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FRAITtlEVILIiK CEMETERY, PRO-BABK r OLDEST- XX THE COUNTY.*■ r--rIt is; tjhere where; Sleep | Many pf * County’s Pioneers. '.Prai the ’ex j county9iery in it it alIndian; beauty in that■ ' tones si- • igive ca« rand nil• jIt is poie^lle' cemetery, which is- inreifce northwest part of theis 'probably the oldest cejhe-rthe • county now in use land1 J ■ .* ■ V^:-' '■a one of the oldest in cen'f ■ -V. -, but age has not dimmed the• • • * -. : v 1 ■of the spot, as thp3e who live■]V.section and who have: loVedi ■*'This back ’in bers of are intbhr bej«• . . f mRaven Jesse E Orem, den, M and Sa aongbe duga childin: 1845.?ep in the bosom of that soil! • • • . ■ ’■ *' ■ •* . • '*rV treful; attention lo its, upkeep the year it is as iiivjitihgf as ssible tb- make it. ■ I • . :-b!cemetery ; was establisheda very early day'; and mem; many o(f tljie pioneet familiesirred there:, among ;the ntitn-ig Riley Su’ite, Roley. Smj McReynblds/ ‘Vincent GariiSr, at cliffy Daniel Kuhn,.. JosfahVilliam Harold, Abram Wjar-: idisdn Peters, Alex: ! Hughes muel Hughes.t(l3cThese arethepjonepr£ of thb late 30s and eafly 40s. j The first j grave \o at this, cemetery was tha,t of of Jackson Watfcj. this beihg, and the*second was that of a child I of Thomas Ellis, th is being soon at er the interment of the Wattchildocation is I high a.hd drv; ig an ideal one. The soil j is• * • - \. * » ; * I • • ; \ »clay and Nits natural eleva-tI♦ •f1tIa:: The site bei a hardtion makes ;it dryi. This ; cemeterywas laithe boa: nolds t had kil f earl y d; The t|91*0lit when-all that countrywas a wilderness; and it was one bfis of the j late -Raven : McRey-lat on tb'is very groiind. heed three black bears in an4 • ' ‘ ■ . 9 , 1 . • . •‘ • .■ i • *- '■ • ! “■hfa(1sdi;hdgc.•tlbrange.t beople of (the community ar-of the p»sexton. Holey S that pai Smith ain thatthe bull• * ♦ .sectionty from lived 1nalfSof tfThereJing stany donations for the upkeeplace and Enoch Smith is the He is, the son ; of; the late nith; one i of the; pioneers of t of the vccjuntyj jrhe elder ssisted in, felling the timber community ahd gaive: aid * in ding of the road'!; on ( theine. He jcame to this coun-Syitzerland couittyjj. and had this county sixty-five y^afs,at time m Prairie (township.rs;bis a twoding neais building is^uslodge piis House ■the next raised |tlthis time* *• .. * •membersneeessar: and the 1.25 pc is loud4 and it nluring aaf that 1►first liarstory brick build-• • • . *, .the grounds ^nded .forJ church andrposes. ’-The Masonic lodge1 there and Enoch. Smith,m was the first Nman to be.hlt;titie.i *b:bgiclylt;aiillwarofere. ’ Thi^ ‘was in 1878.^ AtHie order has' a (-very -stronghip. But little expense is r’ in maintaining this order dues are j at this time onlysWJJKarfaher year. The genial sextonin -his praise ot this order•J * . ; . .‘ his pleasure to say that• - r || • ' ! ’ J '•, ’ ' *bthe years of the';'existepee idge'.he has yetltp hear the ill word, (to be fused insidelO!tedyM
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Tipton Tribune
Tipton, Indiana, US
Fri, Sep 05, 1913
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