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Written by DeadGirl
Sunday, 20 June 2004
June 17, 2004 By Susan DeMar Lafferty NEW LENOX Ã¢â‚¬â€ New Lenox Township trustees have officially recognized the historical importance of the nearly 200-year-old Marshall Cemetery along Regan Road. A township board resolution last week moved the cemetery closer to getting landmark status. The Will County Historic Preservation Commission is considering recommending the cemetery be designated a county landmark but has delayed action until the township board gave its approval. The township has owned the cemetery since 1981. The commission is expected to vote Aug. 4 on whether to recommend to the county board that the cemetery be declared a historical landmark. That recommendation first will go to the county board's land use committee before going to the full board, said Mark Batson, president of the New Lenox Area Historical Society, which suggested the landmark designation. Batson said the county board is more likely to approve landmark status if the owner agrees to it. Marshall Cemetery would become the 20th landmark in Will County and the third in New Lenox Township. The township is planning to double the size of the long-neglected cemetery and offer more grave sites. Only the older section would be included in the landmark designation. Township Supervisor Guy Sell said the township board decided to keep control of the cemetery rather than letting the historic preservation commission take it over. "We don't want to get permission if we want to do something out there," Sell said. "It will always be an historic site. We're not going to turn it into a condominium complex." The cemetery was part of a 1,000-acre farm that Chester Marshall bought in 1834. Many of his family members are buried in the cemetery, along with veterans from the War of 1812, the Spanish-American War and the Civil War. The earliest known burial was in 1814. http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/city/j17nlcem.htm

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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries