Sunday,12 Jan 1879: Cairo Daily Bulletin
Messrs. Gerricke and Parks removed the bodies of John Warren, W. D. Hamlin, and Mrs. Annie Oakely's child from the yellow fever burying place, yesterday afternoon, and reburied them in the Lotus, better known as the "Seven Mile graveyard." The bodies of Houston Dickey and Samuel Nealey will be transferred to Beech Grove. This afternoon and the body of Mrs. Sherbian to Villa Ridge. The bodies of Coen, John Behohines and a party unknown, will be taken to the Seven Mile graveyard, tomorrow. This will leave but few bodies remaining.
Note : By 1921, Seven Mile cemetery was overgrown and unkempt. In 1955, the land was purchased and the cemetery was bulldozed over and turned into a pasture, a piece of history reduced to dust and memory.
Messrs. Gerricke and Parks removed the bodies of John Warren, W. D. Hamlin, and Mrs. Annie Oakely's child from the yellow fever burying place, yesterday afternoon, and reburied them in the Lotus, better known as the "Seven Mile graveyard." The bodies of Houston Dickey and Samuel Nealey will be transferred to Beech Grove. This afternoon and the body of Mrs. Sherbian to Villa Ridge. The bodies of Coen, John Behohines and a party unknown, will be taken to the Seven Mile graveyard, tomorrow. This will leave but few bodies remaining.
Note : By 1921, Seven Mile cemetery was overgrown and unkempt. In 1955, the land was purchased and the cemetery was bulldozed over and turned into a pasture, a piece of history reduced to dust and memory.
Sunday,12 Jan 1879: Cairo Daily Bulletin
Messrs. Gerricke and Parks removed the bodies of John Warren, W. D. Hamlin, and Mrs. Annie Oakely's child from the yellow fever burying place, yesterday afternoon, and reburied them in the Lotus, better known as the "Seven Mile graveyard." The bodies of Houston Dickey and Samuel Nealey will be transferred to Beech Grove. This afternoon and the body of Mrs. Sherbian to Villa Ridge. The bodies of Coen, John Behohines and a party unknown, will be taken to the Seven Mile graveyard, tomorrow. This will leave but few bodies remaining.
Note : By 1921, Seven Mile cemetery was overgrown and unkempt. In 1955, the land was purchased and the cemetery was bulldozed over and turned into a pasture, a piece of history reduced to dust and memory.
Messrs. Gerricke and Parks removed the bodies of John Warren, W. D. Hamlin, and Mrs. Annie Oakely's child from the yellow fever burying place, yesterday afternoon, and reburied them in the Lotus, better known as the "Seven Mile graveyard." The bodies of Houston Dickey and Samuel Nealey will be transferred to Beech Grove. This afternoon and the body of Mrs. Sherbian to Villa Ridge. The bodies of Coen, John Behohines and a party unknown, will be taken to the Seven Mile graveyard, tomorrow. This will leave but few bodies remaining.
Note : By 1921, Seven Mile cemetery was overgrown and unkempt. In 1955, the land was purchased and the cemetery was bulldozed over and turned into a pasture, a piece of history reduced to dust and memory.
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