In the Whitefield Center Methodist cemetery located a half mile south of the Red
Town corners in Whitefield township, is another of the better than a century-old
cemeteries that has in recent years received care and attention.
Here are
pictured the Hunt lots as viewd from the northwest corner of the little
cemetery.
The tall, obelisk-type of stone of dark gray granite is that of
Richard Hunt. This person is thought to be the only soldier of the Black Hawk
War buried in this cemetery.
The large stone in the foreground bearing
the monogram and the name of Hunt almost hides the shaft stone that is the
marker for Mahlon Hunt, a brother of Lyman Hunt, the foreground stone. The stone
of Mahlon Hunt is one of eight in the cemetery to be flagged each Memorial Day
time by John Boose of Henry.
Mahlon Hunt, who was the grandfather of Ola
Hunt, Sparland; Lawrence Hunt, Peoria; and Elmer Hunt of Henry; was a soldier in
the Civil War and was wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga Creek in 1863, dying
a few weeks later. He was first buried in a Chattanooga, Tenn., cemetery and
later was removed to the family lot in Whitefield Center.
The recent
interest in neatness in the Whitefield Center cemetery is carried on by
descendants of families buried there. Among those locally helping with this work
are Lucian Fosdick and Clifford Fountain.
John Boose, who has been
flagging the graves since Memorial Day, 1947, reports that the cemetery has in
the late years become a place of pride in its care.
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