Cemeteries-Madison-Co-In.com
Title
Pioneer Cemeteries and Their Stories - Madison Co., IN
Description
Excerpted from the website:
- We invite you to browse through our pages--to take a walk, as it were, through our pioneer cemeteries, tour our Hoosier past, and meet our early settlers who did the hard work of making a community out of the wilderness.
- We might suggest that you meet an unassuming national hero of the War of 1812, the veteran who was killed with a tomahawk at the Strawtown Massacre, the twelve Revolutionary War soldiers buried in our county, descendents of a Mayflower pilgrim, a sweetheart of Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley, a friend of Daniel Boone, the protector of famous African-American Frederick Douglass, a Hancock whose ancestors escaped from hostile tribes, a responsible pioneer bartender, the very first mid-wife in the county, the rafts man who delivered the lumber for the first court house in Indianapolis, a merchant who supplied pork to Cuba, another who sold bear skins and beeswax, a postmaster who carried the mail in his hat, a strong man who could split 500 rails a day, an Anderson mayor who had a story about a raccoon, the justice of the peace who wrote everything in verse, the farmer who walked his hogs from Chesterfield to Cincinnati, the settler with the earliest birth date, 1748 (!), the wealthiest businessman, the family who were traveling to Illinois when an ox died, or the son that helped preserve the area that is now Mounds State Park. Madison County has a lot of history to learn from and be proud of including the only instance during the 19th century that an United States court of law held whites strictly accountable for killing innocent Native Americans.
Languages
English
Address
- 110 E. 700 N
- Alexandria IN 46001 US
Contact
- M.C.C.C.
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- +1 765 644 3904, Fax: +1 765 641 1205
