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Cemetery Records with photographs of headstones.

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McCurdy Cemetery

(Also known as Dugan Cemetery)

Patoka Township

Gibson County, Indiana

Coordinates:	Latitude, 38.3512 N;  Longitude, -87.5962 W
Congressional Location:	SE-1/4; SE-1/4; SECTION 11; TOWNSHIP 2S; RANGE 11W
Common Directions:	Located about 500-600 feet north of County Road  50S, 250 feet east of the intersection with US41, about 0.5 mile southeast of Princeton.
Last updated	23 Oct 2019

The following list was furnished by Dorothy Kirby, and photographs on 10 Mar 2010 by Daniel L Elliott.   Notes were supplemented with marriage and census records plus genealogy records.  There probably are unmarked graves plus a few unknown due to missing, unreadable, destroyed or broken markers.  
If you have knowledge of any other graves which may not be shown below, please drop us an e-mail and let us know.

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Surname	Given Name	Birth Date	Death Date	Notes and Inscriptions	Photo # Photo	Sect- ion	Row
Benson	James, Sr.	1761	1844	Born in Pennsylvania. Aged 82 years.	Headstone not found 10 Mar 2010.	N/A	?
Benton	Mary Etta	--	4 Sep 1868	Aged 10 mos. 28 dys.	Headstone not found 10 Mar 2010.	N/A	?
Binkley	James	abt 1828	--	Husband of Mary Jane (DOUGAN) married 14 Aug 1851.	Headstone not found 10 Mar 2010.	N/A	?
Binkley	Sarah C	--	7 Oct 1854	Daughter of Jame & Mary Jane (DOUGAN) BINKLEY. Aged 1 yr. 7 mos. 10 dys.	Headstone not found 10 Mar 2010.	N/A	?
Calvin	Nancy	--	23 Sep 1878	nee MOUNTS. Wife of Eli HANKS, 1st, married 6 Apr 1848; and Job CALVIN, 2nd, married 24 MAR 1864. Aged 49 years. (Note:  Marriage record reads Job COLVIN.)	Headstone not found 10 Mar 2010.	N/A	?
Dougan	Charles	25 Dec 1841	22 Sep 1874	Husband of Desdemonia (WILSON) DOUGAN married 6 Nov 1862.	8129	N/A	5
Dougan	Desdemonia	--	--	nee WILSON.  Wife of Charles DOUGAN.  Married 6 Nov 1862. Born Fayette County, Indiana. Bottom of stone is unreadable.	8128	N/A	5
Dougan	George W	--	22 May 1859	Son of Samuel & Mary "Polly" (IRVIN / ERWIN) DOUGAN. Aged 19 yrs. 4 mos. 10 dys.	8122	N/A	5
Dougan	I B	20 Jun 1869	15 Sep 1873	Daughter of J. & E. J. DOUGAN; "She's gone she's left this world of woe for regions of . . ."	8136	N/A	6
Dougan	Oscar E	23 Jun 1861	24 Feb 1868	Son of Charles & Desdemonia (WILSON) DOUGAN. "Born in Gibson Co..."	8127	N/A	5
Dougan	Samuel	--	22 Nov 1862	Husband of Mary "Polly" (IRVIN / ERWIN) DOUGAN married 16 Feb 1832. "A loving husband & father, a faithful friend lies buried here." Aged 51 yrs. 22 mos. 23 dys.	8121	N/A	5
Dougan	Sarah "Sally"	12 Mar 1814	22 May 1854	nee HELT.  Wife of James DOUGAN married 24 Feb 1831.  "A loving wife a mother dear, a faithful friend lies buried here." Aged 40 yrs. 2 mos. 11 dys.	8084	N/A	4
Erwin	John	--	15 Jul 1851	Husband of Mary ERWIN. Aged 71 years.	8112	N/A	4
Erwin	Susannah	15 Jun 1811	31 Jul 1851	Wife of Charles ERWIN	8113 Large headstone not found 10 Mar 2010.	N/A	4
Fisher	Stephen	--	1865	--	Headstone not found 10 Mar 2010.	N/A	?
Gordon	James H	30 Jan 1853	30 Oct 1853	Son of Daniel & Narcissa GORDON married 17 Feb 1848. (Top of stone is now missing; no visible markings.)	8109	N/A	3
Gordon	Narcissa	15 Dec 1829	23 Oct 1859	nee HANKS. Consort of Daniel T GORDON married 17 Feb 1848. (Top of stone is now missing.)	8108	N/A	3
Green	Bertha Ellen	--	21 Oct 1855	Daughter of Flemmon R & Sarah E GREEN. Aged 1 week.	8118	N/A	4
Hanks	Comadore P	9 Nov 1853	2 May 1876	Son of James S & Eliza HANKS. Aged 23 yrs. 3 mos. 3 dys.	Photo contributed by Ron Hanks, 1999. Headstone not found 10 Mar 2010.	N/A	?
Hanks	Francis Marion	1828-1832	4 Aug 1881	Corporal Company "G"; 1st. Reg., California Infantry. Enlisted as Pvt., in Co. G, California, 5th Inf. Reg on 28 Nov 1861, promoted to Full Corporal, 27 Nov 1864.  Transferred to Co. G, California 1st Inf. Battalion, 27 Nov 1864.  Mustered out 15 Sep 1866 at Los Prinos, New Mexico. (Note:  Date of death from "Headstones Provided for Union Civil War Veterans, 1879-1903")	Photo contributed by Ron Hanks, 1999. 8098  10 Mar 2010	N/A	2
Hanks	James W	abt 1833	10 Aug 1872	Husband of Marium HANKS.	Headstone not found 10 Mar 2010.	N/A	?
Hanks	Marium	14 Feb 1833	27 Feb 1872	Wife of James W HANKS. Aged 39 yrs. 13 dys.	Photo contributed by Ron Hanks, 1999. 8139  10 Mar 2010	N/A	6
Hanks	Mary	21 Jan 1771	Aug 1856	nee STEWART.  Wife of William HANKS (The Minister)	Photo contributed by Ron Hanks, 1999. Headstone not found 10 Mar 2010.	N/A	?
Hanks	William M	15 Dec 1824	28 Sep 1851	Husband of Lourna HANKS. "A loving husband and father dear, a faithful friend is buried here." Aged 26 yrs. 9 mos. 13 dys.	Photo contributed by Ron Hanks, 1999. 8107  10 Mar 2010	N/A	3
Hanks	William, Rev.	--	17 Feb 1825	Consort of Mary "Polly" (STEWART) HANKS. Aged 55 years.	Photo contributed by Ron Hanks, 1999. 8095  10 Mar 2010.	N/A	2
May	Matilda	20 May 1820	20 Jan 1852	nee SPORE.  Wife of Cassimer MAY.  Married 2 Dec 1847.  Daughter of Henry & Elizabeth SPORE. Dates from family genealogy. (Note: The name "MAY" is not visible on the tombstone fragments. It may have been left off intentionally.  Per GLS)	Photo by Gerald  L "Jerry" SPORE. Headstone not found 10 Mar 2010.	N/A	?
Martin	Nancy E	--	17 Jul 1874	Daughter of A. P. & ? MARTIN. Aged 2 mos. 18 ds. (Note:  This stone was previously read as "McCURDY, Nancy C.")	8131	N/A	5
Mauck	Cordelia J	17 Jun 1848	27 May 1865	nee McNEELY.  Wife of Julius MAUCK married 10 Jan 1865.	Photo contributed by Ron Hanks, 1999. Headstone not found 10 Mar 2010.	N/A	?
McCurdy	Martin	--	17 Jul 1874	Aged 24 yrs. 18 dys.	Headstone not found 10 Mar 2010.	N/A	?
McMullen	Belinda Ann	16 ??? 1813	30 Nov 1848	nee EMBREE. Wife of Thomas McMULLEN, Jr.	8100 (footstone)	N/A	3
McMullen	Ellen Jane	12 Aug 1838	3 Oct 1844	Daughter of Thomas Jr. & Belinda McMULLEN	Headstone not found 10 Mar 2010.	N/A	?
McMullen	Hugh	5 Apr 1805	29 Jul 1854	Husband of Mary McMULLEN. Aged 49 years.	8102	N/A	1
McMullen	Sarah	--	3 Jun 1849	Wife of Thomas McMULLEN Sr. Aged 87 years.	8105	N/A	3
McMullen	Thomas, Sr.	--	26 Sep 1835	Husband of Sarah McMULLEN. Aged 72 years.	Headstone was not found 10 Mar 2010.  Found and photographed by by Shiela Wiseman and posted to Find-A-Grave on 13 Apr 2013.	N/A	?
McNeely	George	24 May 1824	5 Oct 1850	Aged 26 yrs. 4 mos. 11 dys.	Headstone not found 10 Mar 2010.	N/A	?
Spore	Elizabeth	12 Oct 1783	31 May 1862	nee RAMEY.  Wife of Henry SPORE. Aged 78 yrs. 6 mos. 18 dys.	8091 8093	N/A	1
Spore	Henry	--	7 Jun 1860	Husband of Elizabeth SPORE. "O Father Mother dear a short farewell; That we may meet . . ." Aged 76 Years.	Photo by Gerald L "Jerry" SPORE. 8089  10 Mar 2010 8090  10 Mar 2010	N/A	1
Spore	John	--	25 May 1855	Aged 47 yrs. 4 mos. 20 dys. (Note:  Top of stone is now missing.)	Photo by Gerald L "Jerry" SPORE. 8088  10 Mar 2010	N/A	1
?	?	--	--	Top of stone is missing. Aged 29 yrs. 13 ds.	8134	N/A	6
?	?	--	--	Top of stone is missing. Æ. 40 yrs.	8114	N/A	4
?	?	--	--	Broken stone and base. In row of McMULLEN burials.	8103	N/A	3
?	?	--	--	Broken stone. "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord."	8087	N/A	1

The above information, per transcribed records furnished by Dorothy Kirby.
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NOTE:  Dorothy A KIRBY, died 26 Mar 1992, age 75, and is buried at Columbia (White Church) Cemetery.
              Raymond KIRBY, died 5 Apr 2007, age 93, and is buried at Columbia (White Church) Cemetery.

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The following article was submitted by Ron Hanks and is a reprint of an article appearing in the Evansville Press - June 18, 1984.

Cemetery Search
Tracing the ‘distant’ link to Nancy Hanks

By C.L. Walter, staff reporter

PRINCETON, Ind - Dorothy Kirby always had wondered if there was any truth to her family’s claim that they were related to Nancy Hanks, the mother of Abraham Lincoln.

So four years ago, with a new interest in her own genealogy, she and her husband, Raymond, began tracing Dorothy’s family tree, a quest that led them to the 159-year-old cemetery about one mile southwest of Princeton. Not content with just listing the names on the tumbled headstones, the Kirbys began restoring the old burial ground.

"I always knew it was there because my Dad always said it was there," said Mrs. Kirby, 67, who had not been to the cemetery before she began her search. " I feel comfortable there."

Mrs. Kirby has not found any evidence that she and Nancy Hanks are distant relatives, she and her husband have found plenty of "Hanks" buried in the old cemetery.

There’s the Rev. William Hanks, Mrs. Kirby’s great-great-grandfather who was the first person buried in the cemetery in 1825. And there is a Civil War veteran named Francis Hanks, who, according to his tombstone, served in Company B of the first California infantry.

She has learned through research that the Rev. Hanks formed the Primitive Baptist Church somewhere east of Princeton and another one in Patoka.

"I’ve given up all hope of ever finding a relationship with Nancy Hanks," said Mrs. Kirby, whose maiden name is Kendle. She said she first learned of the family from her grandmother’s obituary. The obituary did not detail the relationship however.

The Kirbys have uncovered tombstones of 36 people so far, ranging in ages from 2 months and 18 days to 87. Of the 36, 17 are her relation.

Uncovering the tombstones was just the first step. The couple cleaned the stones and pieced together some that had been broken.

Raymond Kirby, who is 70, said they have traveled to various parts of Indiana, Illinois and Missouri looking for ancestors on both sides of their family. "We’ve been all over and we still have a lot to go," Raymond said.

The Kirbys, who have no interest in being buried in the old cemetery when they die, consider the work they are doing as a hobby, and a way to get exercise. They also consider it a good way to honor their ancestors.

Raymond said, "I feel like we’re doing them a service.