Oquawka Cemetery
Oquawka, Henderson County, Illinois
40° 56'11.15" N 90° 56'35.95"W
Mary Ann "Polly" Palmer, daughter of William and Jane Gill Palmer, lived in Oquawka, Illinois with her first husband, William Cousland, and their three children, Jane, Sumner, and Phebe. Some of the family are buried in the Oquawka Cemetery. William Cousland died in 1846 and Sumner in 1853. Jane Cousland Mickey died in 1915 and her husband Samuel Mickey in 1894. Also buried here are four children of Samuel and Jane Mickey: William, Gracie, and unnamed twin daughters, as well as George H. Darnell, infant son of Joseph and Phebe Cousland Darnell. James Cousland, brother of William Cousland, has a stone here, partially obscured by the trunk of a tree.
Mary Ann, who remarried to Levi Wilkinson, is buried in Oak Lawn Cemetery In Oakland, Iowa.
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