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Jefferson County: Shiloh Cemetery, Smyrna Twp

Wed, 12/03/2008 - 1:09am — Ruth Hoggatt

Shiloh Cemetery

Smyrna Township, Jefferson County, Indiana
Section 14, Town 4 North, Range 9 East.

Longitude 85° 31.033'    Latitude 38° 47.328'


On Deputy farm, north of Volga

Burial Survey by Ruth Hoggatt & Bill Ford.
Photos by Brad Hoggatt. © Sep 2002.

History by Robert W. Scott, © August 2001.

Shiloh Methodist. This church dates from at least the early 1820s. A biographical sketch of Nicholas Gasaway states that he was converted when he was 17 "under the ministry of Rev. James Armstrong, at Shiloh, on Kent Circuit." Since the same sketch gives his birth date as 1806, the conversion was ca. 1823. The earliest formal record occurs on March 8, 1841 when John and Lavinia Duffey sold a lot to the trustees on $1. The land was in the NE1/4 Sec. 20 Twp. 4N Range 9E. The trustees were Elisha Bassett, Abraham Shrouders (?), Nicholas Gasaway, Nathan Gasaway, and William Duffy. The name of the church is not given on the deed. The congregation apparently moved because on Oct. 2, 1852, Nathan and Amanda Gasaway sold land in the NW1/4 Sec. 15 Twp. 4N Range 9E for $50 in order to erect a Methodist Church. The trustees were William Duffy, John Duffey, Nicholas Gasaway, Nathan Gasaway, and William Officer. The record states these men were named in an election on 1 Oct. 1852 from Shiloh in Smyrna (Jefferson County Mortgage Book 4 p. 217) 

Deputy, John, 19 Dec 1817 - 30 Mar 1879 [ss - Harriet]
Deputy, Harriet, 22 Apr 1823 - 10 May 1893 [ss - John]
Deputy, Octavius, 19 Jul 1846 - 27 May 1935 [ss - Juliet]
Deputy, Juliet Rushton, his wife,  31 May 1854 - 15 May 1920 [ss - Octavius]
Deputy, Dale R., 24 Jan 1889 - 13 Mar 1889
  [First name difficult to read. Best guess.]
Deputy, Harry B., 21 Jul 1881 - 24 Nov 1939
Deputy, Flora, 11 May 1862 - 3 May 1938
Deputy, Norma Jean, 20 Sep 1927 - 28 Sep 1999 [ss - Charles]
Deputy, Charles Irving, 17 Oct 1925 - 22 Apr 1983 [ss - Norma]

Dixon, Nancy An., consort of M.R., 22 Jul 1832 - 1 Sep 1855 [fs - NAD]

Dodd, Joseph S., 9 Nov 1818 - 1 May 1879
Dodd, Joseph S., 10 Jun 1825 - 30 Mar 1908
  [Stone wall around Dodd graves]

Duffy, Melvin G., 31 Jan 1845 - 11 May 1886, aged 41y 3m 10d
  [Masonic emblem & IOOF]
Duffy, Eddie, s/o M.G. & S., 18 Jan 1867 - 25 Jan 1867
  [Tombstone made: Osgood, Ind.]
Duffy, John, 16 Apr 1802 - 28 Feb 1887
  [Stone broken off at base]
Duffy, Lovena, w/o John, d. 6 Mar 1869, age 66y 10m 3d
Duffy, Mary C., d/o J. & L., d. 3 Aug 1857, age 17y 11m 8 d
Duffy, John T., s/o J. & L., d. 21 May 1857, age 20 yrs 7m 4d
  [Stone broken]
Duffy, William M., s/o J. & L., d. 15 Sep 1852 [Unable to read age]
  [Death year broken off]
Duffy, John C., 8 Nov 1870 - 24 Apr 1908
Duffy, Graham, 1874 - 1945

Fewell, Alex, d.  __ Oct ____, age 53 yrs  [Per DAR. Stone not found.]
Fewell, J.A.,  Co. G, 40th Ind. Inf.

Gasaway, Elizabeth J., w/o N., 22 Feb 1812 - 12 Nov 1883 [Image]
  [Birth yr. may be 1817. Stone shaped like a tree trunk, abt. 7']
Gasaway, Nicholas, 1 Nov 1808 - 7 Apr 1879
  [Inscription per DAR. Stone is shaped like a tree trunk. It has
  fallen over and is embedded in the ground, with the inscription
  on the underside. Too heavy to lift.]
Gasaway, Martha C., daut. of N. & E., 11 Aug 1836 - 12 Aug 1854
  [Stone is laying flat and embedded in ground, base buried.]

Grooms, Elijah T., s/o Wm M. & Mary, 16 Nov 1810 - Jan 1863 [ss - William]
  [Stone is broken & difficult to read. Dates per DAR.
  Appears to be 16 Nov 1840 - 21 Jan 1863]
Grooms, William M., d. 1 Jan 1861, aged 63 yrs [ss - Elijah]
  [Date per DAR. May have died 1864.]
 
Litson, Ann, 1803 - 1888 [ss - Fannie]
Litson, Fannie, her daut, 1833 - 1888 [ss - Ann]

McCasland, Walter A., s/o C. & R., d. 1859, age 20y, 10m 9d
  [Stone is broken]

Officer, Mattie A., 20 Jan 1871 - 1 Feb 1945 [ss - Bettie]
Officer, Bettie J., 1 Apr 1873 - 27 Mar 1952 [ss - Mattie]

Rutledge, Sarah A., 12 Dec 1876 - 15 Jan 1885
Rutledge, Infant d/o F. M. and M.B., 10 Mar 1887

Thompson, Harriet C., w/o G.W. & d/o N. & E. Gasway, 22 Oct 1839 - 20 Jun 1872
  [Stone is broken]
Thompson, Johnnie N., s/o G.W. & Harriet C., 9 Mar 1872 - 27 Jun 1872

Torrey, Clara M., d/o J.M. & O.C., 23 Feb 1861 - 22 May 1862

Wallace, John G., "Jack" 1928 - 1997 [ss - Mildred]
Wallace, Mildred L., "Mil" 1934 - ____ [ss - John]

Wells, George H., s/o S.E. & M., d. 10 Aug 1858, age 6 Mo. & 10 Ds.