{"id":29,"date":"2011-04-05T09:47:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T09:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stcharlestownship.org\/dev\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2020-01-08T09:14:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T15:14:01","slug":"cemetery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.stcharlestownship.org\/index.php\/cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"Cemetery District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 1945, St, Charles Township formed a cemetery department to assume care and maintenance of North and South cemeteries, which were privately owned at the time. Today, the Cemetery District encompasses six locations:<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"636\">\n<colgroup>\n<col width=\"64\"><\/col>\n<col span=\"3\" width=\"103\"><\/col>\n<col width=\"160\"><\/col>\n<col width=\"103\"><\/col>\n<\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr height=\"20\">\n<td width=\"64\" height=\"20\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"103\"><strong>Cemetery<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"103\"><strong>Location<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"103\"><strong>Founded<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"160\"><strong>Township Owned<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"103\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr height=\"23\">\n<td height=\"23\"><\/td>\n<td>North<\/td>\n<td>North 5<span><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span> Ave<\/span><\/td>\n<td>1840<\/td>\n<td>1945<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr height=\"23\">\n<td height=\"23\"><\/td>\n<td>South<\/td>\n<td>South 7<span><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span> Ave<\/span><\/td>\n<td>1815<\/td>\n<td>1945<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr height=\"20\">\n<td height=\"20\"><\/td>\n<td>Little Woods<\/td>\n<td>Dunham Road<\/td>\n<td>1856<\/td>\n<td>1951<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr height=\"23\">\n<td height=\"23\"><\/td>\n<td>Union<\/td>\n<td>North 5<span><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span> Ave<\/span><\/td>\n<td>1900<\/td>\n<td>1972<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr height=\"20\">\n<td height=\"20\"><\/td>\n<td>Prairie<\/td>\n<td>Crane Road<\/td>\n<td>1849<\/td>\n<td>1957<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr height=\"20\">\n<td height=\"20\"><\/td>\n<td>Round Grove<\/td>\n<td>Mosley Lane<\/td>\n<td>1849<\/td>\n<td>1997<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>All six cemeteries (approximately 45 acres) are carefully maintained, although South and Round Grove are no longer active interment locations. The Cemetery District operations are funded by a small tax levy on St Charles Township property.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">In November, 2015, the Union Cemetery opened the Columbaria Union Cemetery located to the east end of the cemetery.\u00a0 A Columbaria is a brick or stone structure with niches in which urns containing ashes are buried.\u00a0 The Columbaria Union Cemetery is a beautiful picturesque setting for the interment of cremains. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">1<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In 1945, St, Charles Township formed a cemetery department to assume care and maintenance of North and South cemeteries, which were privately owned at the time. Today, the Cemetery District encompasses six locations: Cemetery Location Founded Township Owned North North 5th Ave 1840 1945 South South 7th Ave 1815 1945 Little Woods Dunham Road [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stcharlestownship.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stcharlestownship.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stcharlestownship.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stcharlestownship.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stcharlestownship.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.stcharlestownship.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"http:\/\/www.stcharlestownship.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stcharlestownship.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}