Clemons Family Cemetery
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Clemons Family Cemetery

Bartholomew County, Indiana, USA

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Clemons Family Cemetery
Written Abt. 1914
Prize winning historical essay written by
Garnet Johnson then an eight grade student.

About five miles west of Columbus on the farm of D. Clint Loy lies a lonely and unkept spot known as the Clemons Cemetery, which is almost a century old.
The Clemons family formerly owned and lived on the farm that is was owned, occupied by the Loys and now by Terry Baxter. It was customary in those days for every family to have their own cemetery on their farm.
Fifteen monuments, some of them scattered over one end of the plot, tell of the graves. Five of these could hardly be called monuments as they are small, brown rough edged boulders driven into the ground at the head of the graves. They are in a little group at the western end of the cemetery and nearly all of uniform size with no inscription whatever on them. The remaining ten of these monuments -five large and five small ones - are made of limestone.
It is difficult to get into the interior of the cemetery because of the tangled vines and shrubbery. There are three beautiful cedar trees in the plot. One rather large tree stands in the southern part of the graveyard in the mid of some tangled wild rose bushes. A very large tree presides almost directly in the center of the graveyard; and a small but beautiful tree spreads her green branches and like a guardian angel watches over the five small graves with boulder tombstones.

Ref. Indiana Conservation Officer Case Report # 94-03-47204










Clemons Family Cemetery
Written Abt. 1914
Prize winning historical essay written by
Garnet Johnson then an eight grade student.

About five miles west of Columbus on the farm of D. Clint Loy lies a lonely and unkept spot known as the Clemons Cemetery, which is almost a century old.
The Clemons family formerly owned and lived on the farm that is was owned, occupied by the Loys and now by Terry Baxter. It was customary in those days for every family to have their own cemetery on their farm.
Fifteen monuments, some of them scattered over one end of the plot, tell of the graves. Five of these could hardly be called monuments as they are small, brown rough edged boulders driven into the ground at the head of the graves. They are in a little group at the western end of the cemetery and nearly all of uniform size with no inscription whatever on them. The remaining ten of these monuments -five large and five small ones - are made of limestone.
It is difficult to get into the interior of the cemetery because of the tangled vines and shrubbery. There are three beautiful cedar trees in the plot. One rather large tree stands in the southern part of the graveyard in the mid of some tangled wild rose bushes. A very large tree presides almost directly in the center of the graveyard; and a small but beautiful tree spreads her green branches and like a guardian angel watches over the five small graves with boulder tombstones.

Ref. Indiana Conservation Officer Case Report # 94-03-47204










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