On June 3, 1999, Jimmy Keith, Charlestown
Township Trustee, advised that he had been working for some time cleaning
up a cemetery on Tunnel Mill Road (but NOT on the Boy Scout Reservation)
and that the project was nearing completion. He reported the following
19th Century gravemarkers:
Rev. _______ Hammond
Lloyd
Fletcher
The rumor is that this Rev. Hammond is the man who performed a marriage ceremony for Indiana's first Governor, Jonathan Jennings. The Indiana State Library's pre-1850 marriage database says Jonathan Jennings married Anny G. Hay in Clark County, IN on 8-8-1811 and he or another Jonathan Jennings married Clarissa Barbee in Clark Co. on 10-17-1827. (I don't know if the Governor was married more than once or not.)
There are a number of small stones
found here (sounds to me like they are probably footstones), bearing only
initials -- LAH, FH, CJH, YH, JGR, etc.
Luanne Stahly <lpstahly@thepoint.net> visited the site on April 6, 2003. She agrees this should be referred to as "Hammond Cemetery" and provided the following listing of stones found during her visit:
Rev. Rezin Hammond; born in Fredrick Co, Maryland on April 15,1788; died in Charlestown, Indiana on Nov. 5, 1871.Ann T. Hammond, wife of Rev. R. Hammond; born in Harrisonburg, Virginia on September 16, 1794; died in Charlestown, Indiana on March 24, 1878.
Rev. and Mrs. Hammond's stone bears the following inscription:Also buried here are the following children of Rezin & Ann T. Hammond (all of these footstones are in a row):Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord
For of such is the Kingdon of Heaven.Lloyd A. Hammond (footstone found: "LAH")Footstone found with different shape than those above, bearing the initials: "JGR"
Fletcher Hammond (footstone found: "FH")
Cinthia J. Hammond (footstone found: "CJH")
Margaret J. Hammond (footstone found: "MJH")
Samual Hammond (footstone found: "SH")
Vachel Hammond (footstone found: "VH")
The 1860 Clark County Census lists:
HAMMOND, Rezin 72 MD - Ann 66 VA - Thomas C. 32 - Ann T. 13 Charlestown Township, Household #9
. . . .I presently have no further information on this cemetery. Further information may be available from:
Jeffersonville Twp. Library or Charlestown Twp. Library 211 East Court Avenue 51 Clark Road Jeffersonville, Indiana 47130 Charlestown, Indiana 47111 Telephone: (812) 285-5635 Telephone: (812) 256-3337
New Albany-Floyd County Library or Sellersburg Twp. Library 180 West Spring Street 430 North Indiana Avenue New Albany, Indiana 47150 Sellersburg, Indiana 47172 Telephone: (812) 949-3527 Telephone: (812) 246-4493
E-mail: Dee Pavey
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