Hough Cemetery
Sugar Creek Township,  Shelby county, Indiana
near Red Mills, north of Boggstown, close to Shelbyville.

Newly Updated! New Information was added on March 30th - 31st, 2003

This old cemetery is apparently no longer cared for and is among the many thousands in this country, of those which are now abandoned and forgotten burials. Efforts should be made to preserve these old cemeteries. Many of these stones are now in terrible shape, worn away by the elements and some cracked , chipped and broken, so that the names and dates can no longer be read. Much thanks of appreciation for those who recorded the information years ago before the information was lost for all time, as we can now identify at least some of these people whose names and dates are now extant from their Grave Stones. It is a testimonial to the importance of recording and keeping ALL cemetery records. We owe a debt of much gratitude to those who silently, and often anonymously, work to find and record genealogical information. In all kinds of weather, they trek through old forgotten cemeteries, recording the names and inscriptions of the dead for future generations, lest we & our loved ones become numbered among the throngs of the forgotten.. - t.a.d. 2003

[This record includes GIRD Family Burials]

BARNGROVER

• EDWARD (BARNGROVER), son of James & Elizabeth (nee Gird) BARNGROVER, died Jan. 22, 1839, aged 10 mos.
   
• JOHN (BARNGROVER), son of James & Elizabeth (nee Gird) BARNGROVER, died Aug. 20, 1844, aged 3 yrs
   
• SALLY (BARNGROVER), dau of James & Elizabeth (nee Gird) BARNGROVER, died Feb. 12, 1839, aged 17 yrs.
  (James Barngrover & Elizabeth Gird married Feb. 17, 1834 in Shelby Co., Indiana.)
  
  NOTE* (CONFLICTING INFORMATION as to which SALLY in the family, this girl was- see GIRD family Burials in this list below, for this same Sally listed as SALLY GIRD)- I do believe, however, that this girl was a BARNGROVER, because of her age. Sally Gird was born Abt. 1818, which would have made her about ten years older than this girl in 1839 - (t.a.d. 2003).
   

CARTER

•  SARAH CATHERINE CARTER, daughter of James & Frances (Gird)  Carter - Died Dec 5, 1843
   
• (Top of Marker Missing - situated next to Sarah Catherine Carter)
  CARTER - Died June 2, 1851 - Aged 2 years 1 mo. & 28 days

CLOVER

• DAVID A. CLOVER, died Jul. 1, 1851, Aged 8 yrs., 10 ms, 11 dys.
   
• MELISSA  CLOVER, died April 16, 1858 - Aged  6 mos and 6 dys.
  NOTE:  Sad to say this stone is now so worn, that her first name and part of the date can no longer be read]

COLLINS

• AMOS COLLINS, born Feb. 21, 1789, Died April 16, 1858 - Aged 40 yrs, 1 mos, 26 days
   
• PRISCILLA (COLLINS), Consort of Amos Collins, born April 4, 1797, died 25 Nov., 1835, Aged
  38 yrs, 7 mos, 21 dys, (found on Ancestry. COM  where she and Amos married in Campbell Co., KY on May 18, 1819)

GIRD

• EDWARD GIRD (Sr), died Sept, 17, 1865 - Aged 77 yrs, 6 mos. [son of Henry & Mary (Hind) Gird of Wexford, Ireland - b. ca. 1788]
   
• NANCY (Nancy Jane POWER), wife of Edward Gird, died Nov. 13, 1843 - Aged 54 years
  [Native of Marion County, Indiana]
   
• JOHN GIRD*,  Native of Ireland, died Dec. 28, 1838 - Aged 64 years  [son of Henry & Mary (Hind) Gird of Wexford, Ireland - b. ca. 1744]
   
• SALLY (Sarah), daughter of Edward GIRD & Sarah BEALER-ORR-GIRD (1977 4-H Club project - see below)
  
  Another Source ( see Sources below) gives this same Sally as
  SALLY, dau of James & Elizabeth GIRD-BARNGROVER, died Feb. 12, 1839, aged 17 yrs.
  (James Barngrover & Elizabeth Gird married Feb. 17, 1834 in Shelby Co., Indiana.)
  
  NOTE* (CONFLICTING INFORMATION as to which SALLY in the family, this girl was- see the BARNGROVER family Burials in this list above, for this same Sally listed as SALLY  BARNGROVER) - I do believe, however, that this girl was a BARNGROVER, because of her age. Sally Gird was born Abt. 1818, which would have made her about ten years older than this girl in 1839 - (t.a.d. 2003).
   
• EDWARD, son of Edward & Sarah GIRD, died July 13, 1843
       (Edward GIRD and Sarah BEALER-ORR married Feb. 27, 1815 in Fayette Co., KY)
       (Edward Gird and Jane McGOWAN married Jan. 25, 1844 in Shelby Co., Ind)
   
• JAMES W. (GIRD), son of J. & N.J. GIRD, born ??? 15, 1848, died 1850, (This stone is
  broken) (near Mary Eliza)
   
• MARY ELIZA, dau of J. & N. J. GIRD, born 1847--stone is very worn (name could no longer be read in 2002)
  Note: J. & N. J. Gird = Joseph Christopher GIRD & Nancy Jane (nee WHITE)
   
• HENRY GIRD, died Jan. 30, 1856, aged 28 yrs, 3 mos, 13 dys.
  (HENRY E. GIRD, (Indiana Congressman) was the son of Edward GIRD & Sarah BEALER-ORR-GIRD)
   

HOUGH (HOUGH family may be synonymous with "HUFF" family)

• NANCY A. HOUGH, daughter of Calvin & Jane HOUGH - born Dec. 15,1842 - Died Dec. 25,1842 - Aged 11 days
   
• NANCY  G. HOUGH, daughter of Calvin & Jane Hough -Born Nov. 10, 1843- Died Sept. 11, 1849
   
• [Flat stone on ground - very hard to read] (Two inscriptions on same marker)
  (              ) - Died Dec., 18(48)? Aged 7 mo. 22 dys.
  (              ) - Died Sept. 7, 18(41 or 44) - aged 1 yr.(8)? mos.,)
  Children of R. W. (?) & JULIANNE (?) HOUGH
   
• JOSEPH HOUGH - born A D 1777 - Died Nov. 21, 1844 - 67 years (Marker flat on ground)
  JOSEPH HUFF (Hough), Pvt.,  Gowdy's Ohio Militia. War of 1812, died Nov. 21 1844 (Standing military stone marker)
   
• [Upright marker, very hard to read]
  ROSANNA, wife of SAMUEL HUFF - Died Jan 27, 1851 - Aged 61 years
   

M'LEAN

• ALBERT, son of  J. D. & R. E. M'LEAN - Died Feb. 1, 1857 Aged 5 mos & 1 day.

ROMERILL

• To the Memory of CATHARINE ROMERILL - Died Sept 2, 1863 - Aged 20 years, 9 mos, &  7 days.
   
• To the Memory of JOHN ROMERILL - Died April 6, 1861 - Aged 68 years, 8 mos, & 9 days.

ROUSE

• [Upright marker, very hard to read]
  PATSY, daughter of (Mulhanid?) & Lucinda (ROUSE)? was born Mar. 1830 & died July 183(8)?

WHITE

• JAMES OLIVER (WHITE), son of James and Mary (GIRD) WHITE, died Oct. 15, 1830, aged 9 mos & 9 dys.
   (Mary GIRD is probably the same Mary Gird who was a daughter of Henry & Mary (Hind) GIRD of Wexford, Ireland- marriage records for Fairfield County, Alexandria, Virginia listed him as "John WHITE". - t.a.d. 2002)

SOURCES:

1. Names & Information obtained & recorded by members of the Brandywine Peppy Pals 4-H Club on May 26, 1977 - from the Family records of Donna Study.
2. Hough Cem., Gird Family stones - names & descriptions, obtained & sent to me by Jackie Goedl, on April, 7th, 2002
3. Burial information found in Hough Cemetery in Sugar Creek Township, Shelby County, (near Selbyville),
Indiana, obtained and recorded in 1980 by George and Ruby Gird - from the records of Richard Kinsley Gird

NOTE: * John GIRD, Native of Ireland, was an elder brother of Edward GIRD & a younger brother of my GGGG-Grandfather, Henry GIRD Jr, aka Henry Hatton Gird II.
John was married to Sarah "Sally" KENNEDY, of Alexandria, Virginia.

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