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Hoyt Graveyard

  1941 D.A.R. Notes:


     A stone wall surrounds some graves on the O'Neal farm,
  just south of Dupont. No stones. According to the O'Neals,
  a Mr. Hoyt is buried there. He invented something which had
  to do with engines.

  Madison Courier, March 17 1851:

      "A Mr. Williams Hoyt of Indiana says he has invented a plan
  by which music of softest and most pathetic character may be
  produced on steamboats by agency of steam. It appears that the
  steam is made to operate upon a number of pipes, placed across
  the boilers of the boat, furnished with certain whistles governed
  by a set of keys by which steam is let on, or shut off at will.
     "Our Dupont neighbor is destined to make noise in this world."


  Madison Courier, June 14 1848:

      "William Hoyt's invention of plan for taking cars up the plane."
  See also Courier of July 5, 1848.