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Patoka Cemetery
French Lick, Orange Co IN
Photo by Ardie Colburn (Find-A-Grave)
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Located at the point of intersection section 13 and 24 of Jackson Township and 18 and 19 of Greenfield Township in Orange County, IN. Patoka Primitive Baptist Church, known locally as Cork's Chapel, was built in 1899 near an old public burying ground overlooking the Patoka River Valley near the site of the old "Government Mill", which was operated by Thomas and Samuel Parks about 1848. When Patoka Lake was created in the middle 1900's, a number of cemeteries that would be covered by the lake were moved to this location and the cemetery was renamed Patoka Memorial Cemetery.
Here is a partial list of cemeteries and burial sites that were moved to Patoka Memorial Cemetery:
Atkins Family
Carroll Family
Cox Family Graves
Dewitt Family
Ellsworth Family
Elon
Fleming Family
Gilliatt Family
Grave of Morris M. Hubbs
Grave of Jewell Jackson
Grave of Ralph Kalb
Grave of Rachel Irene Parks
Grave of George T. Zehr
Graves on Foster and North Places
Kesterson Family
Hillsboro
Roberts M.E. Church
Sinclair Family
Thompson Graves
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Pvt. Alfred Kesterson 1841 - Death: Oct. 8, 1862
Son of Jonathan (1818-1878) and Mary Ann Painter (1821-1897);
siblings: Benjamin (1843-1862; served in 49TH IND INF), Margaret (b. Dec. 27, 1844),
Samuel (1847-1862; same company), Nancy (b. April 16, 1850), John (b. 1851), James (b. 1852), Mary (b. June 4, 1856), William (b. 10 April 1864), and Vista (b. 1866); resident of Columbia Twp., Dubois Co., IN in 1850; married Miss Mary Elizabeth Beatty (1840-1923) on Sept. 13, 1860 in Dubois Co., IN; children: Eliza Jane (b. Nov. 21, 1861), and Jubitta (b. 1863); enlisted in Co. I, 38TH IND INF on Oct. 4, 1861; killed in action at the Battle of Perryville, KY on Oct. 8, 1862; his grave was located on the battlefield by his father, who brought Alfred and his brother Samuel (who was killed on the same day) home for burial in the Robert Hall Farm Cemetery in DuBois County, Indiana; grave moved to Patoka Memorial Gardens in the 1970s
Photo by Traie Shelhart - Find-A-Grave
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Pvt. Samuel Kesterson
Son of Jonathan (1818-1878) and Mary Painter (1821-1897); siblings: Alfred (1841-1862; same company), Benjamin (1843-1862; served in 49TH IND INF), Margaret (b. Dec. 27, 1844), Nancy (b. April 16, 1850), John (b. 1851), James (b. 1852), Mary (b. June 4, 1856), William (b. 10 April 1864), and Vista (b. 1866); enlisted in Co. I, 38TH IND INF on Oct. 4, 1861; killed in action at the Battle of Perryville, Oct. 8, 1862; his grave was located on the battlefield by his father, who brought Samuel and his brother Alfred home for burial in the Robert Hall Farm Cemetery in DuBois County, Indiana; grave moved to Patoka Memorial Gardens in the 1970s
Photo by Traie Shelhart - Find-A-Grave
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