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CHURCH CEMETERY Located on the East side of 450E directly across from 1150N, in Perry Township, Miami County, Indiana. It is about half way between the Tombaugh Cemetery and the Shoemaker Cemetery, The cemetery has been abandoned for many years. Jesse L. Tombaugh, father of Wendell C. Tombaugh, co- compiler of this book, who was born in 1886 and who was raised nearby on the Hezekiah Tombaugh farm, recalls in 1977 that there was a church and a cemetery at this location when he was a young man. Although he was not a member, he attended the church a few times and was acquainted with its membership, but can now recall only the name of one boy who attended, namely Waldo Achey. The cemetery had 50 to 100 markers "at least", and was located on "close to an acre" on the East and South sides of the church. The church was of the Winebrenarian denomination, and perhaps as late as the 1920's the congregation merged with the Brethren denomination and purchased the Enterprise Church, which had been abandoned and which had reverted to the donor. Hezekiah Tombaugh, grandfather of Wendell C. Tombaugh and father of Jesse L. Tombaugh. It is possible that some bodies have been reburied, perhaps In the Tombaugh Cemetery. According to a hand-written paper in the Genealogy Division, Indiana State Library, Indianapolis, Indiana, Hazel Rhodes of Roann, Indiana, in 1955 was unable to ascertain the name of the cemetery. She wrote: "About 1916 - the last of remember (sic) - there was a small cemetery containing some eight to a dozen stones.... on what is now the Donald Musselman farm. "Strangely I can find no one among the older people of the community who really know anything about it, some saying that... it was perhaps one quarter acre in extent others saying it was quite small .... others not remembering it at all. "I visited it in the fall of 1954. There were no stones standing and in a rock pile on the site of the plot.... were: 'Nancy, wife of J. Aitchison, 1851 - 19 yr. "Rebecca, dau of D. & R. Semans, 1851 - 21 yr. "(-----J, dau of D. Seamans, 1852, 1 yr. "(-----), son of D. Seamans, 1854, 17 days," Return To The Main Index Page |
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