Elias Boughman 1853-1938*
Simeon Boughman Died: December 22, 1937*
George E. Church 1848-1945*
Sam Collier 1871-1938
Laura Everhart Died: February 3, 1945*
Mabel Hoffman Died: October 29, 1941*
Thomas Knight Died: February 7, 1947*
James Kyle 1861-1941
Ed Large Died: March 24, 1940
Joe Smiley Died: November 20, 1938*
Lester Thomas 1890-1939*
Robert Vandusen 1864-1944
David R. Penn-(Colored) Died: November 7, 1900, buried Nov. 8, 1900
Squire Mails - Died January 16, 1904, burial January 17, 1904 Poor Farm Cemetery, per - Death Certificate
Edward Millspaugh - Died June 1, 1918, burial January 1, 1918 Poor Farm Cemetery, per - Death Certificate
Wright B. Deputy - July 17, 1845 - December 10, 1929 Poor Farm Cemetery, per - Death Certificate
Four graves marked only with numbers 1, 2, 3, 4
Tom Collins - date of entry - May 8, 1931, burial Poor Farm
Frank Jackson - date of entry - Nov. 4, 1933, no place of burial listed
John Mingous - date of entry - July 25, 1934, burial Poor Farm *
Margaret Ross - date of entry - July 13, 1933, burial Poor Farm
Velmore Spencer - died August 4, 1934, burial Sullivan Cemetery
Mitilda Woodbury - no dates or other notes
Jeptha Gahn - died June 10, 1953, burial Green Cemetery*
Comments on David R. Penn -[died of Genealogical Debility of many years Father-John
Mother-unknown - note states age 46 but according to the 1880 census he was
only 8 years old - this would have made him about 28] The note in brackets was written by Kenny Barber one of the people
who transcribed this Cemetery in 1973. I did a litte search and David R. Penn
was most likely the one he mentions from the 1880 census, he is listed in that
census with Epilepsy parents are shown as John & Lavena with a little more
work I found Lavena's maiden name was McCalfry (many spellings) as in the 1900
census her mother Mary McCalfry listed in the home as mother in law. I got
totally sidetracked following this family and found John who was born in 1835/38
was from Kentucky and Mary from Ohio. He was probably married before as some of
the children in the home were born in Canada before he and Mary were
married. I am sure there is a fascinating story here. It is possible he escaped
Kentucky and traveled to Canada some more children were born in Ohio so after
the war he might have come back to the States and went from Ohio where he met
the second wife then moved to Indiana where most of their children showing
in census records were born. I tracked some of the grandchildren as far as
Michigan where they are listed as of American Indian heritage in the census.
Is anyone out there researching this family?
I got an answer to the above question from Dr. G.C. Waldrip III - "They were part of the mixed-race Rickman-Mason-Goins-Lyles-Penn
settlement that existed from the 1840s through the 1920s in Bigger Twp. and in Butlerville. Yes, the grandchildren in Michigan later claimed
Native American status; there are also scattered Jennings Co. records that list them as "Indian"--as opposed to "Mulatto," the usual designation.
By 1920, most of these families had left the original area of settlement. Some moved to Vernon/North Vernon and integratd into the larger African
American community. Others wound up in Indianapolis, Ohio, Michigan, and/or Oklahoma. The last family to live in the old neighborhood was that of
John A. Goins (1887-1971) and his wife (and third cousin) Gladys Beatty (1901-66), who farmed his father's place into the 1920s before moving to
North Vernon. They are buried at Rush Branch."
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