Genealogy

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Cemetery Records with photographs of headstones.

David Smith Cemetery

(aka Bethel Cemetery)

Montgomery Township

Gibson County, Indiana

Coordinates:	Latitude, 38.3026 N;  Longitude, -87.6606 W
Congressional Location:	NE-1/4; NW-1/4; SECTION 32; TOWNSHIP 2S; RANGE 11W
Common Directions:	Located adjacent to the north side of the Old Owensville-Princeton Road, about 3/10 mile northeast of the intersection with County Road 525W; 2.5 miles northeast of Owensville.
Last updated	Nov 2023

The following list is a sincere attempt to show all known graves using several different sources and periodically updated headstone photographs. There may be other graves which are unknown/unlisted due to missing, unreadable, destroyed, or broken markers.

If you have knowledge of any other graves which may not be shown here, or of any incorrect information whatsoever, I would be grateful for your assistance. Drop me an email and let me know. Please avoid however, notifying me of very recent burials that do not appear here. I will capture and incorporate these on the next scheduled cemetery update.

George Pickersgill

Surname	Given Name	Birth Date	Death Date	Inscriptions & Notes	Photo # Photo	Sect-ion	Row
Shafer	James L	26 Jul 1891	11 Sep 1900	Son of Simon L & Sarah E SHAFER.	4734	East	3
Shafer	John S	1873	1948	Husband of Sirrilla SHAFER.	4729	East	2
Shafer	Sarah E	10 May 1866	6 Apr 1900	Wife of Simon SHAFER. “Mother”	4732	East	3
Shafer	Simon L	12 May 1865	22 Dec 1942	Husband of Sarah E SHAFER.	4733	East	3
Shafer	Sirrilla	1870	1925	Wife of John S SHAFER.	4729	East	2
Smith	America B	21 Jul 1890	28 Apr 1892	Daughter of Henry W & Matilda J (MAUCK) SMITH.	5016	West	15
Smith	B F	19 Jun 1831	12 Apr 1902	70 YS. 9 MS. 26 DS.  Civil War. Died at Garden City, Kansas	4927 4928	West	12
Smith	David	1801	16 Mar 1882	Husband of Eliza SMITH. Aged 81 YR’S.	4976	West	14
Smith	Earl R	1893	1974	Second husband of Elva F (ARMSTRONG) SPORE SMITH. Married 28 Jun 1917. Son of Henry W & Matilda J (MAUCK) SMITH.	5014	West	15
Smith	Eliza	22 Nov 1802	28 May 1878	Wife of David SMITH. Aged 69 Yrs. 6 Mos. 6 Yrs.	4978	West	14
Smith	Elizabeth J	--	27 Nov 1869	First wife of John M SMITH. Aged 29 YS. 7 MS. 2 D.	4924 (Row 12) 4968 (Row 13)	West	12 13
Smith	Elnora	--	21 Sep 1875	Infant daughter of John M & Mary L SMITH. Aged 1 YR. 10 MS. 26 D.	4927 (Row 12) 4966 (Row 13)	West	12 13
Smith	Elva F	1889	1952	nee ARMSTRONG. Wife of William Orville SPORE, 1st, married 15 Nov 1911; and Earl R SMITH, 2nd, married 28 Jun 1917. Daughter of James H & Lela (BINGHAM) ARMSTRONG. (Note:   Corrected information courtesy of Gerald L SPORE, 5  Jan 2010.)	5014	West	15
Smith	Erma T	1892	1986	nee TICHENOR. Wife of M Byrd SMITH. Married 10 Mar 1915. Daughter of W & Elizabeth TICHENOR.	5002	West	15
Smith	Henry W	18 Jan 1859	17 Feb 1943	Husband of Matilda J (MAUCK) SMITH. Married 27 Oct 1881. “Father”	5017	West	15
Smith	James	12 Nov 1833	23 Apr 1869	Aged 34 ys 5 ms 11 ds.	4980	West	14
Smith	James	1754	1837	Husband of Margaret (TRUAX) SMITH Father of John, James, Andrew, Isaac, David, Polly, Betsy, Jane, Lidia, and Ann SMITH 12 VA Regt., CPT Bowyer's Company, Revolutionary War. (Information provided by the General John Gibson Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution)	4981	West	14
Smith	James A	12 Sep 1849	15 Feb 1925	Husband of Lydia (MAUCK) SMITH. Married 22 May 1877.	4960 4964	West	13
Smith	John M	1 Sep 1827	23 Feb 1908	Husband of Elizabeth J SMITH.	4924 (Row 12) 4969 (Row 13)	West	12
Smith	Louella Stone	29 Jan 1864	3 Feb 1941	nee STONE. Wife of William Henry SMITH. Married 20 Sep 1883. “Mother”	4789	East	6
Smith	Lydia	5 Mar 1855	29 Aug 1922	nee MAUCK. Wife of James A SMITH. Married 22 Mar 1877.	4960 4963	West	13
Smith	M Byrd	1892	1975	Husband of Erma T (TICHENOR) SMITH. Married 10 May 1915. Son of James & Lydia SMITH.	5002	West	15
Smith	Manoah	7 Dec 1852	23 Jul 1906	Husband of Martha W (EMMERSON) SMITH. Married 5 Mar 1876.	4890	West	11
Smith	Martha W	6 Dec 1855	15 Nov 1950	nee EMMERSON. Wife of Manoah SMITH. Married 5 Mar 1876.	4890	West	11
Smith	Mary L	--	9 Jun 1887	Second wife of John M SMITH. Aged 56 YS 6 MS. 23 D.	4924 (Row 12) 4965 (Row 13)	West	12
Smith	Matilda J	12 Jan 1860	14 Nov 1944	nee MAUCK, Wife of Henry W SMITH. Married 27 Oct 1881. “Mother”	5017	West	15
Smith	Milton B	30 Aug 1856	17 Jan 1870	Son of John M & Elizabeth J SMITH. Aged 13 YS 4 MS. 18 D.	4926 (Row 12) 4967 (Row 13)	West	12 13
Smith	Roy	1 Apr 1888	21 Aug 1908	Son of James A & Lydia SMITH. Drowned in the Wabash River	4961 4962 From the Princeton Clarion, 22 Aug 1908	West	13
Smith	William Henry	27 Dec 1861	15 Apr 1957	Husband of Louell (STONE) SMITH. Married 20 Sep 1883. “Father”	4789	East	6
Smothers	Lucretia	9 Mar 1882	23 Dec 1908	nee KENEIPP. Wife of Henry A Smothers. Married 8 Aug 1907. Daughter of George & Catharine H “Kittie” KENEIPP.	4715 4716	East	1
Speer	Fannie Lake	1882	1964	nee KNOWLES. Wife of Oliver M SPEER. Married 14 Oct 1909. Daughter of William B & Eliza Jane (SMITH) KNOWLES.	4970	West	13
Speer	Oliver Martin	1882	1959	Husband of Fannie Lake (KNOWLES) SPEER. Married 14 Oct 1909. Son of John & Drucilla SPEER.	4970	West	13
Speer	Paul M, Jr.	7 Mar 1958	1 Sep 1958	Infant son of Paul M “Dutch” SPEER, Sr.	5049 5050	West	17
Speer	Paul M, Sr. “Dutch”	22 Dec 1917	2 Jan 1998	Husband of Virginia (COOMER) FARO SPEER. Cpl., US Army Air Corps, WW II.	5047 5051	West	17
Speer	Virginia Faro	24 Jul 1920	22 Feb 1992	nee COOMER. Wife of FARO, 1^st and Paul M, “Dutch” SPEER, Sr., 2^nd.	5047	West	17
Spore	Comfort	16 Nov 1822	13 Feb 1884	nee KNOWLES. Wife of Jacob SPORE. Married 24 Mar 1845. “She professed religion in 1839, and joined the Cumberland Presbyterain (sic) Church the same year. Was married to Jacob Spore in the year 1845”	4929	West	12
Spore	Jacob	--	30 Apr 1904	Husband of Comfort (KNOWLES) SPORE, 1st, married 24 Mar 1845; and Rachael (CRARY) CLARK SPORE, 2nd, married 24 Nov 1877. Aged 89 or 90 years. (NOTE:  The following courtesy of Gerald L Spore, 5 Jan 2010:  "While Comfort's stone alludes to her marriage to Jacob Spore in 1845, there is no carving of his birth/death.  In 1986, Tri-State Gen. Soc. (Evansville), published Holder Funeral Home burials, and included Jacob Spore's 1904 death and burial at Bethel.  After Comfort's death, Jacob had married Rachel Crary Clark (buried Clark Cem.), who outlived him.  When he died in 1904, nobody had the dates carved on Comfort's stone, possible because there was no place to carve them!  (They should have gone to the other side of the monument.)")	Jacob Spore 4929	West	12
Spore	Jacob Otto	--	13 May 1887	Son of Rhesa K & Lucinda E (FRAVEL) SPORE. Aged 10 mos. 21 d. (NOTE:  The above courtesy of Gerald L Spore, 5 Jan 2010:  "The only person with the middle name Otto is the baby son of Rhesa K. Spore and Lucinda E. Fravel.  Jacob & Comfort were the baby's grandparents,..")	4931	West	12
Spore	Lucinda Ellen	1861	28 Jan 1922	nee FRAVEL. Wife of Rhesa K SPORE. Married 26 Feb 1885. (Click here to view obituary.)	4873	West	10
Spore	Rhesa K	1861	1947	Husband of Lucinda E (FRAVEL) SPORE. Married 26 Feb 1885.	4873	West	10
Spore	William Orville	8 Aug 1889	12 Aug 1913	First husband of Elva F (ARMSTRONG) SPORE SMITH, married 15 Nov 1911. (Note:  Information courtesy of Gerald L SPORE, 5 Jan 2010.) (Click here to view obituary.)	4750	East	4
Stone	Emma F	1859	1945	nee YEAGER. Wife of Samuel H STONE. Married 21 Sep 1888.	4790	East	6
Stone	Ephraim A	1863	1938	--	4798	East	7
Stone	Fannie E	1866	1900	nee MASSEY. Wife of Perry Lee STONE. Married 16 Oct 1887.	4891	West	11
Stone	George	26 Aug 1868	19 Dec 1904	--	4816	East	7
Stone	Jesse B	1900	1979	“Father”	4815	East	7
Stone	John M	--	10 Jul 1888	Husband of Thelda J (SUMNERS) STONE. Married 9 Jul 1882. Aged 26 YS. 2 MS. 7 DS.	4893 4898 4897	West	11
Stone	John O	27 Nov 1859	8 Sep 1923	Husband of Louella F STONE.	4813	East	7
Stone	Letha O	29 Mar 1896	29 Oct 1899	Daughter of John O & Louella STONE.	4814	East	7
Stone	Louella F	18 Sep 1862	27 Feb 1942	Wife of John O STONE.	4813	East	7
Stone	Lowell E	1897	1899	--	4892	West	11
Stone	Martha	1906	1991	Wife of Ray STONE.	4818	East	7
Stone	Perry Lee	1866	1899	Husband of Fannie E (MASSEY) STONE. Married 16 Oct 1887.	4891	West	11
Stone	Ray	1897	1968	Husband of Martha STONE.	4818	East	7
Stone	Samuel H	1858	1935	Husband of Emma F (YEAGER) STONE. Married 21 Sep 1888.	4790	East	6
Stone	Thelda J	--	5 Nov 1886	nee SUMNERS. Wife of John M STONE. Married 9 Jul 1882. Aged 23 YS. 4 MS. 2 DS.	4895 4898 4896	West	11

Section and Row definitions. 

There is a center lane extending from the entrance gate, which divides the cemetery into east and west sections.  Rows were numbered beginning on the east side of the cemetery.

4709  View from the entrance gate of the west side of the cemetery.	4708  View from the entrance gate of the east side of the cemetery.
4881  View of west section from bottom of the hill.	4782  View of the east section from the bottom of the hill.