep in the woods, so we felt privileged for the granted permission. One Hopper had just had surgery, so she stayed behind and stayed on the phone with the landowner. (She later sent some photos of the hop to the landowner.) It was a confusing trail with many options for turns. After making a few wrong turns and backtracking a couple of times, we found a deep ravine that the owner had said to look for and eventually found our way to the headstone for Army Veteran J.C. Palmer. On our way back the rain began to fall, but it seemed so fitting for this hop as the headstone was alone deep in the woods. This Pike County, Indiana hop on Feb. 28, 2026 could have been one of our top 10 ever. Yay Hoppers.

07/18/2026

On Feb. 28, 2026 we drove towards a woods in Pike County, Indiana that we had visited before in an attempt to find Trailer Cemetery. Only this time, thanks to one of our followers, we had a slightly better idea of its location. We navigated down the dirt road, parked the van and headed into the woods. After searching for a few minutes, we crossed a rather steep bank and searched the other side of the dried creek. To this day I'm not sure how we found the four or five headstones that appeared to be nothing but rocks sticking out of the ground. And they were under a few branches that had fallen right on top of them. We dragged the branches off of the tiny headstones and knew that we had found the hidden graveyard that had evaded us in the past. Well done, Hoppers. What a great find.

07/04/2026

Happy Independence Day and 250th year of our United States. In honor of that, I'm posting a tiny cemetery that held four American flags with only eight headstones. We hopped Baldwin Cemetery on Feb. 28, 2026 in Daviess County, Indiana. It sat inside a nice metal pipe fence and held eight very white headstones. Besides the two Baldwins, William and John, it held a headstone for a James Horrell, a Richard Steen, a Polly Chapman, and a tiny one with two initials.
Also, a quick reminder that we Hoppers will be presenting on Monday, July 13th from 6-8pm at the Boonville Warrick County Public Library. Come see us and see what and how we hop these fantastic hidden graveyards.

06/16/2026

Glendale Public Cemetery in Daviess County, Indiana held a very loud secret. As we approached this tiny abandoned gravesite, not only could we see the small rounded hill through the thick trees, but we could hear a loud buzz nearby. Once we reached the few headstones we eventually found, we stopped and figured out that the loud buzz was, in fact, a huge group of frogs at a pond that remained hidden due to the thickness of the trees. I took two videos hoping to share it with our followers and managed to get some of the croaking. Take the time to turn up your volume and listen if you want to. The only legible headstones we found were for two members of a Gregory family. One with the first name of Zilpha who died in 1862. Definitely a win for the Hoppers.

06/09/2026

On Feb. 28, 2026 in Daviess County, Indiana we found two small cemeteries that both sat on private property. After getting permission from the home owners, we hopped both. The first was Lett Cemetery with four headstones that lay flat on the ground, nearly buried. After scraping away most of the dirt, we were able to read each of the Lett family headstones.
The second was a tiny graveyard set behind and between two huge pine trees. Carroll Cemetery was on the property of a super kind homeowner who had repaired the main headstone and did a great job of resetting it.

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