Poor Farm aka Old Folks Home or Alm's House
 Cemetery
nearest roads, 450 South, State Hwy 7-210 East
many unmarked graves-some graves are numbered and the numbers which correspond to numbers in a grave ledger for the old poor farm. I am going to see if I can get information from that ledger.

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, 1941

Joe Smiley   Died:  November 20, 1938

Lester Thomas   1890-1939

Robert Vandusen   1864-1944 

Four graves marked only with numbers    1, 2, 3, 4

David R. Penn-(Colored)  Died:  November 7, 1900,  buried Nov. 8, 1900-[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 six 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?


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