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At St. Mary’s Cemetery there is the centerpiece Bishops’ Mausoleum, but there are also three other family mausoleums, one of which is the John J. Murto mausoleum. I was curious as to who he was, figuring...

Bruce Ethan Borland Born: Nov 4, 1958, Peoria, Illinois Died: Oct 25, 1999 (age 40) Minot, North Dakota Burial: North Limestone Presbyterian Cemetery, Hanna City, Illinois A Bartonville native...

No, this isn’t Peoria, or even Illinois but while in Cleveland for a long weekend (in 2021) I convinced my family to take a short side trip… Just like Springdale for a newbie, it is very large and...

“I am a little nervous about singing this one. But I have to.,” said Mary Chapin Carpenter before ending her May 17, 1997 concert at the Peoria Civic Center Theatre with a final encore of “John...

While driving around Banner Marsh I decided to pull up the Find-A-Grave app to see if there were any interesting cemeteries to check out. The map showed Wright cemetery, with some granite headstones,...

Born: March 14, 1835, Greenville, New Hampshire Died: March 24, 1906, Biloxi, Mississippi (71 years) Buried: Springdale Cemetery, Peoria, Illinois Biography Gilman Willard Avery was born in Greenville,...