2010 Prairie Folklore Theatre @ Springdale Cemetery.

Wm. Hawley Smith, author and a founder of the Peoria Players Theater & his wife Ellen Gulusha Smith, painter, writer and illustrator.

Albert "Bismark" Schlag, volunteer firefighter of German descent who died and whose tombstone is a replica fire hydrant topped with a fireman's hat.

Julietta Ohl, co-owner of Ohl's bakery.

Joseph Petarde, a stonecarver of Italian descent, sometimes referred to as"Peoria's forgotten sculptor."

Robert H. Avery, founder of Avery Tractor Company who survived incarceration at the Confederate prison of Andersonville where over a quarter of the population died from "starvation, malnutrition, diarrhea, and disease."

Colonel William Thrush, who was killed while leading a counterattack in the Civil War's Battle of Corinth.

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