Farmer Cemetery
Also known as Farmer-Watson-Stanley Cemetery , Stanley Cemetery #1 , Watson Cemetery
Washington Township, Carroll County, Indiana, USA
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Washington Township, Indiana, 46917 USACoordinates: 40.65968, -86.44506 - Cemetery ID:
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Add PhotosLevi Farmer Sr. (1790-1854) was the original homesteader of the property on which the cemetery is located. The land was sold to him by the United States and signed by President Andrew Jackson and he was the third settler of Washington Township in October 1829 according to The History of Carroll County Indiana 1882. This cemetery was one of the earliest in Carroll County, with the oldest tombstone engraved December 1834 for the death of a 4 month old baby, and the most recent stone dated 1902. However, newspaper obituaries state that there were burials there as late as 1924, but no stones have yet been found. The cemetery is in a small woods in the middle of a corn field, requiring a 1/4 mile hike and crossing a small stream. If youlook closely you can see one of only two tombstones upright,the rest are flat on the ground.
Indiana Cemetery Locations, Volume 2, published by the Indiana Genealogical Society (01 April 2006), gives the primary cemetery name as Watson Cemetery with alternate names of Farmer Cemetery and Stanley Cemetery #1.
The cemetery is listed in the Cemetery and Burial Grounds Registry of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and in the State Historical Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD) with Cemetery Record Number CR-08-96 (Watson / Stanley).
Levi Farmer Sr. (1790-1854) was the original homesteader of the property on which the cemetery is located. The land was sold to him by the United States and signed by President Andrew Jackson and he was the third settler of Washington Township in October 1829 according to The History of Carroll County Indiana 1882. This cemetery was one of the earliest in Carroll County, with the oldest tombstone engraved December 1834 for the death of a 4 month old baby, and the most recent stone dated 1902. However, newspaper obituaries state that there were burials there as late as 1924, but no stones have yet been found. The cemetery is in a small woods in the middle of a corn field, requiring a 1/4 mile hike and crossing a small stream. If youlook closely you can see one of only two tombstones upright,the rest are flat on the ground.
Indiana Cemetery Locations, Volume 2, published by the Indiana Genealogical Society (01 April 2006), gives the primary cemetery name as Watson Cemetery with alternate names of Farmer Cemetery and Stanley Cemetery #1.
The cemetery is listed in the Cemetery and Burial Grounds Registry of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and in the State Historical Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD) with Cemetery Record Number CR-08-96 (Watson / Stanley).
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- Added: 27 Oct 2012
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2470973
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