The first volume of Undergound@Springdale is now available in print version.
Featured are expanded histories of 37 burials, plus the previously-unpublished “Springdale’s largest funeral,” with Gov. Frank Lowden serving as pallbearer.
It is available, with color photos, from Lulu.com.
- Geer: from Connecticut to Springdale
- An Austrian consul
- Sara A. Ostell: the Springdale Cemetery spirit medium
- Alexander Lisk: the berry farmer
- The other Easton: Sarah Hall Easton (extensively expanded)
- Edna Easton: the baby who left a legacy
- A Mohammedan in Springdale
- Samuel Tart and the Old Settlers’ Association
- Abraham Core: the oldest soul in Springdale Cemetery
- Natillia Voodry
- Springdale Cemetery’s missing bicycle
- Springdale Cemetery’s “Shodder” family
- Caroline Cunningham of Connecticut
- F. O. Cunningham: Penstemon Society, Ingersoll and More
- The Barker Family: a century-long Springdale story
- Lucy and Jacob Simonton
- Klotz—short-term residents who stayed forever
- Eichenbergers arrive from Switzerland – and points between
- A Young Black Woman’s History Preserved
- Anna Belschner: omitted from the Springdale index
- Who was Blacky?
- Staying at work—forever?
- Lost limbs of Springdale
- Beyond Birdie
- The murderers of Springdale Cemetery–and their victims
- Printer dies in motorcycle accident
- From across the river: Sniffin Family
- Little Elizabeth and the spider
- Ruth Harris: a watery death
- James Rhind: Some people travel a long way to be buried in Springdale
- Love wasn’t in the cards
- Girl pallbearers for Nellie Chenoweth
- Dying for baseball
- Leap kills man of 83
- Peoria’s Oldest Native Son
- Dr. Kittie
- Newsman wrote his own history
- Leslie D. Puterbaugh: Springdale’s largest funeral
