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Peter Yeiser, March 27, 1867, 65 years.
Mary Yeiser, January 29, 1871, 72 years.
Lucinda Thomson, wife of J. Thomson, October 24, 1876, 64 years.
James Reeves, 1874; old; ten children, six living.
Norwich (old Quaker, near C. Crist's, southeast of Spartans- burg, Section 15, Town 16, fange 1) .- This cemetery was estab- lished in 1825, and is still in use for purposes of burial. A large number have been interred here, but only a few old persons have tombstones, as follows:
Aaron Adams, 70 years.
Esther Miers, 1870, not given.
Samuel Ruby, not old.
James Moore, October, 1875, 99 years.
Hannah, wife of James Moore, April 20, 1869, 85 years.
John Randle (colored), September 27, 1881, 85 years. Windsor Wiggs, 1856, 63 years.
Sarah, wife of Windsor Wiggs, August 4, 1881, 84 years. Like some other cemeteries in this region, it lies in the midst of a farm, nearly half a mile from any public highway, and with no avenue of entrance.
Peacock Graveyard (one and a half miles northeast of Jericho Meeting-house, Section 30, Town 20, Range 15) .- Abram Pea- cock, 1833, over 70 years.
Aaron Hill, 1855, over 80 years.
Amy Cox, 1850, over 80 years.
David Lyle, 1850, over 60 years.
Mrs. Rhoads, 1850, very old.
Rebecca Manor, daughter of old Mrs. Rhoads, 1825; old.
NOTE-This yard has no tombstones, and George and Ase- nath Thomas gave me the above from memory, and the statements are only approximations, and possibly not very close ones at that. The burial-ground is private, and only a few have ever been deposited therein.
New Pittsburg (Jackson Township, Section 6, Town 21, Range 15) .- Archibald McFarland, June 10, 1850, 77 years.
Mary, wife of Archibald McFarland, May 10, 1857, 81 years.
William Simmons, March 24, 1849, 51 years.
Mary, wife of William Simmons, December 5, 1860, 53 years. Esther Marsh, wife of Jesse Marsh, December 10, 1856, 56 years.
Phebe, wife of Arthur Trew, December 12, 1857, 79 years. Nancy Fields, wife of Lanceford Fields, February 22, 1861, 52 years.
Lansford Fields, May 11, 1866, 66 years.
John Stick, October 27, 1867, 79 years.
Elizabeth, wife of John Albright, February 6, 1871, 61 years. Susannah McFarland, wife of Joseph McFarland, April 26, 1872, 58 years.
Joseph McFarland, November 6, 1879, 62 years.
Julian Stick, wife of Casper Stick, May 1, 1876, 66 years. Silas Richards, July 7, 1878, 58 years.
Thomas Croyle, early settler, buried in the old cemetery; re- interred in the new; no stone; very old.
Nunnamaker, soldier in the war of 1812; drew pension; died in the summer of 1880, 84 years. There is an old cemetery near Pittsburg, but it is out of repair and not in use, and we do not know whether any tombstones are there or not, since, in fact, we did not discover its precise location.
Pleasant Hill (east of Salem, Jackson Township, Section 3, Town 21, Range 15). - William Cline, August 23, 1853, 107 years. Bell Woten, May 17, 1856, 91 years.
Demas Lindley, November 29, 1857, 73 years.
Jane, wife of William Cline, January 27, 1862, 61 years. Henry Delmy, August 26, 1863, 83 years.
Thomas P. Smith, December 30, 1863, 73 years.
Mary, wife of Thomas Peden, October 14, 1866, 56 years. Thomas Peden, April 12, 1868, 76 years.
Susanna, wife of Demas Lindley, July 2, 1869, 72 years. Mary, wife of Henry Denney, April 30, 1870, 63 years.
Rev. Tyler Weld, July 6, 1870, 61 years.
Stephen Marine, June 14, 1870, 67 years.
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Barbara, wife of J. Zeiler, April 3, 1871, 65 years.
James Latubert, October 16, 1871, 63 years.
John Moore, January 15, 1872, 63 years.
Charles Simmons, born March 26, 1799, and died March 16, 1872, 73 years.
Catharine, wifo of Abraham Walters, May 19, 1875, 88 years. John Lindley, September 5, 1875, 60 years.
John Zeiler, October 3, 1877, 74 years.
James G. Constable, March 8, 1878, 68 years.
Nancy, wife of James G. Constable, December 28, 1879, 66 years.
Nancy, wife of Thomas Devor, February 6, 1880, 68 years.
Cemetery one and a half miles north of Farmland, Section 1, Town 20, Range 12 .-- John Cox, August 13, 1866, 90 years. Leven Cox, August 17, 1876, 78 years.
Peter Hester, very old; no stone.
Pleasant Ridge (West River Township, Section 15, Town 19, Range 15, was laid out about 1842, by John Jenkins. The first burial was a child of John and Frances Jenkins October 30, 1842, child 4 years. The interments in these grounds have been few). - Frances C. S. Jenkins, wife of John Jenkins, Jannary 3, 1877, 66 years.
John Kepler, January 24, 1848, 85 years.
Isabelle Shearer, February 16, 1853, 70 years.
Mrs. Kepler, very old. This cemetery is connected with a Pres- byterian Church, established some thirty-five or forty years ago. The edifice is still standing in the graveyard, but no worship has been held therein for many, many years.
Poplar Run-Friends (Stony Creek Township, northwest anarter of Section 12, Town 19, Range 12). -- John Diggs, Jan- uary 22, 1863, 60 years.
Catharine Diggs, October 29, 1867, 64 years.
Frederic A. Pettibone, February 2, 1874, 73 years.
Mark Diggs, June 14, 1878, 79 years.
Henry W. Moore, May 0, 1879, 75 years; no stono.
Solomon Hanscom, 60 years.
Margaret Hanscom, 60 years.
Restore Lamb, age not given.
Prospect (Ward Township, Section 24, Town 21, Range 14, east of Deerfield). - Mary Cooper, wife of Ezekiel Cooper, Janu- ary 20, 1846, 81 years.
John Witt, September 28, 1847, 67 years.
Mary Pogue, wife of William Pogue, December 30, 1854, 73 years.
William Pogue, March 12, 1856, 76 years.
Mary, wife of E. Bragg, November 3, 1857, 53 years.
Mary, wife of W. Bragg, July 16, 1858, 74 years.
Nancy, wife of Michael Bannon, February 12, 1863, 69 years. Michael Bannon, February 3, 1870, 82 years.
Ahaz Cartwright, August 20, 1863. 77 years.
Susan, wife of Walter Smiley, September 11, 1865, 64 years.' Salome, wife of John Sarff, September 13, 1869, 69 years. Abraham Harshman, September 15, 1868, 68 years.
Susan, wife of Robert Pogue, March 10, 1871, 65 years.
Nancy Ann, wife of Daniel B. Miller, December 18, 1872, 67 years.
James Warren, June 27, 1876, 92 years.
Judge Daniel B. Miller, spring of 1881, 83 years.
Milly, wife of Perry Fields, February, 1881, age not given. Reuben Harshman, spring of 1881, age not given.
William Sizemore, 1877, 96 years.
Esther Sizemore, 1850, 66 years.
Jediah Sizemore, 65 to 70 years.
It is rather remarkable that in a cemetery so old and so cel- ebrated as Prospect, no more monuments of elderly persons are found. Whether it is because few are buried there, or because the placing of memorial stones has beon neglected, we cannot tell.
An old Cemetery; many graves; few tombstones; many old settlers doubtless lie sleeping beneath the grassy sod, but no human eye can designate the spots where they respectively wait the last great day.
Rehoboth (four miles northwest of Farmland, Section 2,
Town 20, Range 12) .- Minors L. Fowler, March 9, 1863, Com- pany C, Nineteenth Indiana, age not given.
George Cowgill, June 15, 1865, 72 years.
Rhoda, wife of Philip Lykens, April 27, 1866, 71 years.
Celia, wife of George Cowgill, July 2, 1867, 82 years.
Margaret Brinkley, September 13, 1871, 58 years.
Abram Grove, September 29, 1876, 72 years.
Jacob Windermaker, no stone, died perhaps in 1865, 75 years. Mr. Chessman, no stone, died perhaps in 1866, 75 or 80 years. Ridgeville (east of town, new, Franklin Township, Section 12, Town 21, Range 13) .-- Peter Dailey, January 10, 1879, 71 years.
Pennell Mendenhall, April 16, 1871, age not given.
Hugh Williamson, October 26,1873, 73 years.
Mary Anna Williamson, May 2, 1878, 73 years.
Nancy, wife of Peter Dailey, August 21, 1877, 81 years.
The old Ridgeville Graveyard is in disuse and neglected. Most of the interments in the region are made in Ritenour's Cemetery, as the oldest and most carefully kept burial-ground in the region. One would have supposed that a place settled as long as the vicinity of Ridgeville has been, would have had a carefully preserved cemetery, dating back from the olden time. Such seems, however, to be not the fact. Indeed, the extensive settlement of the neighborhood was accomplished only much later than the original entry into that wilderness by the Lewallyns, the Kizers and the Wards. The old graveyard at Ridgeville ap- pears to have been uusuitable, and, therefore, little used, and the new one has been opened for interments only for a short time.
Ritenour's (west of Deerfield, Section 18, Town 21, Range 14. Addition to the old one, size, 90x120 feet; number of lots, forty-four; location, between Deerfield and Ridgeville, south side of Mississinewa River, by the old chapel; recorded October 13, 1865. Ritenour's Addition, seventy-two lots; size, 80x242 foet; recorded October 23, 1866) .-- Edward MeKew, June 29, 1850, 88 years.
Aquila Loveall, 1851, 67 years.
John Way, March 10, 1851, 90 years.
Charles Sumption, February 10, 1852, 61 years.
Susanna, wifo of Philip Rarick, Sr., January 30, 1853, 71 years.
Catharine, wife of Edward MeKew, December 16, 1858, 63 years.
Patience, wife of Jacob Clark, February 12, 1859, 66 years. Elizabeth, wife of Burkett Pierce, February 17, 1859, 62 years.
Elizabeth, wife of George Ritenour, December 4, 1850, 69 years.
Ezekiel Roe, June 20, 1860. 73 years.
John Woodbury, May 10, 1860, 71 years.
Joseph Borry, September 3, 1862, 89 years.
James Q. Odlo, Company C, Thirty-ninth Indiana Regiment, wounded at Shiloh, Tenn., and died June 18, 1862, 22 years.
Elizabeth, wife of Ezekiel Roe, October 9, 1862, 67 years.
Barbara, wife of Joseph Berry, September 9, 1863, 83 years.
Eve, wife of Robert Parsons, September 16, 1863, 78 years. Robert Parsons, October 18, 1863, 89 years.
Elizabeth, wife of George Ritenour, August 27, 1864, 69 years. Granberry B. Nickey, Seventh Indiana Cavalry, died at Mem- phis April 7, 1864, 28 years.
John Willy, March 12, 1864, 71 years.
George Meek, June 17, 1864, 78 years. Mary, wife of Joseph S. Baker, November 27, 1865, 63 years. Mildred, wife of George Ritenour, August 29, 1865, 71 years. Sarah, wife of John Kinnear, March 12, 1867, 75 years.
Margaret, wife of Josiah St. John, October 28. 1868, 76 years. Hannah, wife of Robert Starbuck, April 8, 1869.
Catharine, wife of Michael Wimar, December 28, 1866, 67 years.
Michel, wife of Adam Hollowell, April 10, 1870, 88 years.
Sarah, wife of William Shoemaker, Sr., August 12, 1871, 75 years.
Eve, wife of J. P. Ulrich, born in Baden Everstadt, Europe, in 1807, and died December 16, 1871, 65 years.
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Joseph Lewis, February 14, 1872, 65 years. John P. Champe, August 14, 1872, 65 years. Samuel E. Turner, October 2, 1870, 71 years. Christena, wife of James Hester, January 9, 1873, 72 years Catharine Clapp, December 19, 1873, 63 years. Samuel Sipe, January 18, 1874, 75 years.
Abigail, wife of A. Collins, March 17, 1874, 71 years. Mercy, wife of Joseph Lewis, April 13, 1874, 68 years. Christian Heaston, April 18, 1874, 67 years.
Isabella, wife of Christian Nickey, December 30, 1874, 70
years.
Elizabeth, wife of George E. Thompson, December 20, 1876, 70 years.
David Riddlesbarger, January 29, 1876, 81 years. Sarah, wife of Joseph Elliot, May 24, 1876, 62 years. John Fetters, May 13, 1876, 67 years.
William Dail, June 6, 1876, 63 years.
Daniel Mull, September 22, 1877, 60 years.
Christopher T. Henieser, September 13, 1876, 67 years. James Hall, April 5, 1880, 81 years.
George Ritenour, no stone, very old.
Andrew Ritenour, no stone, very old.
Mrs. Andrew Ritenour, 1879, no stone, very old.
Isabella, wife of Ephraim Jellison, October 2, 1841, 63 years. Ephraim Jellison, May 8, 1846, 73 years.
John Vaughn, September 31, 1864, 69 years.
Thomas Jellison, September 20, 1864, 66 years.
Rebecca Jellison, wife of Thomas Jellison, March 28, 1864, 66 years.
Frederica, wife of Martin Heniser, February 12, 1877, 70 years.
Sarah, wife of Christian Heaston, April 18, 1874, 67 years.
A Mr. Clawson is thought to have been the first burial in Rite- nour's cemetery, date not known. In 1836, it had come to be extensively used. Perhaps 200 persons had by that time been laid to rest there, from the whole region for eight or ten miles around, and, perhaps, farther even than that.
Salem (on boundary near Swain's Hill, Section 32, Town 19, Range 13) .-- Catharine, wife of Frederick Zimmerman, March 7, 1856, 80 years.
Frederick Zimmerman, died in 1835; don't know where he was buried, no age given.
Barton Andrews, November 14, 1856, 64 years
Elizabeth Tallman, January 5, 1857, 73 years.
James Tallman, husband of the above, February 4, 1857, 74 years.
Lieut. Salathiel D. Colvin, in the battles of Shiloh and Stone River; wounded at Chickamauga, and died at Chattanooga Oc- tober 9, 1863, 36 years.
Rachel Andrews, September 29, 1867, 69 years; an earnest Methodist.
Joseph Macy, February 18, 1869, 66 years.
Jonathan W. Hunt, November 8, 1873, 59 years.
Nancy, wife of Albert Macy, July 24, 1874, 97 years.
John C. Retz, August 4, 1876, 66 years.
Hardy Evans, March 18, 1877, 77 years.
Sarah E., wife of William Browne, 73 years.
Saratoga (Ward Township, Section 6, Town 20, Range 15; James T. Evans, proprietor; 110 lots; recorded June 9, 1874). -Ann, wife of John A. Warren, April 21, 1878, 63 years.
Mary; wife of John R. Warren, October, 1879, 52 years.
David Almenrode, June, 1880, 65 years.
Hiram Gillum, July 27, 1871, 67 years.
Mary Ann, wife of John A. Bransz, March 10, 1875, 62 years.
Elizabeth wife of E. C. Hendrickson, February 5, 1876, 60 years.
Saratoga Cemetery is new, the town itself having had an existence only a few years.
Sheets' Graveyard (near Union City, Section 28, Town 18, Range 1) .- Lydia, wife of A. Sinks, April 24, 1858, 62 years. Peter Weimar, August 31, 1859, 60 years.
Never much used, and now lying in the corner of a field,
wholly neglected, the stones lying broken and prostrate on the ground, A sad sight, a forsaken, forgotten graveyard, left to the weeds or the ruthless plow desecrating the hallowed soil.
Snow Hill (Washington Township, Section 23, Town 19, Range 16) .-- John Hinshaw June 18, 1855, 72 years.
Margaret, wife of John Hinshaw, February 17, 1860, 69 years. Isaac Robbins, October 22, 1865, 72 years.
Samuel Hiatt, March 12, 1866, 61 years.
John N. Derickson, November 7, 1876, 69 years.
Originally in connection with a Methodist Church, but that has been gone for many years.
Sparrow Creek (north of Buena Vista; Section 33, 'fown 20, Range 14). - This graveyard is much out of repair. Few tomb- stones are found. Daniel Beals' grave is there, who was quite aged. Several Addingtons lie there, but no gravestones, except Daniel Beals,' show an age beyond sixty years. Many graves appear, but nearly all have only rough stones, without any mark or definite token. A Friends' Meeting-House was once here, but it has been gone for forty years or more. The ceme- tery has an old fence around it, but the only way of access is through an old field, and it is, perhaps, fifty rods from the high- way.
Spartansburg (Greensfork Township, Section 10, Town 16, Range 1). - Ephraim Bowen, Sr., August 20, 1858, 89 years. Hannah Bowen, September 1, 1844, 67 years.
Elizabeth Ranney, September 7, 1859, 72 years.
Elizabeth, wife of Abram Manning, February 16, 1862, 69 years.
Caleb Manning, August 22, 1864, 64 years.
Mary Jackson, August 5, 1863, 66 years.
Hosea Knox, January 3, 1869, 73 years.
Jesse Manning, Angust 4, 1871, 75 years.
John McKim, May 26, 1873, 61 years.
Mary, wife of Thomas Hongh, July 1, 1873, 66 years.
James M. Bailey, October 22, 1873, 64 years.
Margaret, wife of Philip Hulvey, August 21, 1874, 73 years. Elizabeth, wife of William Sasser, January 1, 1877, 64 years.
Mary Ann Patchin, February 27, 1879, 65 years.
Edward Jackson, February 26, 1879, 79 years.
Steubenville (Green Township, Section 13, Town 21, Range 12) .- Benjamin Morris, March 28, 1846, 88 years. Moses Meek, March 22, 1846, 75 years.
Hannah, wife of Moses Meek, September 1, 1862, 80 years. William P. Gray. November 7, 1860, 72 years.
Mary, wife of William P. Gray, October 18, 1861, 72 years. Hannah, wife of John Dull, January 3, 1876, 50 years.
Elizabeth, wife of Zebulon Cantrell, July 2, 1872, 61 years.
A church was built here in early times, but never finished, nor used for worship.
Swingly (one and a half miles southeast of Windsor, Stony Creek Township; Section 32, Town 20, Range 12). - Catharine, wife of Christian See, August 18, 1836, 49 years.
Mary, wife of Elias King, March 1, 1845, 68 years.
Jane, wife of Moses Neely, March 26, 1848, 62 years.
Agnes, wife of Henry Jones, July 26, 1848, 66 years. Moses Neely, April 3, 1853, 72 years.
Margaret Clevinger, January 26, 1867, 76 years.
Samuel Clevinger, Sr., June 7, 1867, 81 years, soldier of 1812 probably.
Daniel Kegerries, born May 25, 1806, and died September 4, 1868, 62 years. .
Jacob Helm, September 10, 1869, 65 years.
Mary A., wife of Daniel Kegerries, November 6, 1874, 58 years. Soldier, no name nor stone.
Thornburg (Hardshaw Township, Section 4, Town 20, Range 12) .-- Abram Clevinger, very old; Eunice, wife of the above, very old. We learned but little concerning the above burial gronnd. It was once with a Friends' Meeting-House, but the meeting was " laid down" (discontinued), and the graveyard has been bnt little in use for many years. We did not succeed in making it a visit. That is the only one (so far as we are aware) to which we failed to give a personal examination, being prevented therefrom by unavoidable circumstances.
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Union Baptist (Colored) (southeast of Pleasant View, Section 13, Town 19, Range 12) .- Amy, wife of Robert Scott, 1864, 84 years.
Robert Scott, buried at Dunkirk in 1848, 78 years.
Betsy Stafford, very old. Rev. Samuel Jones, 62 years, Baptist,
Isom Davis, 70 years.
George Smith, old. Betsy Jones, very old.
Wells White, old. Jacob Boone, very old. Charity Boone, 80 years.
Note -- No stones; graveyard neglected.
Union (two miles south of Windsor, Section 5, Town 20, Range 12)-Drummond Smithson, December 31, 1844, born July 12, 1754; one year old when the old French war broke out; twenty-two years old (lacking eight days), at the signing of the "immortal declaration," died aged 90 years.
Mary, wife of Drummond Smithson, January 16, 1851, 97 years. John Fletcher, August 20, 1854, 60 years.
John B. Sample, August 23, 1854, 64 years.
William Moore, October 7, 1855, 88 years.
Winney, wife of William Moore, October 17, 1855, 95 years. John Fetters, December 30, 1859, 59 years.
John M. Driskill, Company B, Thirty-sixth Indiana, died at Nelson's Furnace, Ky., February 26, 1862, 25 years,
Simon Driskill, died at Nashville, Tenn., March 25, 1862, 23 years.
William S. Driskill, Company B, Thirty-sixth Indiana, December 31, 1862, 21 years,
Mary, wife of William Jackson, February 17, 1864, 63 years. Mary B., wife of Samuel B. Clevenger, May 24, 1864, 55 years. Alexander Campbell, May 19, 1865, 61 years.
Mary, wife of John Fetters, October 7, 1865, 63 years. Samuel B. Clevenger, November 30, 1865, 64 years.
Solomon Faulkner, born June 26, 1799, and died August 25, 1867, 68 years.
Elizabeth Wolfe, wife of Michael Wolfe, November 4, 1867, 72 years.
Catharine, wife of Wesley Clevinger, September 20, 1868, 60 years.
John A. Clevinger, May 25, 1869, 43 years. Jinzy, wife of William Moore, January 27, 1870, 74 years. Michael Wolfe, born March 18, 1791, and died March 21, 1870, 79 years.
Susannah, wife of E. T. Thornburg, November 4, 1872, 60 years.
Rev. Samuel Hardesty, February 11, 1873, 44 years. Wesley Clevinger, June 8, 1873, 67 years.
Rebecca, wife of Issac Amburn, June 28, 1873, 76 years. John Dudley, March 24, 1874, 83 years.
Mary, wife of Ira E. Smithson, July 13, 1874, 75 years. William B. Thornburg, December 26, 1874, 33 years. Sarah, wife of Samuel O'Donald, January 23, 1875, 70 years. John Farker, February 16, 1875, 82 years.
Samuel O'Donald, May 6, 1875, 71 years. Margaret, wife of James Neely, June 20, 1875, 64 years. James Neely, March 8, 1876, 67 years.
John N. Odle, November 3, 1876, 54 years.
John W. Dudley, December 2, 1876, 34 years.
Mshlon Clevinger, February 20, 1877, 60 years.
Docia, wife of John Dudley, February 3, 1878, 77 years. Elder George W. Terrell, March 22, 1878, 74 years. Henry Pool, August 30, 1878, 43 years.
Margaret, wife of Amos Smith, November 3, 1879, 76 years. Ruth, wife of Solomon Faulkner, born August 21, 1808, and died June 2, 1881, 73 years.
Three soldiers, no name nor stone.
At the first grave in Union Cemetery, Mr. Clevinger, then a young man, stuck into the ground s sprig of a tree, and the sprig is growing still, a pretty large tree. Union Cemetery is large, finely situated, and well cared for, and it seems to be extensively patronized.
Union Chapel (west of Bloomingsport, Section 11, Town 18, Range 13) :- Ann, wife of Isaiah Rogers, February 21, 1849, 55 years.
Jane Mumbower, December 6, 1849, 68 years.
Rachel, wife of William Davisson, January 23, 1852, 73 years.
John Simcoke, July 11, 1853, 86 years.
Robert Willis, February 22, 1857, 88 years, soldier of old wars.
Edward Fennimon, December 29, 1858, 78 years.
John W. Cox, Company F, Thirty-sixth Indiana; enlisted September 1, 1861; wounded at Chickamauga, and died at Chat- tanoogs October 8, 1863, 18 years.
William Engle, Thirty-sixth Indiana, wounded at Shiloh, 21 years.
William Botkin, Sixty-ninth Regiment Indiana, was in the battle of Richmond, Ky., and died at St. Louis February 6, 1863, 21 years.
Mercy, wife of Joshua Sharp, June 2, 1863, 65 years. Mary Ann, wife of Edward Fennimore, September 19, 1868, 93 years.
Pryor Harvey, December 8, 1869, 68 years.
Samuel W. Fennimore, April 10, 1872, 65 years. Susanna, wife of Robert Penery, October 27, 1873, 66 years. Thomas Phillips, April 9, 1874, 82 years.
Caleb Fennimore, March 24, 1876, 61 years.
Susan, wife of W. A. Mumbower, November 22, 1876, 62 years.
Peter Botkin, November 24, 1876, 72 years.
Robert Willis, a soldier of 1812; date and age not known; Capt. Craig, of the last war; William Daugherty and wife, who were very old, are buried at Union Chapel. He was a poor man with a large family, but was a hard worker, and cleared up during his life vast tracts of land.
CEMETERIES, UNION CITY.
The first burying ground for Union City was laid out by Hon. Jere Smith and Dr. J. N. Converse, north of the original plat, chiefly between Howard and Plum, and somewhat north of Division street, and including what is now Oak Grove, the ele- gant residence and grounds of E. L. Anderson, Esq.
There were 517 lots for private owners, and Lots 25 and 26 besides. Some burials took place there, but the ground seemed not suitable, and it was but little used, and at this time many, perhaps most or all of the bodies, have been removed.
Other grounds were selected, an association was formed, and a new cemetery was established. Union City Cemetery Associa- tion was formed February 4, 1863. The first Trustees were Finley Maloy, James White, Isaac P. Gray, John L. Rosenbush, Joel N. Converse.
The company first bought six acres of land of Joel N. Converse, west of the present city limits, between the pike and the rail- road. They next (in 1867), bought about one acre of Joel N. Converse, extending the ground north to the pike. and two acres southward to the railroad; plat recorded October 21, 1870. The third purchase was twelve acres west of the creek (1874). This last tract, as also the new grounds south, has never been platted into lots. Cost of the grounds: six acres at $100 per acre, $600; three acres at $150 per scre, $450; twelve acres at $200 per acre, $2,400; total, $3,450. The original six acres were platted into 825 lots, with suitable streets between the lots, the record of the plat being made July 28, 1863, and the new purchase north has been platted. The plat was recorded October 21, 1870; number of lots, 126; size of lots, eight to thirty feet wide; price of lots in general, $1.50 per foot front; price of lots on streets, 10- per cent extra; price of lots at corners, 20 per cent extra; owners of lots, 328; price of digging graves at first, $1.50, under ten years; $2 above ten years; price of digging graves now, $3 aud $4. The company has been somewhat crippled by the last purchase, being considerably in debt on account of it, and not much im- provement has been attempted. However, a hedge has been set around the cemetery, and it is now in the second year's growth. The ground is well eitusted for the purposes of burial, being
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moderately rolling. Several lots have been set apart irrecoverably for the interment of soldiers, as also a considerable space for the use of non-lot owners. Many fine monuments and some costly ones have been erected at the graves of friends, and some shrubbery has been set, and fences placed around lots, and the cemetery begins to present a neat and tasteful, and even elegant appearance. Among others is found the beautiful shaft erected as a soldier's monument. It makes a fine display, and is a cred- itable and appropriate tribute to the memory of the brave de- parted. It is to be regretted that provision was not made for engraving upon the monument the several names of the soldiers at their respective interments. The Sextons have been as follows: First, Samuel Sutton, until April, 1872; second, F. A. Hinsch, until April, 1874; third, J. M. Wren, until December, 1875; fourth, B. F. Buckingham, to the present time, July 27, 1881.
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