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Index of Old Mount Tabor Cemetery, Adams County, Indiana

Submitted by Lynn Sewell; Reformatted by Karin King

Read by Jim Cox & Penny B. North - October 2010

Old Mount Tabor Cemetery is off Piqua Road in St. Mary’s Township, about one mile southwest of Rivarre (Bobo). This cemetery (which is across the road from the New Mount Tabor Cemetery) is in very bad condition. An article by Richard Marland in the Decatur Daily Democrat says: "It is said all those people died at one time of cholera. There was an epidemic of cholera in Willshire, Ohio and the surrounding territory in 1848 and another in 1854. Only 7 survived the 1854 period."

Note: This copy was given to me in 1994, by my cousin, Frances Newby.

These are the families buried here: [some of this is typed and some is written in ink]	
Six Indians	Cowan-2	Griffith-2	Major-1	Shaffer-3		
Acker-4	Daniel-6	Gulick-9 	Martin-1	Shepard-2		
Bailey-1	Debolt-1	Harrison-6	McClellen-1	Smith-7		
Bunner-2	Dewvese-2	Hawk-2	Miller-1	Strickler-1		
Carpenter-1	Forurtney-1	Heath-1	Mitchell-1	Teeple-3		
Cortney-1	Franklin-1	Hull-3	Platt-1	Wade-1		
Counterman-1	Gilpin-1	Jackson-4	Schnerr-1	Winans-1		
		Lee-5				
						
[this part was obviously done at a later time-written in ink-not typed and at the bottom of the 2nd page]
Years of death						
45-1	59-1	66-3	74-1	83-1		
46-1	60-1	67-1	75-1	86-1		
51-5	61-5	68-1	78-1	87-1		
54-2	62-4	70-1	79-1	90-3		
55-2	63-9	71-5	81-3	96-1		
57-5	64-4	72-2	82-1	98-1		
58-1	65-2	73-5		86 total 		
						
[written in ink at bottom of 3rd page] 				
Female infants - 4		Male infants – 5	Mother or wife - 25			
Daughter - 21		Son - 16	Father - 13	Total            34		

ABBREVIATIONS USED:
ch/o = child of
d/o = daughter of
h/o = husband of
s/o = son of
w/o = wife of

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