O’Fallon City Cemetery Walk – October 7, 2017

O’Fallon, Illinois – The O’Fallon Historic Preservation Commission will be hosting a Cemetery Walk of the O’Fallon City Cemetery (601 North Oak Street) on Saturday, October 7, 2017 at 3 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

“I encourage everyone to attend this historic tour of O’Fallon’s City Cemetery,” said Mayor Herb Roach. “The Historic Preservation Commission will have guides and reenactors along the walk.”  

The walk will begin at the flag pole just west of the cemetery main entrance, with a walk to 501 North Cherry and include stops at these historic grave markers:

• William R. Dorris -- high school founder and pioneer banker
• Ernest H. Smiley -- pharmacist and pioneer banker
• Henry A. Schwarz -- O'Fallon mayor and crusading prosecutor
• Charles Druessel -- Civil War veteran who marched with General Sherman
• Mary Ann Nash Welch -- coal miner's widow 

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If you would like more information about this topic, please contact Brian Keller at 618-410-9020.