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Sarah Roberds Adamson

Birth
Union County, South Carolina, USA
Death
14 Jun 1855 (aged 58)
Grant County, Indiana, USA
Burial
Gas City, Grant County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
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This old cemetery a little north and a half mile east of Gas City dates back to the very earliest days of the county. Silas Parks came to the county in 1835 and in 1837 his little daughter Caroline died of croup and was buried here. The History of 1883 names her and "a son of Isaiah Roberds as being the first deaths and both interred in Walnut
Creek Cemetery. Diligent inquiry did not reveal any one who could remember that a church ever stood here. A grand daughter of Silas Parks said that she remembered hearing her mother say that her grandfather preached in a little log church that stood near this cemetery but she had no knowledge of what ever had happened to it. Silas Parks was a minister for the Disciples Church and a man prominent in county affairs.
Record Book B page 186 in the Grant County Recorder's office says "From John Adamson to the trustees of C. Church this indenture is made and concluded this fourteenth day of February, in the year of Our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty eight - by and between John Adamson and the society stiled (styled) by the name of Christian Church in said county on Walnut Creek and lying in said county" - then follows a
description of the land - "for the express purpose for burying ground and meeting house. Sarah Adamson wife of John Adamson doth hereby relinquish her right of dower to the
above described tract of land."
Witness: William Roberds
George W. Heltin
On Page 187 of Record Book S John Troxel and his wife Anna deed "a parcel of ground" to this same church for the sum of twenty - five cents. John Adamson received the sum of one dollar for his land.
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This old cemetery a little north and a half mile east of Gas City dates back to the very earliest days of the county. Silas Parks came to the county in 1835 and in 1837 his little daughter Caroline died of croup and was buried here. The History of 1883 names her and "a son of Isaiah Roberds as being the first deaths and both interred in Walnut
Creek Cemetery. Diligent inquiry did not reveal any one who could remember that a church ever stood here. A grand daughter of Silas Parks said that she remembered hearing her mother say that her grandfather preached in a little log church that stood near this cemetery but she had no knowledge of what ever had happened to it. Silas Parks was a minister for the Disciples Church and a man prominent in county affairs.
Record Book B page 186 in the Grant County Recorder's office says "From John Adamson to the trustees of C. Church this indenture is made and concluded this fourteenth day of February, in the year of Our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty eight - by and between John Adamson and the society stiled (styled) by the name of Christian Church in said county on Walnut Creek and lying in said county" - then follows a
description of the land - "for the express purpose for burying ground and meeting house. Sarah Adamson wife of John Adamson doth hereby relinquish her right of dower to the
above described tract of land."
Witness: William Roberds
George W. Heltin
On Page 187 of Record Book S John Troxel and his wife Anna deed "a parcel of ground" to this same church for the sum of twenty - five cents. John Adamson received the sum of one dollar for his land.

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Wife of John Adamson,aged 58y.2m.23d.

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