Dear Listies,
Per Wilkapedia:
Aurora is a city located in Kane, DuPage, Will and Kendall counties in Illinois. Huge area with numerous families of German descent.
Before European settlers arrived, there was a Native American village in what is today downtown Aurora, on the banks of the Fox River. In 1834, following the Black Hawk War, the McCarty brothers settled on both sides of the river, but subsequently sold their land on the west side to the Lake brothers, who opened a mill. The McCartys lived on and operated a mill on the east side. Aurora was established with the building of a post office in 1837.
Aurora began as two villages: East Aurora, incorpor...
Worth talking a look at:
http://www.auroracemeteries.com/
There are surnames indexed from obituaries published in an Aurora newspaper even those who are not buried in the Arurora area, as well as actual burial records for a couple of cemeteries.
Barbie-Lew