ESMOND GREENVIEW CEMETERY is located on the Southwest quarter of Section 18. The cemetery is south of Esmond on the Esmond Road just north of Mowers Road.

This is a well kept cemetery with fence completely surrounding the grounds. A gate secures the area. Parking is provided along the west frontage. The driveway appears to be in the center portion of the cemetery.

The plat book of 1871 indicates the original cemetery property was owned by the Dettmer family. The 1892 plat map indicates the school and cemetery in this location, just north of Mowers Road on Esmond Road.

A petition was filed as a “record of the organization of the Greenview Cemetery Association in South Grove Township, DeKalb County, IL. It was filed by:

ELMER DETTMER         GEORGE DETTMER
HARRY WADEY            HARLOWE WILTSE
ROSS DETTMER            CHARLES DETTMER
HENRY RIEMSNIDER   JOSEPH SCHNEE

Filed 01 May 1916.”

Mis. Book G pg. 264.

Other documents were recorded as the property was surveyed and the cemetery  subdivided into cemetery lots, passageways and street as indicated on the annexed plat. Exhibits of these documents are published as recorded at the courthouse.

dated 25 May,    1916   Plat Book D pg 60.
dated        1952     Plat Book I pg 13

The alphabetical index for the cemetery begins on page no. 34. The page numbers referred to in the index are the numbers shown on the TOP of the pages as each cemetery presented is a completed book.