Paoli Township. Section 20, T2N R1E.

Locally and commonly referred to as: "County Farm, County Infirmary, Poor Farm, County Asylum, Pauper's Field, Potter's Field".

The last County "Poor Farm", where the destitute and homeless lived, was supposedly built in the 1930's around the Great Depression era. The chutes on the sides of the building were for emergencies, such as fire, where everyone would need to be evacuated. It's been a private residence for the past 49 years for the White family, originally built in 1902 and burned down in 1912, being rebuilt in 1913. It has been recorded that while Thomas Wininger was the Superintendent of the County Poor Farm in 1900 and 1910, some of the graves were moved for either widening or repairing the road.

Take Hwy. #37 North from Paoli to Orleans, about 2 miles, N. County Road #175 E. veers right into County Farm Road (E. Co. Rd. 200 N.) About 3 miles on the right you'll see the towering red brick County Farm with emergency slide chutes down each side with its Potter's Field Cemetery right across the road.

According to our relatives and local folks, the "Poor Farm, old County Infirmary/Asylum" had about 20 rooms for its "inmates" (recent owner says there were 42 in total). Its cemetery contains approx. 50 graves, mostly marked with field-stones, with no complete accountable record in their memory.

By compassion of our related families, extensively researched and documented by Derrill Ray Wilson, and provided by The Reverend Mother Estelle Irene Kinkade Wilson, those known buried here, forgotten, or unknown are being respectfully recorded in these memorial pages. Our related families also include Charlie Tredway (Coordinator of http://www.InGenWeb.org/InOrange), Rob Lane (Census Enumerator Transcriber-among many talents), along with photos by Larry (Bobby) Robert Baker.

We have all been deeply rooted in Orange County and it is our hope that others will share their knowledge of these precious souls, adding to their remembrances. This "deserted cemetery was said to being maintained as a requirement for an interred U.S. Military Veteran".

12/04/2013 Chiquita Leilania (Heckler) Baker, a daughter of a father who fought for the Red, White and Blue.