Located west of Bartonia on the Greenville Pike, east of the Boundary Line, just across the road from Old School Number 9. This cemetery was started in the 1840's.
Tucker's History Page 122.
Bartonia Cemetery, Wayne, Section 26, Town 17, Range 1.
Balser Cramer, died July 23, 1863, aged 63 years.
Benjamin Bright, died February 24, 1870, 66th year.
James L. Bright, died February 26, 1870, 70th year.
Matilda Trammel, died December 12, 1871, 64 years.
I.W. Trammel, died March 5, 1872, 72 years.
Abigail Bright, died January 1, 1875, 65 years, mother of fifteen children.
Bartonia Cemetery Maps
Whitesell also known as Conklin cemetery is located on the Old Union City -Winchester Pike, at County Road 600 East. It was started around 1849 by Jacob Whitesell.
This cemetery is being restored by Susan Welch and her family, for more information on the restoration project , please send an Email to: Susan Welch.
Tucker's History Page 131-132
Whitesell (three miles west of Union, Section8, Town 20, Range 15).
Mary Weld, August 19, 1851, 60 years.
Thomas Weld, January 3, 1852, 69 years.
Eleanor Taggart, July 25, 1857, 92 years.
Jane W., wife of J.B. Lawrence, January 17, 1858, 68 years.
Samuel Conklin, March 30, 1860, 73 years.
Joel F. Smith, November 3, 1863, 18 years.
Henry Whitesell, March 7, 1868, 82 years.
William Martin, September 4, 1872, 67 years.
Jacob Whitesell, April 9, 1977, 78 years.
Mary, wife of Jacob Whitesell, November 14, 1863, 72 years.
Magdalena, wife of Henry Whitesell, July 3, 1877, 83 years.
Conklin Cemetery Maps
Conklin Cemetery Burials
Conklin Cemetery Burials on Find A Grave
Conklin Cemetery Restoration
Just west of the Ohio State line on the Greenville Pike there was a family burial plot in the field on the north side. The bodies were removed to Union City and east into Ohio a short distance.
Tucker's History Page 124.
Griffis Cemetery, Wayne, Section 25, Town 17, Range 1.
James Griffis, October 1, 1859, 61 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 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 persons have been buried there.
Hoover Cemetery is south of Union City,on County Road 50 South, east of State Road 227.
The cemetery was in use by the early 1840's. A number of field stones were located here with no information, and many stones were broken.
Tucker's History Page 124-125
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.
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.
Hoover Cemetery Maps
Hoover Cemetery Burials on Find A Grave
Located on the corner of County Road 100 South and 400 East. This is an Old Quaker cemetery, started very early. Jericho is named for Jeremiah Cox who came here after helping found Richmond, and deciding it was too populated.
Sexton: Donald Peacock (765) 584-8743
Tucker's History Page 125
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 is an old burial-ground. Very many graves have only rough, unmarked stones. Some have initials, with neither name, age or date. Is it too late, even yet, to supply the lack and 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 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 remains of those who were, during their lives, honored and beloved.
Jericho Cemetery Burials on Find A Grave
Jericho Friends Meeting
Jericho School Photos
The old Jericho Cemetery, refered to as the Peacock Cemetery is north of County Road 100 South and west of County Road 500 East. It was the earliest known burial site in Wayne Township. A memorial stone is placed to mark the spot of the twenty or more graves. It is in the middle of a farm.
Tucker's History Page 127.
Peacock Graveyard (one and a half miles northeast of Jericho Meeting-house, Section 30, Town 20, Range 15).
Abram Peacock, 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 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.
Old Jericho Cemetery Records
On a farm south of State Road 32 at County Road 500 East, there was once a burial site for the Rowe family, it is believed the bodies were removed.
This Catholic Cemetery is located on County Road 400 North and County Road 800 East, in the southeast corner of the intersection. The church is located in Union City.
Tucker's History Page 122.
Catholic Cemetery, Union City, IND., Two miles north, Section 23, Town 18, Range 1.
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.
Ferdinand Wiese, died January 11, 1861, aged 63 years.
Patrick Regan, died October 31, 1869, 60 years.
Gertrude Wiese, died May 10, 1872, 73d year.
Joseph Schranz, died November 5, 1874, 62d year.
Thomas Burke, Mayo County, Ireland, died November 26, 1878, 56 years.
Daniel Kitty, died October 21, 1879, 64 years.
Saint Mary's Cemetery Maps
Sheets burial ground was reported abandoned in Tucker's 1882 History of Randolph County. It was located north of Union City.
Tucker's History Page 129.
Sheet's Graveyard (near Union City, Section 28, Town 18, Range 1).
Lydia, wife of A. Sinks, April 24, 1858, 62 years.
Peter Weimer, 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 weeks or the ruthless plow desecrating the hallowed soil.
Located near south Salem, north of County Road 100 South, and west of County Road 650 East, just back of where the Wayne School was.
This burial spot was for members of the early Shockney family. Patrick was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. A memorial stone lists the names of those buried here.
Shockney Cemetery Maps
The first cemetery in Union City was north between Howard and Plum Streets.
But proved not satisfactory and there is no longer any sign there were burials there.
Originally it had 517 lots platted by Jeremiah Smith and Dr. Converse. More information on this cemetery from Tucker's History is mentioned below with Union City Cemetery.
The Union City Cemetery is at the West end of Union City, south of the Park.
It was started in the early 1860's, but records were not kept before 1872.
Tucker's History Page 130 -131.
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 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 a 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, berween the pike and the railroad. The 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 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 front foot; price of lots on street, 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 and $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.
No records of burials was kept for many years. the record was begun April 8,1872, and has been continued to the present time.
The number of interments is given herewith; Rest of the year 1872, twenty-nine; whole of 1873, forty-one; 1874, thirty-nine;1875, forty-five; 1876, sixty-nine; 1877, forthy-five; 1878, thirty-six; 1879, fifty-two; 1880, forty-three; 1881 (part), forty.
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 lowet 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, and sometimes greatly impressive observances have been held at the cemeery from year to year. The present burial-ground is permanently consecrated to its sadly interesting purposes. The location is at a reasonable,yet not too great distance from the city. The ground is suffieciently 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 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, somthing 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 aprove the judgement and justify the discretion of those who made this second selection of a cemetery for Union City.
The regulations as to entrance and deportment are strict, yet not too severe, but simly 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 buring ground here before its use as a public cemetery.
Frederic Roe, October 17, 1871, 69 years.
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.
Barbara, wife of Charles Patty, October 22, 1864, 64 years.
Rev. Timothy Colclazer, September 26, 1865, 54 years.
Isaac Beal, April 11, 1869, 60 years.
Mary, wife of Enoch Rogers, October 4, 1868, 81 years.
Mary Swain, September 25, 1868, 64 years.
James M. Worstler, July 8, 1868, 27 years.
Samuel Jones, June 29, 1869, 79 years.
Mary Morris, September 14, 1869, 78 years.
Darius Converse, March 21, 1869, 52 years.
D. French, M.D.,January 26, 1870, 68 years.
Ann, wife of L.B. Pope, June 21, 1870, 75 years.
Jacob Livengood, October 26, 1870, 63 years.
Sarah, wife of J. G. McKee, December 30, 1871, 65 years.
Elizabeth Thomson, March 20, 1871, 84 years.
James McFeely, September 23, 1872, 75 years.
Ariston Dwinell (teacher), February 17, 1872, 30 years.
Edward Starbuck, Jr., September 25, 1874, 61 years.
Mary Starbuck (first wife), January 13, 1860, 40 years.
Lydia Ann Starbuck (second wife), March 27, 1863, 37 years.
Hon. Jeremiah Smith, December 28, 1874, 70 years.
Cynthia Smith, wife of above, July 7, 1872, 57 years.
Eva G. Heck, May 1, 1875, 68 years.
Timothy Masslich, Litiz, Penn., March 4, 1875, 73 years.
Hannah, wife of William Parent, October 28, 1875, 65 years.
John Keever, September 10, 1875, 61 years.
Jacob Livengood, June 23, 1875, 63 years.
John G. Doser, August 13, 1876, 65 years.
James Rubey, M. D., December 17, 1876, 70 years.
Melissa A., wife of J. S. Lotz, March 26, 1876, 51 years.
Susan, wife of B. Harris, March 12, 1877, 84 years.
Louisiana, wife of Daniel Paulus, December 1, 1877, 68 years.
Louisa Wilkerson, March 21, 1878, 80 years.
Nathan P. Woodbury, March 15, 1878, 79 years.
John Fisher, February 1881, 89 years.
Mrs. Masslich, mother of Bently Masslich, summer of 1881; very old.
Jane Fisher, relict of John Fisher, February, 1882, 78 years.
Union City Cemetery Maps
Union City Cemetery Photos
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