The Cemetery is one of the neatest kept graveyards in the County. The citizens of Kappa and vicinity feel a proper pride in the appearance of this "City of the Dead". The first person buried here was Mr. Wm. Jones, who died April 7, 1856. The second was Mrs. Ostler, who died April 13, 1856, and who was the only sister of Mr. William North. The ground occupied by the Cemetery was donated by Wm. North. About one hundred and fifty dollars were collected by subscriptions and the ground enclosed by a neat fence. Ten trustees have charge of the property. One of them is president, one, secretary, one, treasurer, and two are given direct charge of the grounds and without any salary. A sexton is employed to dig all graves, keep the grounds in order, etc. Burial lots of 7-1/2 by 6-1/2 are sold for Ten Dollars each to those who are able to pay. To those unable to pay, lots are donated by consent of the Board.
The village of Kappa was incorporated by Judge Walter Gibson on the 11th day of July 1884, with D. Amrine as President of the Board and Eugene Stone, Clerk. Incorporation has been a most wonderful success, and everyone is greatly pleased thereat. The opposition to village incorporation was insignificant and amounted to nothing in the face of the overwhelming majority for it. Hogs and saloons were immediately shut up by the board, sidewalks were built. Streets named and indicated, wise and conservative laws were passed, and the town at once assumed an air of thrift and prosperity hitherto unknown. At present, I. C. Stone is President of the Board; Dr. Mendenhall, Clerk; and George Stahl, J. B. Drake, John Porter, and Joseph Grant, comprise the Board of Trustees, with Eugene Stone, as Police Magistrate, and W. R. Redman, Constable.
A large Eating House was kept in the Illinois Central Depot in 1856 at which regular trains stopped for meals. This Eating House or Restaurant was kept by Horace
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