Dyer Cemetery

Clay County Indiana
Dyer Cemetery

The Dyer cemetery was located in Clay County IN, Cass Township, about 1 mile West of Poland IN. This would be near the central part of the township in the year 1830. It was located on a hill in a wheat field Northeast of Candle Corner on State Road 42.
One of my family lines was Purnal Chance who was buried in this cemetery. Harriet Mead of Nice, Calif sent me the names of the burials in 1980. She had received the info from a Mary Gibbens, Center Point IN.
When we visited the cemetery in 1995 to check on the names on the stones, we found the cemetery had been plowed under and the stones were all broken and wheat growing in the area. The last information we have about Indiana is if the cemetery is 100 yrs old, you can do whatever you want with it. Do not know if the State ever changed the law.

INDEX                                                   Maiden Names of Wives
Anderson    Barbara Neese                    Anderson, Delitha Comer
    Isaac                                                      Barnes, Starling chance
    John                                                         Clark, Emily Comer
    Reuben                                                Dyer, Zipporah A. Anderson
    William                                                     Neese, Barbara Anderson
    Zipporah
    Zipporah A. Dyer

Chance    Purnal
    Starling Barnes

Clark    Anderson
    Elizabeth
    John
    Reuben

Comer    Delitha Anderson
    Emily Clark
    Mary
    Mitchell
    Thomas

Dyer    Luke
    Sally

Green    -----?----

Mace    Isaac
    Mary A.
    N.M.

Peyton    Nancy
    Samuel M.
    William

Willey    Alexander
    Mrs. Alexander

ANDERSON    Zipporah A. Dyer
09 Jul 1849    aged 59y 6m 11 d
w/o of Reuben Anderson
John
20 Feb 1848    24 Mar 1848 *
s/o Wm & B Anderson

Wm
20 Feb 1848    12 Apr 1848
aged 1m 26 d *
s/o Wm & B Anderson
Twin sons born to Wm & Barbara Neese Anderson 20 Feb 1848 according to Family Bible now in possession of Bertha Neese Stockdale, Covington IN
Zipporah
11 Aug 1853        aged 16y 7m 16d
d/o Wm & B Anderson

CHANCE    Purnal
07 Apr 1850
aged 81y
h/o Starling Barnes Chance
Starling Barnes
07 Apr 1852
aged 77y 4m 1d
w/o Purnal Chance

CLARK    Elizabeth
04 Oct 1855    aged 60y
w/o John Clark
Anderson        12 Oct 1852    aged 38y 6m
Reuben         25 Aug 1846    aged 15y

COMER    Mitchell
17 Nov 1839    31 Mar 1870
h/o Emily Clark Comer
s/o Thomas & Delitha Anderson Comer

MACE    Isaac
12 Jun 1866        aged 1y 12d
s/o N.H. & Mary A. Mace

PEYTON    Samuel M
11 Aug 1860
aged 25y 2m 14d
s/o Wm & Nancy Peyton
There are no stones standing for the people listed below. However, Samantha Comer Campbell of Poland IN (Dec 1948) told my mother and me many of times that they were buried there.
She was the granddaughter of Thomas Comer & daughter of Mary Comer.

NEESE    Barbara
14 March 1814
26 Feb 1848
Info from Bible Record
w/o Wm Anderson

ANDERSON    Isaac
abt 1818    abt 1870
s/o Reuben & Zipporah Dryer Anderson
Note: this is the Isaac Anderson said to be buried here in Blanchard’s 1884 History, p 311.
The other Isaac Anderson, brother to Ruben, is buried in Poland on his property.

COMER    Thomas
ca 1790/1800    1844/1845
h/o Delitha Anderson Comer who is buried in Poland Chapel Cemetery
Mary    27 Apr 1838    13 May 1867
d/o Thomas & Delitha Anderson Comer

DYER
Luke
aged 80/90 in 1840 Census
Sally
1836/1840
w/o Luke Dyer
According to Blanchard’s 1884 History p. 311 the following were buried here:

ANDERSON    Reuben
ca 1785    after 1836 & before 1840

GREEN
Unknown        no record

WILLY    Alexander
after 1830 & before 1840
Mrs. Alexander        no record


KEY
s/o = Son of        25y = 25 Years     2m = 2 Months
d/o = Daughter of        ca = About
h/o = Husband of
w/o = Wife of

Information was updated June 1995 by Merrill Price.

Merrill Price – MPIowa @mchsi.com

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