Redford Cemetery

Title: Redford Cemetery Category: Community & Education / Cemeteries Clicks: 0 Listing added: Oct 19, 2006 PageRank: 0/10

In 1831 Israel Bell, a Pekin Village commissioner, gave one acre of land to the village for a cemetery. Originally called Bell Branch Cemetery after the river and the settlement founded by Bell in 1818, its name was changed to Redford Cemetery after Pekin's modern name, Redford Township.