Demaree graveyard.
(Ayler Farm)

Milton Twp.
Sec. 23 Twp 4N Range 11E

by Robert W. Scott



John Paul DAR transcriptions in the 1940s say that this is the Ayler Farm. Jefferson Co. road maps in the 1990s do not show a cemetery in Section 23, which is downstream from Manville. Property maps suggest this cemetery was on the north side of the Indian-Kentuck in a thin sliver of property that borders Section 24 on the East. in the SE1/4. This sliver was owned by members of the Demaree family according to the 1876 Jefferson County plat map and 1900 property map, and by J. Ayler in a property map ca. 1927. The bulk of the Demaree and Ayler property was in the neighboring Section 24.

The dates and notes about the family below are all by the DAR Although transcription says Daniel Demaree's wife erected his gravestone, perhaps the reason she is buried in nearby in the Joyce Cem. is that the coupled separated according to a news item in a Madison paper in 1818.


(At one time there were many graves here.)

Sarah Demaree, w of Daniel, is buried near by in the Joyce graveyard
-died Jan. 20, 1891, age 97 years.
Daniel was the son of Samuel & Mary Brewer Cozine.



By Robert W. Scott

Jefferson County Cemetery List