Tombstone - Michael Cossel

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Michael Cossel

Mound Cemetery
Charleston, Coles, IL

thanks to Lois (Cossel) McMillin for this photo

note:

Michael Cossel's gravestone was viewed in June of 1998 by Lois G. Cossel McMillin in the Mound cemetery, Charleston, IL.  Though the stone had originally been in the Cossel cemetery a mile north of the Mound cemetery, a 2nd great grandson, Lewis Sefton Linder, relocated it to Mound as the Cossel cemetery was badly overgrown.  (Cossel Creek runs from near the Cossel cemetery south past the western edge of the Mound cemetery in Charleston.) The wording on the stone was:

    MICHAEL COSSEL
   died
Aug. 9, 1847
aged 72 yrs.
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THIS BURIAL
 LOCATED IN
  COSSEL CEMETERY
  MONUMENT MOVED
    MAY     1      1964