A little north of the now absorbed town of Chilson is the Chilson cemetery. It is one of the oldest in the county having its beginnings in 1837. It is located at the northeast corner of the east half of the southwest quarter of Section 28 up on a lovely hill. The township spent thousands of dollars in putting up a beautiful wrought iron fence and will work with some scouts to restore the broken stones there.

Genoa township in which it is situated has information that some of the burials include the first settlers of the area. When the original owner Nicholas Kriesler sold the property in 1867, he excluded the three acres on which the cemetery stood. He later sold the burial ground to Asa Rounsifer and it was sold to the Genoa township Burying Ground Association in 1870. This was then deeded over to the township in 1924 by the existing board of directors of the association.

As noted above, the township has made a number of improvements lately including a strong fence to keep vandals out and to protect the heritage of the township within. More plans are expected to keep the grounds respectable for any visitors. 

The transcriptions of the rural cemeteries of Livingston County by the DAR in the 1940's included this cemetery in Volume II and was compiled into a new index of all three and I used this index and turned it into an easy table which now also includes the actual cemetery name and is linked to individual cemetery pages. I have already filmed this cemetery and those images will be uploaded probably in the winter of  2002-2004.

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