Abraham Cemetery

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Pictures taken June 26, 2004

This cemetery is located in the SE corner of section 35, Ceneter Township and almost on the line with Jackson Township. The first burials were in 1843. There are two Civil War veterans in the cemetery and Lot Abraham is suppose to have buried his cavalry horse here. He also built a chapel on the site. While searching for the cemetery my husband startled a six point buck who was resting inside the chapel. I found twenty burials.

I was told that the Center Township Trustees placed the white fence around the cemetery and the cemetery was very neatly mowed. Imagine drive one half mile through tall grass and then suddently you see this stone chapel with no windows and the neatly mowed cemetery in the middle of nowhere.

Please ask permission to go back, from the lady who lives on the other side of the quarry.

Lot Abraham was three years old when he came with his family to Center township in 1841. His father John died in 1843 and may be the first burial in the cemetery. Lot Abraham enlisted in the Civil War in Sept 1861 and became a Capt. He was mustered out Aug 8, 1865. He married Sarah Alden in 1865 whose father was a stone-cutter and dressed the first marble in Henry County, and put the first lettering on tombstones. Lot Abraham was elected to the state senate and served in the Nineteenth and Twentieth General Assemblies.

This is the gate that leads into the lane that goes up to the old farmstead.

Lane loops around the fence and goes behind the barn and then east

Coming back from the cemetery on the path. The homestead would be the farthest trees. I believe we are passing a pond on the left.

Abraham Cemetery

Lot Abraham's Chapel.

I wonder if this was for funeral services, weekly worship or a memorial to his wife and father.

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Go to Page One of Stones

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