Since the cemeteries were walked and photographed by volunteers for Pope county, many people have started posting their cemetery photos on Findagrave. While this is still a free website, it is now owned by Ancestry so it may not remain free. If you would like to see all the Pope County cemeteries on Findagrave, click here.

Old Zion and New Zion Cemeteries cemeteries are located approximately 7 miles northeast of Simpson, Illinois. They are on a gravel road known as the Trigg Tower Road. It is in T11S, R5E, Section 30. Across the road from the old cemetery is New Zion Methodist Church (est. 1854) and New Zion Cemetery.

These cemeteries are inventoried from east to west, north to south. It was very hard to line in rows and perhaps error were made in the way the graves are rowed. The markers were very hard to read and many are in bad shape. There are probably, at least, 100 graves with no markers.