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This ground, though in use as a cemetery for thirty-six years, was most unfit for the purpose. The soil was wet, and to drain it was nearly an impossibility; yet several additions were made, two by A. J. Neff, who owned the lands adjoining, and one by Mr. Heaston himself.
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The first addition was 1511x2274 feet in size, and contained seventy-seven lots, and was recorded August 22, 1862. The second addition was made by A. J. Neff, on the south side, con. sisting of thirty-six lots, recorded July 19, 1867.
The third addition also was donated by A. J. Neff, on the north and east sides, containing 126 lots, and recorded August 14, 1876. But the citizens were unreconciled to the inconven- iences of the place, and, while on the one hand many took the bodies of their friends elsewhere for burial, on the other efforts were made to obtain a more suitable location.
In 1877, a petition signed by five-eighths of the tax-payers of the place was presented to the town authorities, praying prompt action by them upon the matter.
A committee of nine persons was appointed, three from each ward, to wit: First Ward, A. Stone, A. Teal, J. J. Cheney; Second Ward, J. M. Hodson, R. Bosworth, L. W. Study; Third Ward, T. W. Kizer, J. M. Carver, J. W. Diggs. This move- ment proved a failure, and the committee never reported Shortly afterward Gen. Asahel Stone purchased grounds of Chris- tian Heaston, south of town, comprising forty acres, at a cost of $4,000; had it surveyed and platted in a most curious and pictur- esque manner at a further outlay of $300; and, on the first day of March, 1880, he, in conjunction with his worthy wife, exe- ented a deed of the property, under the name of "Fountain Park Cemetery," to the town of Winchester, under a suitable Board of Control, and with regulations intended and adapted to secure neatness, taste, beauty, quiet, and every proper character- istic of a resting-place for the dead, naming also three persons as a Board of Control, viz., Asahel Stone, H. H. Neff' and T. W. Kizer.
The gift was thankfully accepted by the Trustees of the town, and, on the 3d day of July, 1880, the tract was dedicated as a burial ground in perpetuity, in the presence of a large and in- terested assembly.
Addressos were delivered by Rev. B. F. Foster, Rev. A. I. Luellan and Hon. T. M. Browne. The addresses were worthy of the occasion The one delivered by Gen. Browne especially was a gem of the rarest kind. Utterances found therein are worthy to be engraved in imperial marble, and set in memorial archways above the entrance to the consecrated ground in which repose the moldering bodies of our loved and lost.
"Is it true, as some would teach us, that we are all afloat on a trackless sea, with neither chart nor compass to direct nor to guide, at the mercy of the winds and the waves, simply drifting, drifting aimlessly and hopelessly until some fierce storm wreck our vessel and the shattered bark go down beneath the fathom- less waters without the hope of resurrection? True, indeed,
' None, none return from those quiet shores, Who cross with the boatman cold and pale; We hear the dip of the golden oars, And catch the gleam of the snowy sail;
and then the voyager passes out of sight; but, because we see no returning sail shall we believe that it has gone down in endless night? May we not still have faith that it has anchored at the other shore? * * * That spirit is immortal has been the al- most unchallenged conviction of the master minds of all agos, and the bed rock of every system of religion. * * * The profoundest depths of our being respond to this faith in an end- less life. * * * Let us abide therein until the end. * It will cheer us in life and be our solace in the hour of death. It will give our lives at all times and in every struggle a heavenward side.
"I am now done. It seemel to me fit that in thie solemn presence and upon this sacred occasion, I should speak a word for that faith that lightens the very darkness of the tomb. Let the stones that may be erected in these sacred precincts be not monnments of pride nor ambition, nor wealth nor even of sor- row, but rather let thom be memorials of a people's faith in an overruling God, and of an endless life beyond the gravo."
Thus far, Gen. Browne. His whole address is even more sentimental, devotional and profoundly religious than those of the clerical gentlemen who spoke from the same platform on that interesting occasion.
Many lots have already been purchased, some burials have been made. a few removals from the former burial-ground have been effected, and more are in contemplation The gift of the generous donors is duly appreciated by a grateful community, and future years and ages will preserve and revero their memory. It may be not amiss to remark that the whole amount of funds to be received from the sale of lots, etc., above the expense of attendance is to be applied to improving and beautifying the hallowed spot, that the ideal of the generous donors may be com- pletely realized, and that the sacred inclosure may come to be, as swiftly pass the rolling years, still more and more worthy the cultured and refined sentiment of an intelligent, sympathetic, Christian people.
FOUNTAIN PARK CEMETERY, WINCHESTER, SECTION 29, TOWN 20, RANGE 14.
Ezra Stone, born May 11, 1791, and died August 23, 1848, 57 years; removed from old cemetery.
Rebecca, wife of William Badgley, died February 2, 1859. 86 years; removed from old cemetery.
Eliza Kizer, died March 6, 1867, 67 years; removed from old cemetery.
Margery, wife of Elias Kizer, died October 30, 1869, 70 years; removed from old cemetery.
Joseph A. Badgley, died July 14, 1868, 68 years; removed from old cemetery.
Elijah Stevens, died October 15, 1869, 62 years; removed from old cemetery.
Abigail, wife of Joseph A. Badgley, died January 27, 1881, 82 years.
John Jenkinson, removed from old cemetery.
Mrs. Jenkinson, wife of above, removed from old cemetery.
Moorman Way, died August 17, 1881, 73 years.
Mrs. Way, wife of above, removed from old cemetery.
Mrs. Goodrich, long time widow of Hon. E. B. Goodrich, died in September, 1881, about 80 years.
GILEAD CEMETERY, GREENSFORK, SECTION 21, TOWN 16, RANGE 1.
Joseph Shaw, May 6, 1857, 64 years.
Sarah Shaw, March 10, 1860, 62 years.
Joseph Smith, October 5, 1857, 77 years.
Rebecca Smith, September 14, 1869, 83 years.
Susannah, wife of Uriah Ball, September 4, 1864, 59 years. David Kinsey, October 17, 1865, 85 years.
Fannie Elliot, July 25, 1867, 63 years.
Miles Elliot, April 6, 1880, 84 years.
Hannah, wife of Peter Deverage, July 20, 1868, 67 years.
Samuel Armstrong, August 31, 1869, 72 years.
Rebecca Horner. April 20, 1873, 82 years.
Miriam Clark, August 2, 1875, 66 years.
Pharaoh Clark, February 21, 1877, 73 years.
Elizabeth Gray, February 22, 1878, 73 years.
GRIFFIS CEMETERY, WAYNE, SECTION 25, TOWN 17, RANGE 1.
James Griffis, October 1, 1859, 6] years.
Margaret Griffis, February 2, 1869, 54 years. George Elston, January 8, 1872, 59 years
Elizabeth Elston, February 6, 1872, 53 years.
George McClure, about 1870, 65 years. Mrs. McClure, about 1875, 70 years.
The above is only a private burying ground, on a beautiful knoll, in the middle of the "Old Griffis Farm," and but few porsons have been buried there.
HOOVER CEMETERY, TWO AND ONE-HALF MILES SOUTH OF UNION CITY, SECTION 12, TOWN 17, RANGE 1.
Sarah wife of John Dixon, March 31, 1842, 51 years. John Dixon, March 12, 1865, 75 years. John Anderson, March 4, 1850, 65 years.
David Wasson, December 9, 1850, 75 years.
Barbara Hoover, wife of Peter Hoover, April 3, 1852, 76 years.
Peter Hoover, November 16, 1858, 82 years.
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HISTORY OF RANDOLPH COUNTY.
Catharine Law, December 7, 1852, 82 years. Lewis Blackman, February 18, 1856, 62 years.
David Williamson, May 5, 1857, 76 years.
George Woodbury, Company H; Eighty-fourth Indiana, died at Franklin, Tenn., April 18,1863, 32 years.
Priscilla, wife of John Anderson, January 17, 1863, 77 years. Flora, wife of David Wasson, December 21, 1865, 84 years. Nancy, wife of Benjamin Dixon, December 18, 1868, 67 years.
Ann, wife of Ezekiel Pritchard, March 18, 1870, 62 years. Samuel Downing, M. D., July 7, 1871, 66 years.
Hannah, wife of Abraham Teeter, December 17, 1872, 90 years.
John M. Williamson, May 26, 1874, 62 years.
John Louder, August 25, 1875, 70 years.
Sarah Louder, March 3, 1874, 66 years.
Abner Anderson, December 8, 1877, 67 years.
HOPEWELL CEMETERY, GREEN, SECTION 31, TOWN 21, RANGE 13. Ebenezer Walker, May 24, 1852, 77 years.
Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Fansher, August 17, 1853, 65 years.
Daniel Culver, Sr., April 16, 1854, 82 years.
Samuel French, July 15, 1857, 67 years.
Esther, wife of Samuel French, April 29, 1858, 67 years.
Jacob Tramar, August 15, 1867, 63 years.
Rev. Jonathan Flood, October 22. 1867, 86 years.
Joseph Gantz, May 18, 1870, 59 years.
Jesse Harrison September 20, 1870, 62 years.
Elizabeth, wife of J. H. Smithson, February 10, 1872, 63 years.
Robert McCracken, June 14, 1872, 61 years.
Sarah, wife of above, December 9, 1874, 62 years.
John S. Bunsold, June 10, 1873, 63 years.
Edith, wife of T. M. Silvers, August 13, 1873, 66 years.
Malinda Green, November 11, 1874, 65 years.
Julien Green, December 29, 1874, 72 years.
Peter M. Silvers, December 17, 1875, 67 years. Jacob Bales, May 3, 1875, 70 years.
Rachel R., wife of above, July 28, 1875, 62 years.
Mary, wife of Philip Wetzel, March 12, 1876, 60 years. Isaac Holloway, February 23, 1877, 86 years.
William Cortner, February 24, 1879, 89 years.
Catharine, wife of David A. Green, September 3, 1879, 51 years.
HUNTSVILLE CEMETERY, SECTION 28, TOWN 19, RANGE 13.
Mary, wife of Col. John Hunt, Fleming County, Ky., April 24, 1843, 74 years.
Hugh Botkin, February 27, 1851, 60 years.
Catharine Jones, March 4, 1851, 86 years.
Sarah, wife of William B. Hunt, October 16, 1855, 85 years. Nancy Lamb, July 29, 1856, 87 years.
John Lynch, March 31, 1857, 62 years.
Jesse Gaines, November 11, 1859, 80 years.
Lucy, wife of above, September 30, 1863, 81 years.
Elizabeth Jones, July 11, 1859, 63 years.
James F. Jones, husband of the above, Campbell County, Va., July 17, 1868, 81 years. Benjamin Harris, June 12, 1863, 75 years.
John Harris, November 26, 1863, 73 years.
Celia B., wife of above, August 18, 1878, 74 years.
William Z. Pascall, Company C, Ninth Indiana Cavalry, died at the hospital, Indianapolis, May 2, 1864,919 years. Elizabeth, wife of Jonathan Butler, July 26, 1864, 81 years. Jonathan Butler, January 18, 1868, 92 years.
Benjamin Edwards, July 30, 1865, 67 years.
Jesse Z. Paschall, January 11, 1865, 70 years.
William A. Lamb, April 8, 1868, 65 years.
Rev. Bazil Hunt, Fleming County, Ky., October 30, 1869, 80 years.
William Miller, born in Donegal County, Ireland, in 1804, and came to America in 1844; died March 2, 1869, 65 years.
Mary, wife of William Caberson, July 27, 1870, 67 years. Nathan Garrett, October 7, 1871, 65 years.
Benjamin G. Lamb, volunteered July 26, 1862, in Com- pany D, Sixty-ninth Indiana Regiment; discharged June 3, 1865, and died August 29, 1872, 33 years.
William Harris, Campbell County, Va., March 8, 1873, 70 years.
Jacob Ross, June 30, 1873, 81 years.
Isaac Mann, August 3, 1874, 79 years.
Elizabeth, wife of Bela W. Cropper, October 30, 1875, 81 years. Bela W. Cropper, died in 1874, Baptist preacher, 83 years. Rev. William Hunt, 1877, 80 years.
Laura, wife of Stephen Haines, March 26, 1878, 73 years. James Vanlandigham, March 9, 1880, 69 years.
Jericho (Wayne Township, Section 30, Town 20, Range 15). Rachel Buckingham, September 7, 1844, 70 years.
Joshua Buckingham, October 15, 1854, 85 years.
Mary, wife of Benoni Hill, May 12, 1856, 67 years.
Benoni Hill, August 20, 1870, 82 years.
Hannah, wife of Thomas Wells, September 18, 1862, 64 years. William Nixon, November 13, 1865, 84 years.
Hannah, wife of Simon Cox, October 11, 1865, 54 years.
Amos Peacock, July 24, 1850, 63 years.
Hannah, wife of Amos Peacock, September 8, 1867, 74 years. Benjamin Schooley, May 24, 1867, 78 years.
Aaron K. Schooley, November 12, 1868' 77 years.
John J. Peacock, June 22, 1868, 58 years.
John Price, January 9, 1869, 65 years.
Mariam Cox, wife of Joshua Cox, December 24, 1872, 74 years.
Solomon Hinshaw, February 2, 1872, 55 years.
William B. Cox, April 13. 1873, 72 years.
Henry Hill, May 2, 1874, 83 years.
Avis (Woodard) Hill, August 15, 1875, 79 years.
Amy, wife of Thomas North, April 22, 1875, 76 years.
Thomas North, June 8, 1878, 77 years.
Margaret, wife of William B. Cox, July 20, 1876, 75 years. Hannah, wife of James Smith, December 1, 1877, 75 years. Jericho ie an old burial-ground. Very many graves have only rougb, unmarked stones. Some have initials, with neither name, age nor date. Is it too late, even yet, to supply the lack and to betoken the resting-places of the dead, sacred to affection ? It is surely something remarkable that a people like the Friends, so kind, so loving, so affectionate, so full of veneration for the departed dear ones, so penetrated with sympathy for the afflicted, should have, in ages past, felt it incumbent upon them to deny to their worthy and lamented dead a fitting public memorial at the spot of their burial, that the visitors to the sacred inclosure, through generations long to come, may feel their hearts bound as by a solemn and indissoluble tie to the souls of all the noble and worthy dead that have fallen asleep in Jesus since first the forest wilderness began to become the peaceful abode of civilized Christian men and women. And will they not be convinced at length that the gentle and tender spirit of Christian love by no means forbids, but on the other hand, requires and commands that the memory of the lamented and beloved dead shall be kept perpetually alive, not merely in the secret heart of the mourn- ing soul and bereaved comrades left behind, but also by suita- ble tokens, not costly and for vain show and display, but modest and appropriate, that future times may learn where lie the mortal remains of those who were, during their lives, honored and beloved.
Johnson's Burying-Ground (Jackson Township, northeast quarter of Section 33, Town 18, Range 1) .- Elizabeth (Simmons) Noffsinger, wife of John Noffsinger, born April 11, 1878; died February 3, 1867, 79 years. Her sons were Eli John, Jacob, Absalom, James, Samuel; her daughters were Catharine, Susan, Elizabeth, Lydia.
Mary Cromas, wife of Abraham Cromas, October 31, 1849, 59 years.
Abraham Cromas, March 3, 1853, 62 years.
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William Goodman, 1879, 84 years.
Mrs. Jacob Johnson died in the winter of 1880-81, very old. Jacob Johnson. August, 1881, 87 years.
Jobn Johnson, about 1878, 88 years; probably buried here; no tombstone, however, has been erected.
Liberty (two and one-half miles north of Bloomingsport, Sec- tion 32, Town 19, Range 14) .- William Rockhill, February 27, 1852, 60 years.
Jesse Brumfield, August 11, 1855, 57 years.
Jacob B. Mills, born July 27, 1798, and died May 14, 1858, 60 years.
Ezra Vandegriff, March 15, 1860, 64 years.
Daniel B. Johnson, November 3, 1861, Company C, Nine- teenth Indiana, 20 years.
Henry Bramley, November 14, 1862, 60 years.
Letitia, wife of John Wood, November 8, 1863, 62 years.
Jane, wife of J. B. Mills, horn February 22, 1789, and died September 1, 1864, 76 years.
Mary, wife of Pleasant Bales, December 31, 1864, 55 years.
Pleasant Bales, February 8, 1865, 54 years. George W. Daly, February 17, 1868, 75 years. Christian Rush, April 1, 1868, 65 years.
James Abshire, born August 1, 1777, and died July 18, 1868, 91 years.
Thomas Gordon, October 3, 1868, 62.years.
John Johnson, February 11. 1871, 58 years.
John N. Smith, September 11, 1873, 70 years.
Elizabeth, wife of Aaron Ballard, February 2, 1874, 70 years. Little Creek (Maulsby's, Nettle Creek Township, Section 13, Town 18, Range 12) .- Rachel Street, November 1, 1864, 69 years. Mary, wife of Thomas Maulsby, December 9, 1870, 62 years. Sarah, wife of Hicks K. Wright, August 5, 1874, 63 years. Hicks K. Wright, April 16, 1875, 63 years.
Thomas Maulsby, January 19, 1878, 73 years.
Cemetery South of Losantrille (Section 16, Town 18, Range 12) .- Charles Johnson, October 22, 1832 (earliest date), 13 years. Joseph Burroughs, September 13, 1837; not given.
William Crouse, November 30. 1838. 75 years.
Robert Lumpkin, November 12, 1842, 86 years. Jesse Sisk, April 16. 1845, 68 years.
Catharine, wife of William Crouse, March 15, 1846, 75 years. Pheriba, wife of Nathan Sisk, August, 1847, 73 years. Joseph Johnson, March 26, 1848, 62 years.
Elizabeth, wife of Robert Lumpkin, August 3, 1848, 82 years. Joseph Bookout, August 13, 1855, 69 years.
Paulin Seagrave, May 7, 1857, 62 years.
Reuben Johnson, December 18, 1858, 68 years. Jolin Burroughs, September 6, 1862, 70 years. Mary, wife of Hosea Sisk, June 6, 1863, 60 years.
Mary, wife of Reuben Johnson. August 11, 1863, 69 years. Mary, wife of Jesse Oxley, July 22. 1864, 68 years. Sarah, wife of Joseph Bookout, March 26, 1872, 76 years. Richard Vanlandigham, May 20, 1872, 72 years. Damaris, wife of Jesse Chambers, January 3, 1876, 65 years. Charles Burroughs, March 10, 1876. 82 years.
Lynn-Friends ( Washington Township, Section 11, Town 18, Range 14). -- Samuel Peirson, March 14, 1837, 79 years. David Kenworthy, May 22, 1843, 72 years.
Elizabeth Benson, January 31, 1844, 77 years.
Phebe, wife of Samuel Peirson, January 3, 1848, 80 years. Moses Farmer, January 23, 1849, 83 years. Hannah Beard, June 2, 1851, 72 years. Sarah Farmer, September 16, 1853, 83 years. Paul Beard, Sr., March 14, 1857, 77 years. Obadiah Harris, Jr., March 5, 1858, 84 years. Leroy Davis, October 15, 1859, 61 years. John Moody, October 20, 1860, 72 years. Mary Moody, September 7, 1862. 66 years. Thomas Clevinger, November 26, 1866, 68 years. Isaac Moody, August 3. 1869, 73 years. Jennetta, wite of Leroy Davis, January 28, 1871. 80 years. Permelia, wife of M. B. Cuiphur, March 24, 1872, 73 years.
Elizabeth H. Platt, November 11, 1874, 64 years.
Reuben Farmer, February 25, 1874, 69 years.
Mary, wife of Thomas Clevinger, June 3, 1875, 75 years.
Agatha, wife of John B. Picket, July 29, 1875, 62 years. Millicent Moody, December 8, 1876, 60 years. Aaron Rich, July 4, 1877, 71 years.
NOTE -- Lynn Graveyard is an ancient burial-place, and con- tains the dust of many of the pioneers of Randolph; but rough stones, or none at all, show where some of these aged fathers and mothers lie.
Woodlawn (new, Maxville Township, Green W. Williams, pro- prietor; 258 lots. Location, north side of the pike, opposite the old Maxville Cemetery, east of Maxville; recorded January 15, 1875.
Maxville (old and new, east half of Section 20, Town 20, Range 13, White River Township) .- Jesse Pursley, December 4, 1862, 87 years.
Robison McIntyre, September 15, 1871, 85 years.
Mary McIntyre, October, 1854, 73 years.
Rebecca Mills, October 11, 1872, 78 years.
Morgan Mills, April 30, 1878, 84 years.
Armsbee Diggs, March 9, 1872, 72 years.
Mary Diggs, November 14, 1872, 72 years.
Tarlton Moorman, December 30, 1875, 93 years.
Peter S. Miller, January 5, 1876, 67 years.
John Sumwalt, October 10, 1876, 90 years.
Mary, wife of Solomon Mason, 1878, 71 years.
Maxville Cemetery would seem to be an ancient burial- ground, though, for some reason, but few old persons have tomb- stones therein. One would suppose that many more have been deposited beneath this hallowed ground, but the earth gives no sign.
Cemetery West of Marville (near the toll-gate, Section 26, Town 20, Range 12) .-- Margaret, wife of Thomas Watson, March 18, 1853, 88 years.
Elizabeth Swain, December 30. 1859, 64 years.
Miller's Burying-Ground (Schoolhouse No. 6, Ward Town- ship, northeast quarter of Section 23, Town 21, Range 14) .- Lney Ann Poorman, wife of John Poorman, September 2, 1875, 57 years.
Joseph Lollar, December 15, 1869, 69 years.
Kindred Smiley, bnried at No. 6, Schoolhouse; no tomb- stone.
John Branneman, buried in the summer of 1880, 82 years; no tombstone.
Mt. Zion (White River Township, Section 2, Town 19, Range 14) .- Thomas Butts, August 8, 1848. 70 years.
W. E. Fitzgerald, February 15, 1851, 105 years, Revolu- tionary soldier.
Sarah Fitzgerald, September 7, 1851, 92 years.
Josiah Pennington, January 5. 1852, 79 years.
Alley Pennington, November 2, 1855, 76 years.
Rachel Shockney, September 8, 1855, 67 years.
Susannah, wife of Jolin Haas, August, 1857, 60 years.
Sarah Shockney, October 17, 1862, 59 years.
Charles Shockney, April 7, 1863, 65 years.
James H. Surface, Angust 1, 1863, 20 years, Company C. Sixty-ninth Indiana Regiment.
Jacob L. Fudge, September 8, 1867, 63 years. V
Elizabeth, wife of John Ousler, July 7, 1856, 68 years. 1 John Ousler, May 17, 1852, 74 years.
Samuel Shockney, September 23, 1859, 66 years. Catharine, wife of Valentine Oyler, July 17, 1873, 79 years. Valentine Oyler, March 19, 1852, 69 years.
John M. Lucas, August 22, 1869, 60 years.
William Kennedy, December 21, 1876, 77 years.
William Shockney, July 3, 1875; 75 years.
John M. Bishop, January 2, 1874, 81 years.
NOTE-W. E. Fitzgerald, 105 years old, was killed by falling from a load of oats that he had loaded himself. He was strong and sprightly, though so old, and, except for this accident, might have survived for years. Mrs. William Kennedy died in the spring of 1881, 84 years.
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HISTORY OF RANDOLPH COUNTY.
Sarah, wife of John M. Bishop, November 1,1880, 62 years. Hannah Ireland, February 3, 1864, 63 years.
Elam Ireland, October 31, 1875, 80 years. William Robison, August 29, 1874, 72 years. Catharine, wife of Peter Forbes, July 12, 1870, 85 years. Abel Hinshaw, June 11, 1876, 77 years. Daniel Moore, August 30, 1876, 63 years. Susan C. Neil, September 28, 1876, 79 years. Jerusha Stine, October 3, 1876, 66 years.
James W. Stine, October 16, 1876, 64 years.
Neff (near poor-house, Section 33, Town 20, Range 14). -- Susannah, wife of Charles Summers, September 15, 1847, 85 years.
Dennis Kelly, March 29, 1849, 64 years.
Susannah, wife of John Neff, October 5, 1854, 80 years. John Neff, September 25, 1856, 85 years.
Mary, wife of Dennis Kelly, September 15, 1866, 77 years. Polly, wife of Jacob A. White, January 7, 1878, 75 years. Mrs. Thomas Johnson (sister of Col. H. H. Neff), August, 1881, old. The above would seem to be rather a private family ground, belonging to the Neffs and their friends, though some of that name are buried elsewhere.
New Dayton (Bear Creek Graveyard) White River Township, Section 35, Town 21, Range 13; size, 122 square rods; John Ray, proprietor; number of lots, thirty-five; recorded September 25, 1872. Bear Creek Graveyard, second addition, John Ray, pro- prietor; number of lots, 110; Section 35, Town 21, Range 13; recorded August 11, 1877 .- Maj. Brown, April 7, 1855, 63 years.
Catharine, wife of Maj. Brown, April 15, 1855, 71 years. William Platt, August 28, 1861, 75 years.
John N. Gettle, Sr., March 29, 1862, 77 years.
Esther, wife of James Stanley, November 22, 1862, 67 years. John Addington, Company A, Eighty-fourth Indiana, Septem- ber 12, 1864, 23 years.
Dorcas, wife of W. R. Addington, September 6, 1869, 60 years. William R. Addington, October 5, 1875, 73 years.
Francis Bergwitz, August 16, 1872, 80 years.
David Booher, March 16, 1874, 76 years.
Elizabeth, wife of Walter Ruble, November 11, 1874, 68 years. Jane, wife of Salathiel Dodd, February 25, 1875, 76 years. Robert Stephen, December 29, 1875, 61 years.
Joshua Mattbie, September 25, 1875, 62 years. John K. Puckett, March 7, 1876. 73 years. Elizabeth, wife of George W. Smithson, April 4, 1876, 80 years. John Winship, September 7, 1876, 82 years.
-Elizabeth, wife of Luke Hollowell, October 8, 1877, 62 years. Margaret Manser, December 5, 1877, 77 years. Walter Ruble, December 8, 1878, 89 years.
Elizabeth, wife of Joshua Maltbie, June 29, 1879, 55 years. New Lisbon (new, Charles Trine, President Lisbon Cemetery Company; 601 lots; Section 11, Town 18, Range 1, across the pike from the Lisbon Church, in Jackson Township; recorded October 5, 1875.
NOTE-The old cemetery is a short distance south of the new one, and on the other (the east) side of the highway.
New Lisbon (Disciples,' Jackson Township, Sections 11 and
12, Town 18, Range 1) .- Julia Sutton, October 1, 1849, 55 years. Cornelius Sutton, born June 20, 1780, and died August 30, 1859, 79 years.
Mary Boles, November 26, 1850, 76 years.
George Debolt, June 20, 1853, 60 years.
RachelDebolt, December 30, 1861, 65 years.
James Ferrill, October 3, 1854, 72 years. Elizabeth Ferrill, March 26, 1857, 73 years. Samuel W. Hughes, January 5, 1856, 72 years. Rachel Wickersham, September 15, 1855, 70 years. James Wickersham, October 7, 1873, 93 years. Rev. Thomas Wiley, September 23, 1862, 52 years. Rachael Banta, February 6, 1863, 59 years.
5 David Banta, October 6, 1867, 71 years. Betsey Lambert, January 26, 1865, 74 years.
Jonathan Lambert, born January 15, 1819, and died Sep- tember 24, 1869, 71 years.
Andrew Stone, February 2, 1866, 81 years.
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