Dalton Cemetery

Go west from town of Universal on County Road W1800S to S200W. Turn North on S200W at Operating Engineers training site. Turn NW on S250W and go about 600 yards to a gravel trail. Location: N39 deg 37.952', W87 deg 30.369'

The trail goes next to a small lake to the top of a steep hill. The Cemetery is in the woods. There are Lindsey, and Tweedy stones from the 1850's to late 1800's located in the cemetery.

One large stone Listing Michael Dolton and wife Susan R. along with five infant children is located at the back of the lot. I believe the Dolton (Dalton) stone was probably placed there when the coal company purchased the Dalton farm in the 1940's and moved the Dalton family remains to the site. I don't know where the Dalton farm was exactly, but it was probably nearby. My grandfather's story is that they used to dig some coal and sell it locally for some cash. Grandpa James Francis Dalton left for California in about 1886 at age 16 after his father Michael died in 1882.

I visited the cemetery site in June 2009,
Submitted by: John C. Dalton, Great Grandson of Michael Dalton

Located on Peabody Property

Click on a surname to see a photo of the tombstone.

Surname	First Name	DOB	DOD	Age	Comments
Dolton	Alice A.		4 Dec 1864	11m	dau of M & S
Dolton	Michael	22 Mar 1814	20 Dec 1882
Dolton	Susan R.	21 May 1843	11 Aug 1898
Dolton	children, 3 stones
Infant
J. H. J.
Lindsay	John				Capt Co I 14 Ind Inf
Lindsey	Adaline		Feb 1866	38y	wife of James
Lindsey*	Infant Dau		16 Dec 1846		dau of J & M
Lindsey*	John		6 May 1889?	74y 6m 2d	Same John as above
Lindsey*	Mahala		20 Dec 1846	28y	wife of John
Lindsey	Nancy		5 Jun 1862		wife of Wm
Lindsey**	Rhoda		4 Nov 1875	78y 2m	wife of W B
Lindsey	William B.		5 Mar 1872	82y 4m
Tweedy
Tweedy	Elizabeth		27 Apr 1845	31y 27d	wife of Anthony
Tweedy	James		1 Aug 1850	79y 9m 13d
Tweedy	James S.		22 Feb 1850	1y 12d?	son of Anthony &Eliz
Tweedy	Phebe L.		11 Mar 1842	16y 5m 1d?
Tweedy	Sarah E.				dau of Anthony &Eliz

* These three are on the same stone
** Same stone In my notes, I have stones that read 1) Mary J, 2) Infant.   I don't know which stones they were.