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I’m getting ready for a trip to Indiana and planning a little grave hunting while I’m there. This is a collection of cemeteries, graves, and other places of interest that I’m going to look for, when I’m in Chicago.

Thornton Township Cemetery

• 179th Street and Ridge Road in Thornton
• Roel Van Vuuren (1793-1859) with his wife
• Grietje Baardwijck (1800)
• Update January 2023: these graves are reported to be in Homewood Memorial Gardens (map)

Mount Greenwood Cemetery

• (map)
• (773) 233-0136
• Closed for the evening when we visited – check hours next time!
• Dirk Van Vuuren (b. 12 Sep 1834, d. 21 Feb 1906) with his wife 
• Maartje Van Vuuren (b. 25 Apr 1835, d. 1 Aug 1911)

Oak Glen Cemetery

• Lansing, IL (map)
• Trientje (Van Vuuren) Hine, d. Nov. 7, 1949 (married to Albert Hine, who remarried to Myndert Knynsberg after Trientje/Kate died)

South Suburban Genealogical and Historical Society

• Visited August, 2010 – click here to read post
• ssghs.or
• DeJongh and Allied Families by Dirk P. DeYoung, published 1934 in Avenel NJ
• Photocopy of blue book
• other publications

Chicago Public Library

• Didn’t make it there. Definitely try again next time!
• De Jong family, heirs of Jacob and Jan De Jong, quit-claim deed, 1886 Dec 30. Oversize-CRCC 1.3
• Jacob De Jong, naturalization papers, Chicago, 1855 Jan 2. Oversize-CRCC 1.
• Special Collections and Preservation Division
• Neighborhood History Research Collection
• Calumet Region Community Collection
• 1850-1990 [Bulk dates, 1850-1975]
• 5 linear ft., 364 photographs, 17 oversize folders
• Call number: Archives_CRCC