Had to wear my coat this morning because it was so chilly. it's still only 47 degrees with a high of 61. I LOVE IT!!! Right now I am just drinking coffee and enjoying myself while I wait to go over to Kirins to help her unpack. You see they just moved over here to Fox River Grove like 5 minutes from my house. They are renting an old schoolhouse/church that has been modified into a residence. Here is a history of the land....
The Chunn family established the site in 1843 with a family burial. Some sources state burials go back to 1809. Long time residents assert it was an old Indian burial ground. Chunn’s is situated atop a hill, near Spring Creek and behind the former Oak Glen Schoolhouse, now a residence. Closed to burials, the last known interment was in 1910. Unfortunately, many burial records have been lost or are nonexistent to verify some of these dates. Only one record had been found of a Civil War soldier at rest here.
In 1944, a transcription and stone inventory was done by Arnett C. Lines, a Barrington historian. At that time the cemetery was overgrown and neglected. Many of the grave stones have been damaged or lost since Mr. Lines' reading. For the last ten years the Barrington Area Library has this cemetery listed online for all to view.
About 20 years ago, this obscured cemetery was clearedof debris and overgrowth by a group of local citizens. All remaining grave stones were placed in the center of the grounds, in a raised locale around two oak trees.
In 1843, Mr. Frank Houghtailing donated a one-acre tract of land to be used for a school and the balance to be used as a burial place. The school was known as the Oak Glen School and the cemetery as Oak Glen Cemetery, after a nearby mill and creek. Mr. Thomas Chunn was an early settler in the area, and the Chunn school district was established in 1835. He was buried in this cemetery in 1843. The oldest marker dates to 1809, and at least one Civil war veteran, John C. Kelly, is buried there. It is a small cemetery with about a dozen markers. Maps of the cemetery from after World War II show about 50 graves, with possibly 50 more. The remains of the Houghtailing family were later moved to the Algonquin Cemetery. Arnett Lines read this cemetery September 21, 1944. At that time he found only two stones standing in a thicket of bushes and trees, behind the Houghtailing farm. When Arnett Lines read the stone of John G. Kelley, only half of the stone was there. He read it as though John's parents M. A. Kelly and Wm. G. Kelly were also buried in the same grave. In 1992, when the other half of John G. Kelley's stone was recovered, the words "son of" become very clear. Mr. William Kelley and Mary Klinck Kelley moved to the West Coast leaving the grave of their son John, a Civil War veteran, behind.
First school house in Fox
River Grove - built in
1846. This is the first
Fox River Grove building
to receive a McHenry
County Historical Soci-
ety plaque.
Currently a private
residence—not open to
the public.
Here is my album of pictures of the house and Burial Ground.
Chunn Land here in FRG IL. 
hope to see you around ! 
by sometime soon 
...sorry it's been a while. 
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