Randolph County, Indiana - Chapter 9: Cemeteries, 1882

Chapter 9: Cemeteries

i he is thought that a general account of the cemeteries, their location, the names of persons buried respectively in each (so far as can be ascertained from tombstones, or otherwise), with age, date of death, etc., would be of interest as a part of the general history of the county. It is greatly to be regretted, however, that so many of the pioneers who are known to have died within the county have no memorial discoverable, by way of tombstones or otherwise, that may tell to succeeding generations when, where, how long they lived and acted among men. We would fain hope that the next ages may show improvement in this respect, though nothing done as to coming generations can ever supply the lack of care in the past. a

Alexander Graveyard

Town 18, Range 1, Wayne; Smith's, family, Section 5, Town 18, Range 13, West River; Snow Hill, Section 23, Town 19, Range 14, Washington; Spartansburg, Section 10, Town 16, Range 1, Greensfork; Steubenville, Section 13, Town 21, Range 12, Green; Sparrow Creek, Friends, White River: Swingly, southeast of Windsor, Section 32, Town 20, Range 12, Stony Creek; Thornburg (Hardshaw), Section 4, Town 20, Range 12, Stony Creek; Union Baptist (colored), Section 13, Town 19, Range 12, Nettle Creek; Union, southeast of Windsor, Section 5, Town 20, Range 12, Stony Creek; Union Chepel, west of Bloomingsport, Section 11, Town 18, Range 138, West River; Union City, Section 26, Town 18, Range 1, Wayne; White River, Friends, Section 22, Town 20, Range 14, White River; Whitesell's, Section 8, Town 20, Range 15, Wayne; Windsor, Section 29, Town 19, Range 12, Stony Creek; Wiggs,' southeast of Spartansburg, (Norwich, old Quaker cemetery); Winchester, Section 20, Town 20, Range 14, White River. Thus there are, early or late, within the bounds of the county, not far from sixty burial grounds, public or private, besides others, mostly family grounds, concerning which no information has been obtained. Some of the cemeteries are in beautiful condition, being cared for in a neat, tasteful, becoming manner. Many, however, have been allowed to go out of repair, presenting a melancholy and forsaken aspect. ALEXANDER GRAVEYARD.

The Catholics have a cemetery two miles north of the city, on the Salem Pike, embracing a suitable quantity of land to answer the purposes of burial for many years to come. The ground seems well suited to the end intended, being dry and rolling, and capable of the adornment suitable for so sacred a spot. The location is greatly retired, one would think rather too much so for readiness of access, since the distance from town requires a journey of two miles from the church for every interment; however, the road thither is always in good condition.

A large congregation of Catholics reside at Union City, on both sides-of the line, and in the vicinity, and many burials occur among that class of our fellow citizens.

Epitaph. - "TI was a slave, freed by a lawsuit prosecuted by David White, the Quaker. May God bless his name! My husband's freedom was bought for $675. He made the money on rented land. Who of you that tauntingly say of my race, 'They can't take care of themselves,' have done better?"

Dunkirk Graveyard is one of the oldest in the county. It is full of graves, and doubtless contains the bodies of many old settlers. It has, however, but very few tombstones, and the places of burial of these ancient pioneers can never be known. Great numbers of rough, unlettered stones are found thickly set over the cemetery, and many unnoted hillocks raise their melancholy heads above the consecrated ground, but they yield no token of the one who may chance to lie buried deep beneath them. Why should it be thus? And shall this state of things continue through the ages to come? (od forbid!

Fairview Cemetery, Green, Section 4, Town 21, Range 12

FAIRVIEW CEMETERY, GREEN, SECTION 4, TOWN 21, RANGE 12. Robert McKinney, aged 61 years. Joseph McKenney; Revolutionary soldier, 90 years. Elizabeth, wife of Nathan Godwin, died July 24, 1843, 59th year.

John Miller, died April 15, 1856, 61st year. Samuel McClure, died in November, 1858, 75 years. Catharine Hall, died December 1, 1860, 90 years. Elizabeth Gilbert, died May 4, 1861, 63d year. Thomas J. Rees, killed at Pittsburg Landing April 7, 1862, Company K, Thirty-sixth Indiana, 21st year. Barbara McClure, died December 31, 1862, 80 years. James Campbell, Sr., died January 24, 1863, 71 years. Abigail, wife of Rev. Abner Wolverton, died August 6, 1863, 52d year. Marvel G. Street, Company EH, Thirty-sixth Indiana, died at Murfreeshoro, Tenn., April 22, 1863, 35 years. Eliza, wife of Moses Friddle, died October 14, 1863, 63d year. James Sullivan, died August 20, 1864, 63 years. Ailcey, wife of James Sullivan, died July 6, 1868, 64 years. Thomas A. Gustin, Company G, One Hundred and Twentyfourth Indiana, died October 20, 1864, 34 years. Oliver Sullivan, Company A, Highty-fourth Indiana, died July 13, 1864, 25 years. Loring B. Morris, Company E, Thirty-sixth Indiana, died November 15, 1864, 21 years. Franklin L. Keever, Company EH, Nineteenth Indiana, died April 12, 1865, 25 years. Alfred Evans, Company H, One Hundred and Thirtieth, Indiana, died April 9, 1865, 34 years. Michael Goons, died December 4, 1865, 68th year. Catharine, wife of Joshua Coram, died February 26, 1867, 74 years. Eli Jarnagin, died April 22, 1867 (soldier), 23 years. Randal! Lockhart, died May 27, 1867, 65 years. Elizabeth, wife of John Bone, died October 20, 1867, 61 years. Elizabeth Ulm, died December 23, 1867, 76 years. Susannah, wife of George Sites, died October 25, 1818, 60 ears. 'i Adam Keener, died December 3, 1869, 89th year. Rhoda, wife of Rev. Elijah Harbour, died July 15, 1870, 82 ears. i Rev. Elijah Harbour, died Seytember 13, 1872, 84 years. Prudence, wife of T. G. Harris, died September 15, 1871, 72 ears. : A. B. Webb, died December 20, 1872, 61 years. Antony W. McKinney (war of 1812), born in Kentucky in 1794, and died August 26, 1873, 79 years. Caleb Manor, died July 21, 1874, 68th year. John Life, Sr., died March 30, 1875, 75th year. Joel Wilson, died April 1, 1875, 70th year. William Rees, died May 9, 1875, 69th year. Jacob Wise, died June 8, 1875, 77th year. Nathan Godwin, died November 3, 1875. 96th year. Charles May, died September 18, 1876, 84th year. Rebecca, wife of John Campbell, died Oct. 25, 1879, 61 years. Laban Hickman, died January 7, 1877, 70 years. Isabel Beekman, died March 6, 1877, 59th year. T. C. Harris, died March 22, 1877, 78th year. Robert N. Judy (soldier), died September 4, 1877, 52 years.

Fountain Park Cemetery, Winchester

First Cemetery. - Charles Conway in 1834, established a graveyard near and east of the lot now occupied by the Christian (Disciple) Church. The intention had been to locate the burial ground east of Salt Creek, but for some reason that was never done.

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.

The first addition was 1513x2274 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, vonsisting of thirty-six lots, recorded July 19, 1867.

north and east sides, containing 126 lots, and recorded August 14, 1876. But the citizens were unreconciled to the inconveniences 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 movement proved a failure, and the committee never reported. Shortly afterward Gen. Asahel Stone purchased grounds of Christian Heaston, south of town, comprising forty acres, at a cost of $4,000; had it surveyed and platted in amost curious and picturesque manner at a further outlay of $300; and, on the first day of March, 1880, he, in conjuuction with his worthy wife, executed 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 characteristic of a resting-place for the dead, naming also three persons ds '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 interested assembly.

Addresses 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.

"Ts 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 fathomless waters without the hope of resurrection? True, indeed, 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 almost unchallenged conviction of the master minds of all ages, and the bed rock of every system of religion. * * * The profoundest depths of our being respond to this faith in an endless life. * * * Tet us abide therein until the end. * * * Tt will cheer us in life aud be our solace in the hour of death. It will give our lives at all times and in every struggle a heavenward side.

"T am now done. It seemed to me fit that in this 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 monuments of pride nor ambition, nor wealth nor even of sorrow, but rather let them be memorials of a people's faith in an overruling God, and of an endless life beyond the grave."

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 revere 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 completely 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.

Range 14

The above is only a private burying ground, on a beautiful knoll, in the middle of the " Old Griffis Farm," and but few persons have been buried there.

Hoover Cemetery, Two And One-Half Miles South Of Union City

Benjamin G. Lamb, volunteered July 26, 1862, in Company D, Sixty-ninth Indiana Regiment; discharged June 3, 1865, and died August 2, 1872, 33 years.

Jericho is an old burial-ground. Very many graves have only rough, 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, feit 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 mourning soul and bereaved comrades left behind, but also by suitable tokens, not costly and for vain show and display, but modest and appropriate, that future times may learn where lie the mortal remuins 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.

Nore - - Lynn Graveyard is an ancient burial-place, and contains 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, proprietor; 258 lots. Location, north side of the pike, opposite the old Maxville Cemetery, east of Maxville; recorded January 15, 1875.

Maxville Cemetery would seem to be an anciert burialground, though, for some reason, but few old persons have tombstones therein. One would suppose that many more have been deposited beneath this hallowed ground, but the earth gives no sign.

Miller's Burying-Ground (Schoolhouse No. 6, Ward Township, northeast quarter of Section 23, Town 21, Range 14). - Lucy Ann Poorman, wife of John Poorman, September 2, 1875, 57 years.

Nore - W. H. 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.

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

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, proprietor; number of lots, 110; Section 35, Town 21, Range 13; recorded August 11, 1877. - Maj. Brown, April 7, 1855, 63 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.

Norwich (old Quaker, near C. Crist's, southeast of Spartansburg, Section 15, Town 16, ftange 1). - This cemetery was established 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:

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 Peacock, 1833, over 70 years.

Notz - This yard has no tombstones, and George and Asenath 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.

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 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, January 3, 1877, 66 years.

Mrs. Kepler, very old. This cemetery is connected with a Presbyterian 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.

Prospect (Ward Township, Section 24, Town 21, Range 14, east of Deerfield).--Mary Cooper, wife of Ezekiel Cooper, January 20, 1846, 81 years.

It is rather remarkable that in a cemetery so old and so celebrated 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 been 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.

The old Ridgeville Graveyard 1s 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 appears to have been unsuitable, 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 feet; recorded October 23, 1866). - Edward McKew, June 29, 1850, 88 years.

A Mr. Clawson is thought to have been the first burial in Ritenour'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.

Lieut. Salathiel D. Colvin, in the battles of Shiloh and Stone River; wounded at Chickamauga, and died at Chattanooga October 9, 1863, 36 years.

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.

Sparrow Creek (north of Buena Vista; Section 33, Town 20, Range 14). - This graveyard is much out of repair. Few tombstones 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 cemetery 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 highway. Spartansburg (Greensfork Township, Section 10, Town 16, Range 1). - Ephraim Bowen, Sr., August 20, 1858, 89 years.

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.

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 ground. It was once with a Friends' Meeting-House, but the meeting was "laid down" (discontinued), and the graveyard has been but 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.

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.

At the first grave in Union Cemetery, Mr. Clevinger, then a young man, stuck into the ground a 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.

John W. Cox, Company F, Thirty-sixth Indiana; enlisted September 1, 1861; wounded at Chickamauga, and died at Chattanooga October 8, 1863, 18 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.

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 elegant 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 & new cemetery was established. Union City Cemetery Association 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 railroad. 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 creck (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 acre, $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 improvement 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 situated for the purposes of burial, being 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 creditable and appropriate tribute to the memory of the brave departed. 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.

The varying number of interments is somewhat striking: Last five months of 1880, thirteen; first five months of 1881, thirty-five; last three months of 1880, five; first three months of 1881, twenty-four; last two months of 1880, one; first two months of 1881, fourteen. The lowest number in one month is none; the greatest number is ten, viz., March, 1881.

This record of interments does not show the full number of deaths in the city or its vicinity. The Catholics have a cemetery in the neighborhood, and all persons belonging to them are interred in that inclosure. Many are taken to the places where friends or companions have been deposited in former years. Ever since the appointment of memorial services on Decoration Day, May 30th, (or May 31st if the 30th fall on Sunday), by the Grand Army of the Republic, appropriate and affecting. und sometimes greatly impressive observances have been held at the cemetery from year to year. The present burial-ground is apparently well suited to its objecte, and will remain doubtless permanently consecrated to its sadly interesting purposes. The location is at a reasonable, yet not too great distance from the city. The ground is sufficiently rolling to present an agreeable appearance, and dry enough to answer the use to which it has been devoted, with sufficient slope, moreover, to allow a ready and adequate drainage, lying on both sides of the bed of the Little Mississinewa.

The situation is retired, yet not too much so, lying between the highway leading to the fair grounds on the one hand, and the two westward railroad tracks on the other, and only just outside the city limits. As already hinted, something has been done by way of ornamentation, many tasteful and some costly monuments have been erected in memorial of friends who are " loved, not lost;" and the whole result appears to approve the judgment and justify the discretion of those who made this second selection of a cemetery for Union City. The regulations as to en- 'trance and deportment are strict, yet not too severe, but simply intended to secure the quiet, order and decorum needful in a place allotted to the resting-place for the dead. Location Wayne Township, Section 26, Town 18, Range 1 - Amasa Payne, November 2, 1856, 84 years. Catharine Roe, January 15, 1857, 59 years. Note. - The above must have been buried elsewhere and transferred to this place, or else there was a private burying ground here before its use as a public cemetery.

John Hartman, March 19, 1864, 22 years, First Sergeant of Company C, Fifty-seventh Indiana Regiment, served two years and four months, and died at home.

White River Cemetery is very old, Friends' meeting having been established about vr even before 1820. Mrs. Edwards, mother of Hamilton Edwards, resident south of Winchester, was buried in the autumn of 1881, being of a great age, 84 years.

Winchester (old; David Heaston, proprietor; seventy-seven lots: location, southwest of Winchester, Section 20, Town 20, Range 14; size, 1514x2274 feet; recorded May 22, 1862. A. d. Neff' addition; location, south side; thirty-six lots; recorded July 19, 1867. A. J. Neff's second addition, 126 lots; location, north and east sides; recorded August 14, 1816. Fountain Park Cemetery, established by Asahel Stone, and donated by him to the citizens of Winchester for the purposes of a public cemetery; size of tract, forty acres; recorded March 1, 1880).

Rebecca, wife of William Badgley, born in New Jersey December 11, 1772, and died February 9, 1859, removed to Fountain Park Gemetery in 1881, 86 years.

Elizabeth Neff. oldest daugher of John Neff, Esq., and wife of Jacob Elzroth, Esq., born in Botetourt County, Va., October 16, 1796, and died September 20, 1864, 68 years.

Capt. J. Lawrence Neff, Captain of Company G, Or 2 Hundred and Twenty-fourth Indiana, commissioned in F bruary, 1864, Resaca to Atlanta, Franklin and Nashville; xilled at Kingston, N. C., at the head of his company, March 10, 1865, age not given.

John Bolender, served six years as a grenadier, three years in active service against Napoleon Bonaparte, and died December 9, 1865, 75 years.

David Heaston, December 18, 1865, born in Rockingham County, Va., came to Randolph in1819, soldier of 1812, 72 years. Sarah, wife of Christian Heaston, May 1, 1866, 63 years.

Promiscuous. - John Monks and wife are buried on the old Monks farm, south of Winchester; John Irving and wife are buried on the Irving farm, southof Winchester; Windsor Wiggs is buried in the cemetery on the Crist farm, southeast of Spartanburg. He died November 27, 1856; Sarah Wiggs, widow of

Windsor Wiggs, died August 4, 1881; William Smith, father of Hon. Jere Smith, buried on his old farm in Section 5, Town 18, Range 13; burying ground 150 feet square, iron fence around the grave; Mrs. William Smith, wife of the above, buried at the same place; Daniel Bales, buried at Sparrow Creek Cemetery, southwest of Dunkirk.

Doubtless many persons are interred throughout the county in private grounds unknown to the general public at the present time, as also to the writer of these sketches.

In concluding this memorial to the dead, it is proper to state that great labor has been bestowed upon the subject, yet the result obtained capnot be supposed to be entirely accurate, nor fully complete. But it may be truly declared that the whole is as thorough as it was in the power of the author to accomplish; and the hope is indulged that a generous public will appreciate the difficulties of the task attempted, and forgive such defects and errors as may by a critical examination be discovered to exist.