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Jefferson County: Hansell Graveyard, Graham Twp

Fri, 11/21/2008 - 12:58pm — Ruth Hoggatt

Hansell's Farm

Graham Township, Jefferson County, Indiana
Section 18 T4N R8E

1941 D.A.R. Cemetery Survey.
Transcription by Ruth Hoggatt
History by Robert Scott, copyright August 2001.

Carmel or Mt. Carmel Methodist. The 1941 John Paul DAR cemetery transcriptions lists this cemetery as being on Hansell’s farm, but notes, “there was a Methodist church here at one time, called Mt. Carmel, later moved to Mt. Gilead, Scott Co.” This appears to have been the church involved when on Dec. 28 ,1854, William and Selena Tool (Jool?) sold an acre in the SW1/4 Sec.18 Twp. 4N Range 8E (starting at the SW corner) to the Methodist trustees for $1. (Jefferson County Deed Book 11 p. 238.) The trustees were Samuel G. Franston (?), John Gudgel, Daniel Whitsett, Ralph Whitset, and Wesley Stewart. Several Whitsetts and Stewarts are buried in the cemetery, so it seems likely that the land sold in 1854 was for this church. 


Arbuckle, Sarah A., w/o Jas. Arbuckle, May 12, 1821 - Jan 21 1861

Knowlton, James H., s/o J.J. & M.E. Knowlton, died 1865
Knowlton, Eliza E., d/o J.J. & M.E. Knowlton, no dates

Lapp, Eliza Whitsett, 1859 - 1936

Steward, Eliza F., w/o Jas. H. Steward, d. May 14, 1880, age 30 yrs
Steward, Stephen G., Dec 12, 1844 - May 19, 1869
Steward, Sarah E., d/o J. & S. Steward, 1857 - 1874
Steward, Sarah, w/o J. Stewart, Dec 30, 1818- Mar 15, 1887
Steward, Margaret A., w/o J. Steward, Oct 30, 1839 - Oct 2, 1881

Whitsett, Rebecca, Mar 10, 1776 - Jan 17, 1855
Whitsett, William, Sr., May 6, 1767 - May 9, 1854, age 87 yrs.
Whitsett, Maria C., w/o A.H. Whitsett, Jan 1, 1824 - _____
Whitsett, Allen H., Jan 12, 1827 - Oct 26, 1892
Whitsett, Mary J., w/o Allen H. Whitsett, d. Mar 23, 1858, age 29 yrs.