The West Aurora Cemetery Association is looking for volunteers to help spruce up the Cemetery Saturday, April 25 from 9 a.m. to noon at 601 Wilder St., Aurora. Rain date will be May 25. Some of the items we will be working on include: general garbage pick-up, weeding, bush trimming,
The annual meeting of the West Aurora Cemetery Association will be held Wednesday, Dec. 3 at 6 p.m. at the Holmstad Town Center building in Batavia, at the corner of Route 31 and Fabyan Parkway (it is the only building with balconies). Anyone interested in this unique, historic Cemetery is
Amid headstones at West Aurora Cemetery Sunday, May 25, an annual Memorial Day eve observance celebrated past and present members of the armed services. The annual ceremony is sponsored by Phillip H. Sheridan Camp No. 2, Illinois Son of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW). Michael Zafran, Department of
The West Aurora Cemetery Board invites the public to an historic celebration of our fallen heroes with a presentation about five years after the Civil War, presented by the Sons of Civil War Veterans at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 25. Attendees should enter the cemetery on Wilder Street between Illinois
The annual meeting of the West Aurora Cemetery Board will be held at 6 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 21, at the historic GAR Hall, 23 East Downer Place, Aurora. Anyone interested in the unique and historic cemetery is invited to attend. The cemetery is the resting place of more than 200
The West Aurora Cemetery will hold its annual Memorial Day celebration at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 26. The National organization, “Sons Of Union Veterans of the Civil War,” encampment from Rockford will present an historic program in Civil War uniforms. This cemetery has the graves of veterans from every of
The West Aurora Cemetery Board of Trustees will hold its annual meeting at 1 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 26. The Cemetery is the oldest in Aurora, and the resting place of many of Aurora’s founders. It is listed on the National Historic Register. We will meet at the home of one
West Aurora Cemetery will be host to its annual Memorial Day ceremony, at 2 p.m., Sunday, May 28, at 543 Wilder Street in Aurora. The public is invited. Admission is free. An historic program will be presented by The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Philip Sheridan Post
West Aurora Cemetery, opened in 1824, will present its’ annual Memorial Day ceremony, at 2 p.m., Sunday, May 28 at 543 Wilder Street. Please bring a folding chair, open to the public. This cemetery, the oldest in Aurora was donated to the City by Clark and Hanna Wilder. Many of
West Aurora Cemetery Association, a nonprofit, needs volunteers to help clean up the Cemetery, 543 Wilder Street in Aurora, Saturday, May 6, at 9 a.m. to start. Cleanup will prepare the Cemetery for an annual Memorial Day ceremony at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 28.Volunteers are needed to help remove weeds,
The West Aurora Cemetery Board of Trustees will hold its annual meeting at 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, at the home of one of the trustees. Anyone with family buried at the Cemetery or any interested community members are welcome to attend, The Cemetery is the oldest in Aurora and
Philip H Sheridan Camp #2 Aurora, Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War will sponsor a ceremony from 11 a.m. to noon Saturday, May 21 to honor all 338 veterans of the Civil War buried at the cemetery. There will be posting of colors, singing, speeches by dignitaries,
The West Aurora Cemetery Board of Trustees has postponed its annual meeting because of COVID concerns. A notice will be published when a meeting date is determined. The meeting will be open to the public, and anyone interested in this historic cemetery is welcome to attend. Detailed information about the
Friends of West Aurora Cemetery, a nonprofit caretaking of a cemetery home to Aurora pioneers and Civil War veterans, is offering donated bottled honey to 10 donors of $25. According to a Facebook statement, “We… have received a challenge from a local beekeeper, Wilder Side Honey, to plant a tree
A Civil War cannon belches flame and smoke Sunday at the West Aurora Cemetery during the 55th annual Memorial Day tribute to veterans.
The West Aurora Cemetery, 543 Wilder Street, will be host to an historic Memorial Day ceremony at 11 a.m. Sunday, May 30. Please note that this ceremony will be Sunday, not Memorial Day Monday. The program will be presented by the Philip H Sheridan Camp #2, Illinois Sons of Union
The West Aurora Cemetery is seeking volunteers to help prepare an area in the Cemetery to plant native prairie plants. The group will meet at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 10. at the 601 Wilder Street entrance. Inspired by the Illinois Monarch Project, the Cemetery offers a perfect location to turn
The West Aurora Cemetery is seeking volunteers to help prepare an area in the Cemetery to plant native prairie plants. We will meet at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 27, at the 601 Wilder Street entrance. Inspired by the Illinois Monarch Project, the Cemetery offers a perfect location to turn a
The annual meeting of the West Aurora Cemetery Association is postponed until further notice because of the pandemic. A notice will be published with The Voice when a meeting can be scheduled. —Maureen Granger, Cemetery trustee
By Jan Mangers, West Aurora Cemetery trustee, president The West Aurora Cemetery has been in existence since 1834. Originally known as the West Aurora Burying Ground, it was donated to the city government of Aurora by Clark and Hannah Wilder in 1848. They lived to see their son, William Wallace
