"Science is a cemetery of dead ideas"
~ Miguel de Unamuno

Location: This abandoned cemetery is located in St. Mary's Township, Adams Co, IN, southeast of Decatur on the Piqua Road near the Indiana-Ohio line. It is in a field in a clump of trees.



According to some, there are no stones left in the burial grounds.
In 1980, Florence Gause's map of the cemetery stated there were once 25 stones, with a note that Williamson used the stones as disk weights.
In 1994, Ian Miller, who was working on his Eagle Scout award, took pictures and there were still stones standing.
In 2004, Mike Roop took pictures of the the abandoned cemetery.

In June 2010, a group of researchers were allowed access to the cemetery and found several stones, including little Johnny Troutner, whose stone had never been reported. Most of the photos are from 2010.

updated 4/13/2023

Roop or Carroll Cemetery
Last Name	First Name (Maiden)	Born	Died	Spouse -Marriage Date	Parents	Military	Documents
Carroll	Dorothy (Turner)	5/27/1921	11/14/2009	John - 7/12/1943	Lewis & Sigrid Larson Turner		obit
Carroll	John, Dr	4/25/1917	4/8/1981	Dorothy Turner - 7/12/1943	Clayson J & Leah Miller Carroll	US Army	death cert +
Dickey	William	2/6/1800	3/20/1876	Susannah Roop - 4/7/1825			obit +
Dutcher - Thatcher	Martha Ann	5/0/1839	9/9/1906	Mr Dutcher; John Thatcher – 1860			obit
Gause	Nancy Ann (Roop)	1839	bef. 1883	Martin VB Gause - 2/9/1860	Jacob & Nancy Lewis Roop		records
Lewis	Nathaniel	1796	4/21/1882		brother of Nancy Lewis Roop		obit +
Roop	Elizabeth (Thatcher)	12/10/1835	12/7/1858	Frederick S - 10/13/1853	John & Margaret P Troutner Thatcher		obit +
Roop	Frederick S	6/15/1827	3/10/1904	Elizabeth Thatcher - 1853; Margaret Ann Thatcher - 1859; Louise Allen - 1891	Jacob & Nancy Lewis Roop		obit +
Roop	Harriet B (Troutner) "Hattie"	9/6/1845	3/15/1877	Jacob C - 10/2/1864	Joseph & Sarah Weimer Troutner		obit +
Roop	Margaret A (Thatcher)	4/4/1842	5/27/1881	Frederick S - 9/29/1859	John & Margaret P Troutner Thatcher	died of typhoid fever; stone: died 5/26	records +
Roop - Thatcher	Nancy (Lewis)	1800	3/20/1872	Jacob Roop; John Thatcher - 1853			records
Thatcher	John	abt 1804		Margaret Troutner - 1823; Nancy Lewis Roop - 1853		Civil War Co F, 46th Ohio Inf	records +
Thatcher	Margaret P (Troutner)	abt 1804	7/7/1853	John - 5/5/1823			records +
Troutner	Johnny	1/4/1868	9/24/1868		George W & Catherine Avery Troutner		photo
Unknown		no dates	4 months, 11 days
White	Susannah (Thatcher)	2/21/1801	7/27/1854	Otho - 12/25/1819			record +

The following small stones only contain initials; they are probably foot stones.

M F or T
E R		photo
J R
L R
N R		photo
H R	small stone near Hattie Roop
J T		photo
T T	stone, no dates
S W
	2 bases with no stones

Illegible Stones

Many thanks to those intrepid ancestor hunters, Gayle & Ruthie Agler, Jane & Dean Edson (KS), Bobbi Harrison (WA), Karin King (MI), Larry Lautzenheiser, Margie Pearce (LA) and Janet Torson.

The Adams Co., Indiana INGenWeb genealogy web site is maintained by Margie Pearce and Jim Cox.


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