There is a cemetery just off Route 66 in Livingston County, Ill., that was devoted exclusively for the area’s poor-farm residents. I didn’t know about it, nor did many other people for a long time, because the Poor Farm Cemetery had been neglected for years.
That has changed. For the past two years, volunteers have helped clean and tidy up the grounds, which were the the final resting place for about 120 poor-farm workers from about 1860 to 1934, according to an article in the Bloomington Pantagraph. A new marker commemorating those who were buried there was added.
The cemetery is close to Livingston Manor in Pontiac, which is the county nursing home.