Mound Cemetery, Coles' County, IL - Mound Cemetery was laid out in 1863 on a natural hill which overlooked the surround country for miles; originally it was about ten feet higher than now, but it was cut down to make the grades easier.  It was used by the Indians a s a burial place before a white man ever saw it and many bones and relics were found when the grading was done.
 

It will be noticed that the driveways all follow natural lines - it is the cattle-path idea of landscape work, following the easiest way.  And yet it is a fine apiece of landscaping as will be found in the state of Illinois.
 

This is the original part which lies west of the western gate.  The state road was changed to go around the hill instead of over it.  All east of the western gate was in Jack Oak timber and so remained until in the eighties.  The land south was also heavily timbered.  Both tracts were cleared by the Linders: the one on the east was sold to the city, the stumps blasted out and the first addition to Mound Cemetery was thus made.
 

A stone was erected right on the topmost lot on the hill, and the children thought it fitting to place on the stone a remainder of the fact that John B. Hill founded Mound Cemetery in 1863.

Excerpted from a newspaper article by Hardy F. Hill appearing in the Charleston Courier.

There are actually two cemeteries located here, Mound and Roselawn and are considered one now.
 

Several of my Monticue line is buried here as well as my maternal 4th great grandmother, Martha Bundy Monticue Wilson.  See Martha's life story here.
 

According to Coles County, IL burial/cemetery records, the following Monticue's are buried in the Mound/Roselawn cemetery:  James L., Walter C., Better R. Margaret, and Albert Preston Monticue.