Bott Cemetery, Jersey County IL

Located a little over a mile south of Brighton just off Rt. 111 & 67.
Cemetery is in Jersey County but near enough to Brighton Macoupin County IL that many Brighton people were buried in Bott Cemetery.
Partial Listing
Donated by Rick Doty
"The cemetery is well maintained."

"I suppose my kin had old sandstone headstones. The H. Yost is all that shows on one. (Henry Yost is Henry Yost Sr. b.1859 in Germany) The one next to his has to be his wife (nothing is visible it says). That should be Anna Elizabeth Huber Yost b. Feb. 1863 in Brighton, IL. (both are listed in the 1907 death registry) There should also be a Joseph Huber (her father) b. 1826 in Canton, Switzerland - d. 1910 (on the Veteran's Honor roll. and his wife Christina Sudman Huber b. 1829 in Bremen, Germany. The Huber Farm where all these people lived adjoined the land of the cemetery at one time (or close). My relative Patty Schetter still lives in the old homestead place (house still there and liveable). It's 3 miles outside Brighton - they had a pig farm for a long time."Becky

Words in brackets [ ] or parenthesis ( )are not on stone.

Return to Cemetery Main Page

Return to Macoupin County, Illinois Homepage