A book of Glasgow Cemetery inscriptions is now on file at the Winchester Public Library. It was prepared and donated by Hugh and Esther Dyer McHarry of Havana, who are descendents of Wilson Y. Coats, Louisa Jolly Coats and Polina Whitlock Dyer, who were interred at Glasgow in the 1800's. Mrs. McHarry was born in Merritt and is the daughter of Dr. Wilson K. Dyer who was born and raised in Winchester, and is the brother of Mrs. Cecil Carlton.

The book of over nine hundred inscriptions will be useful to those interested in local history and genealogy. The unpublished manuscript has been placed in the Illinois State Historical Library, and the Library of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Washington, D.C. It was also given to the Genealogical Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, where it will be put on microfiche and available to people of all faiths through a world-wide system of branch libraries operated by the Mormon Church.

There are a number of noteworthy inscriptions in the Glasgow Cemetery. James McEvers, who was born in Scotland and died at Glasgow in 1829, was a veteran of the American Revolution. Hardin W. Fowler was killed in France in World War I, and his fellow soldiers erected a flag pole and column in his honor, near the center of the cemetery. Conrod Dundel served in WW I balloon company. Many other markers cite military service in the Civil War, the 1889 Indian War, World War II, and the Viet Nam War.

Membership in the Grand Army of the Republic, the Masonic Order, the Modern Woodmen, the VFW, and other organizations is mentioned on many of the stones. Blanche Robertson's stone states that she was National Regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution, an organization with tens of thousands of members.

We sincerely thank Mr. and Mrs. McHarry for their dedication to perfecting and giving this reading, not only to our society, but to the other locations also. This is the only way that our future descendants will have a way of locating their ancestors and collateral relatives, due to the constant destruction of stones via weathering processes, vandalism, and careless use of modern equipment both in mowing the grass, and digging graves.

We truly wish that there were some dedicated persons who would do as good a job in reading the remaining stones in the Winchester Cemetery and presenting us with a copy. Our Society could benefit so many family historians who live away from here, if we only had this reading!

Our quarterly of September 1979 had a reading of the Glasgow cemetery which was donated to us by Mr. and Mrs. Chester Funk. In view of the fact that a few years has elapsed since then, and we have many new members who do not have access to the reading, we are herein publishing an index of the McHarry reading in this quarterly. Should anyone desire further information they can write to us for photocopies of pages desired. While we do not charge for these services, a donation is always very acceptable, and appreciated.