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Parkholm Cemetery

Parkholm Cemetery, on Mannheim Road (at one time known as Covell Road) in LaGrange Park, was part of the Covell farmlands and was originally known as the Covell Cemetery in the 19th Century.  The Covell's and many of the early area residents are buried within its confines.  It was later called the LaGrange Cemetery before it was renamed Parkholm Cemetery.

The following is from the American Cemetery, August 1936, Page 16, and relayed by William E. Hill March 1942

Thomas R. Covell was buried in the Covell "wood lot" in 1846, the first burial in what became, officially, in 1887, Oak Hill Cemetery.

The original charter was secured on January 3,  1887 from Henry C. Dement, Secretary of State by Marius C. Covell, Franklin D. Cossitt, Dr. Levi, R. Jerome and Chas. W. Richmond.

Thomas R. Covell settled in St. Louis, Mr., in 1818, later came up the Mississippi, and Illinois Rivers settling near Ottawa on one of the most beautiful streams in Illinois.  It was known as "Covell's Creek".  From Ottawa he moved to Plainfield where Marius C. was born in 1833.  Thomas and another man bought 1400 acres of land two miles north of LaGrange Depot, where he built a long cabin and later, in 1856 a brick house.  They paid $1.25 an acre for this land.

The cemetery later became Parkholm Cemetery.

Last Modified:  05/03/2003