In certificate number order & in loose chronological order. Note that, for whatever reason, seven corrected certificates with deaths from 1960-1980 are on film 2342582 (the only items on the film reel).

Abandoned cemetery; George W. Smith donated the land in 1864.

On the title page of the 1st vol. the name of the church reads: Zion Congregation of the Evangelical Association at Providence Ridge. Providence Ridge is not an incorporated town in today's Will County, but it was (may still be) in Jackson Township, Will County, Ill. A number of names appear to be used for the church in the 1st vol. Among them: (1) Manhattan Providence Ridge Church; (2) Zion Evangelical Church; (3) Providence Ridge Church of the Evangelical...

Includes much information about the deceased including the certificate number. Later in the registers, parents are included. The records are in certificate number order & loose chronological order.