Friendship Cemetery
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Friendship Cemetery

Austin, Scott County, Indiana, USA

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  • Get directions N. Terry Road (N County Road 200 E)
    Austin, Indiana 47102 United States
    Coordinates: 38.74814, -85.74010
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According to the Jennings Township, Scott County, Indiana Cemetery Records Book:

This old Abandoned Burial Place is in Jennings Township, Scott County, Indiana 3 miles East of Austin, and one fourth mile north of state road 256, It is part of a 160 acre tract entered July 3rd, 1827 by Aaron Jennings, it is in a grove of trees on the south side of Hutton Creek, Friendship was a primitive Baptist Church and was not a member of the Coffee Creek Baptist Association, We do not know when it was organized but it was prior to 04/26/1834, When Abner and Nancy Hooker deeded the Two acre site to the church trustees, William Harrod, Gara Davis, and John Cruson, It was located on a now abandoned portion of the old Bethlehem Rockford State Road, Which had been established as a Highway by the state in 1825. When William Harrod died on January 25, 1835, he was buried there, Then after the church disappeared and the cemetery was abandoned, hes remains were moved in 1868 to the family graveyard on his farm a few miles to the northwest, when Nancy F. Ellinger, wife of William H. Ellinger died on 10/10/1842, at the age of 28 years, she was buried at Friendship, then in 1894 her descendants had her remains reentered at Wesley Chapel, The last Dated Burial in this Cemetery was in 1861, When the Following inscriptions were copied in 1940 there were eleven remaining marked burials, Today ( 1973) only five stones can be found. At one time there was a district school across the road from the Church, which was also known as Friendship.

According to the Jennings Township, Scott County, Indiana Cemetery Records Book:

This old Abandoned Burial Place is in Jennings Township, Scott County, Indiana 3 miles East of Austin, and one fourth mile north of state road 256, It is part of a 160 acre tract entered July 3rd, 1827 by Aaron Jennings, it is in a grove of trees on the south side of Hutton Creek, Friendship was a primitive Baptist Church and was not a member of the Coffee Creek Baptist Association, We do not know when it was organized but it was prior to 04/26/1834, When Abner and Nancy Hooker deeded the Two acre site to the church trustees, William Harrod, Gara Davis, and John Cruson, It was located on a now abandoned portion of the old Bethlehem Rockford State Road, Which had been established as a Highway by the state in 1825. When William Harrod died on January 25, 1835, he was buried there, Then after the church disappeared and the cemetery was abandoned, hes remains were moved in 1868 to the family graveyard on his farm a few miles to the northwest, when Nancy F. Ellinger, wife of William H. Ellinger died on 10/10/1842, at the age of 28 years, she was buried at Friendship, then in 1894 her descendants had her remains reentered at Wesley Chapel, The last Dated Burial in this Cemetery was in 1861, When the Following inscriptions were copied in 1940 there were eleven remaining marked burials, Today ( 1973) only five stones can be found. At one time there was a district school across the road from the Church, which was also known as Friendship.

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