About & Contact
Kinder Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery in Cahokia Township, Macoupin County, Illinois. It is cared for by volunteers who maintain the grounds and these records.
A hidden history of pioneer roots
We are the Kinder Cemetery Association, governed by a Board of Trustees made up of descendants of the families laid to rest here. We are continually seeking partners in our preservation purpose.
If you are interested in helping continue the preservation of this beautiful, secluded, historical resting place, please reach out.
Visiting
The cemetery lies in Cahokia Township, Macoupin County, Illinois — southeast of the former village of Hornsby (once called Clyde), at approximately 39.1553° N, 89.7367° W. Please treat the grounds and markers with care — many are more than a century old.
Contact us
If you have questions, corrections, or information to add about someone buried here, we would be glad to hear from you.
- Email: info@kindercemetery.org
How you can help
These records were transcribed from the cemetery's original charts and ledgers. Some entries are incomplete, and a few dates and relationships are still being checked against the originals. If you can add to what is here — or if you have photographs, family records, or corrections — please get in touch using the details above. Every correction we receive is checked and folded back into the Burial Directory.
Further records & reading
Kinder Cemetery also appears in several outside resources, which may help with research beyond what is transcribed here:
- Kinder Cemetery on Find a Grave — volunteer-contributed memorials and headstone photographs (listed there under the cemetery's older name, Oakland Cemetery).
- Graveyards.com and Genealogy Trails — Macoupin County cemetery listings with location and map references.
- Henry B. Blevins, “Historical Sketch of Cahokia Township, Macoupin County, Illinois” (1916) — a pioneer's first-hand account of the township's founding families. Read it on JSTOR.
About this website
The cemetery's information used to exist only as scanned images, which meant search engines and visitors could not search the names. This website presents every record as real, searchable text so that families and researchers can find their ancestors. The original scans are preserved as the source of record.