Genealogy

Cemetery Records with photographs of headstones.


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Cemetery

White River Township

Gibson County, Indiana

Coordinates:38.4424 N Latitude; 87.5608 W Longitude
Congressional Location:NE-1/4; DONATION 10; TOWNSHIP 1S; RANGE 10W
Common Directions:

Located atop a steep hill, about 1/4 mile south of Steelman Chapel Road, at the intersection with County Road 25E, about 2 miles northeast of Patoka.

Last updated  17 Jul 2012

The following list is an attempt to show all known graves, using several different sources. There may be other graves which are unknown due to missing, unreadable, destroyed or broken markers.  Photos by Daniel L Elliott, 17 Mar 2010 with assistance of John Anthis.
If you have knowledge of any other graves which may not be shown below, please drop us an e-mail and let us know.   email016.gif (1209 bytes)

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Surname Given Name
 Birth Date
 Death Date
 Notes & Inscriptions
Photo
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Field  Abraham 27 Dec 1793 12 Apr 1870 Husband of Grace (RAINEY) FIELD.  Married 8 Mar 1815.
Son of Keen & Anna (LEWIS) FIELD.
Aged 76 yrs. 3 mos. 15 dys.
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Field.  A E
 1 Jun 1872 3 Aug 1873 Child of Benjamin R & Elizabeth (MOORE) FIELD.
(Given name can not be read.)
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Field  Cynthia Easter
 9 Oct 1856 7 Feb 1869 Daughter of Benjamin R & Lydia E. (BROWN) FIELD.
Note:  Marjoie Mallot reports the date of death as 14 Feb 1869. -- Stone clearly reads 7 Feb 1869)
8312

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Field  Elizabeth 17 Feb 1838 11 Nov 1873 nee MOORE.  Second wife of Benjamin R FIELD.  Daughter of John C. & Elizabeth (DAWSON) MOORE.8308

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Field  Elizabeth A
 3 Feb 1836 11 Sep 1837 Daughter of Abraham & Grace (RAINEY) FIELD.
Aged 1 yr. 7 mos. 8 dys.
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Field  Grace 31 Jul 1797 30 Mar 1863 nee RAINEY.   Wife of Abraham FIELD.  Married 8 Mar 1815. Daughter of William & Esther (ROBINSON) RAINEY.
"In the 66th year of her age."
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Field Joseph Jackson
 20 Jan 1831 25 Oct 1864 Husband of Nancy J (PHILLIPS), 1st, married 8 Jun 1852; and Rachel E (MORRISON) FIELD, 2nd, married 8 Jan 1863.  Son of Abraham & Grace (RAINEY) FIELD.
Aged 33 yrs. 9 mos. 5 dys. 		8319

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Field  Lydia Ella
 25 May 1827 14 Feb 1869 nee BROWN.  First wife of Benjamin R FIELD.  Daughter of John & Temperance (MEDLEY) BROWN.8310

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Field  Infant 5 Oct 1873  5 Oct 1873 Infant son of Benjamin R & Elizabeth (MOORE) FIELD.

 8317

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Field Infant18 ??? 1851 22 ??? 1853
This may be a child of Benjamin R & Lydia E. (BROWN) FIELD.  Photo courtesy of Gene & Lucie Field.

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Field Nancy J
 6 Feb 1833  7 Aug 1862
nee PHILLIPS.  Consort (first wife) of Joseph J FIELD.  Married 8 Jun 1852.
Aged 29 ys. 5 ms. 27 ds.
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Field Thomas H Benton
  3 Feb 1836
 16 Jul 1854
 Son of Abraham & Grace (RAINEY) FIELD.
(Broken stone; only top of stone found.)
(Dates from FIELD family genealogy records.)
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?  ???eh Anne
     (Broken Stone. Possibly infant dau. of Abraham & Grace (RAINEY) FIELD.)
(No stone found 17 Mar 2010.)
No photo available.
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 Rough stone; may or may not have been a grave marker?
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Most information provided by Lucie Field and Gene Field who visited the cemetery in July 1999 and again in 2011.
Land where the cemetery is located was originally settled by Keen & Anna (LEWIS) FIELD, then occupied by their son Abraham, and then his son Benjamin R Field.

The above image is from Tartt's History of Gibson County, Indiana