The stones were taken to the dump. At that time the dump was on old 52, just north of Lebanon on the way to Lafayette. If you go there now at present, 2002 there is now a golf course there and along the outer edge there are house's. These are the people that have had tombstones come up in their back yards. If you live in that area than you should know where the dump was and were the golf course is now. I grew up in Lebanon and attended Lebanon High School. I have researched Cedar Hill because I was so disgusted at what had been done to a pioneer cemetery and after I found an aunt that I had been searching for buried there. I have been looking up census records trying to inform people if in fact they have relatives buried there? Still Searching, Kim Hancock ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Anne Cook" <nanny12@geetel.net> To: <INBOONE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 4:25 PM Subject: Re: [INBOONE-L] Cedar Hill Cemetery Pg. 2 > Hi Everyone, > I am Mary Anne Cook. I have an ancestor Mary byroad who was burried in > Cedar Hill Cemetery In Lebanon. I went and looked up the cemetery tonight > when I took My Granddaughter back over to Lebanon. From what I could find > out about the cemetery is that there were about 500 people burried there. > One headstone that still stands there had the year 1776 on it. According to > a stone in the middle of the old cemetery all 500 bodies were removed. > There is no Golf Course that I could find anywhere around the cemetery. > There is an American Flag that is flying in the direct middle of the > cemetery. There is also a big Angel by a tree there that evidently was not > removed when the bodies were. There is a stone in the middle by the flag > pole that says it is the old Cedar Hill Cemetery. There is a big green > water tower in the middle of the cemetery also. > The big stone that had the year 1776 on it said the name of the person there > was Robert Hill Revolutionary War Soldier. > I hope this helps someone. I am planning a trip over there to the Library > tomorrow to see what I can find out about My ancestor Mary Byroad. I am > wanting to find out if she is indeed My GGGGrandmother Mary Bollinger Byroad > who was married to John (Unckle Jacky) Byroad My GGGGrandfather. My > GGGGrandmother died sometime between 1880 and 1890. I also had an Aunt > Grace Byroad who died in 1893 at 3 years of age and her baby brother Edward > Byroad who died at the age of 1 month also in 1893. I also want to find out > where they are burried. I cannot figure out why the bodies were removed and > the cemetery closed down, unless the people living around the cemetery did > not feel comfortable about it being that close to where they lived. In any > case it should have been left alone. Our ancestors chose that cemetery for > their final resting place. They should have been left to rest there. > Always > Mary Anne Cook > > From: <VerdeRoots@aol.com> > To: <INBOONE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 4:38 PM > Subject: Re: [INBOONE-L] Cedar Hill Cemetery Pg. 2 > > > > > > In a message dated 3/24/02 1:06:07 PM, hancock@link2000.net writes: > > > > << Be > > > > kind of neat if a bunch of peope would make a float of a cemetery with a > > > > large tombstone saying Cedar Hill on it. >> > > > > If I were in the area, I'd say "I'll help build it!" > > > > > > ==== INBOONE Mailing List ==== > > This mailing list is hosted by Rootsweb. For information on how your > > donation can help, go to: http://www.rootsweb.com. > > > > > > > ==== INBOONE Mailing List ==== > This mailing list is hosted by Rootsweb. For information on how your > donation can help, go to: http://www.rootsweb.com. > >

Hi, I really appreciate what you are telling me. I don't live in Lebanon and never have, but have visited the park there with my Grandparents lanus and Pansy Byroad Purdue when I was a child. Two of my brothers and several cousins were born there in Witham Hospital. My Uncle Neal Purdue died there in 1928 after being hit by a car in Dover where they lived at the time. he was My Mother's brother. She was just a newborn when he was hit and killed. I am also disgusted at having a cemetery desecrated in that manner. I do intend to find out if I still have family burried in that cemetery. I know I will probably never find out exactly where they are there, but at least I will know they are there somewhere. Always Mary Anne From: "Hancock's" <hancock@link2000.net> To: <INBOONE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 12:36 AM Subject: Re: [INBOONE-L] Cedar Hill Cemetery Pg. 2 > The stones were taken to the dump. At that time the dump was on old 52, > just north of Lebanon on the way to Lafayette. If you go there now at > present, 2002 there is now a golf course there and along the outer edge > there are house's. These are the people that have had tombstones come up in > their back yards. If you live in that area than you should know where the > dump was and were the golf course is now. I grew up in Lebanon and attended > Lebanon High School. I have researched Cedar Hill because I was so > disgusted at what had been done to a pioneer cemetery and after I found an > aunt that I had been searching for buried there. I have been looking up > census records trying to inform people if in fact they have relatives buried > there? > > Still Searching, > Kim Hancock > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mary Anne Cook" <nanny12@geetel.net> > To: <INBOONE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 4:25 PM > Subject: Re: [INBOONE-L] Cedar Hill Cemetery Pg. 2 > > > > Hi Everyone, > > I am Mary Anne Cook. I have an ancestor Mary byroad who was burried in > > Cedar Hill Cemetery In Lebanon. I went and looked up the cemetery tonight > > when I took My Granddaughter back over to Lebanon. From what I could find > > out about the cemetery is that there were about 500 people burried there. > > One headstone that still stands there had the year 1776 on it. According > to > > a stone in the middle of the old cemetery all 500 bodies were removed. > > There is no Golf Course that I could find anywhere around the cemetery. > > There is an American Flag that is flying in the direct middle of the > > cemetery. There is also a big Angel by a tree there that evidently was > not > > removed when the bodies were. There is a stone in the middle by the flag > > pole that says it is the old Cedar Hill Cemetery. There is a big green > > water tower in the middle of the cemetery also. > > The big stone that had the year 1776 on it said the name of the person > there > > was Robert Hill Revolutionary War Soldier. > > I hope this helps someone. I am planning a trip over there to the Library > > tomorrow to see what I can find out about My ancestor Mary Byroad. I am > > wanting to find out if she is indeed My GGGGrandmother Mary Bollinger > Byroad > > who was married to John (Unckle Jacky) Byroad My GGGGrandfather. My > > GGGGrandmother died sometime between 1880 and 1890. I also had an Aunt > > Grace Byroad who died in 1893 at 3 years of age and her baby brother > Edward > > Byroad who died at the age of 1 month also in 1893. I also want to find > out > > where they are burried. I cannot figure out why the bodies were removed > and > > the cemetery closed down, unless the people living around the cemetery did > > not feel comfortable about it being that close to where they lived. In > any > > case it should have been left alone. Our ancestors chose that cemetery > for > > their final resting place. They should have been left to rest there. > > Always > > Mary Anne Cook > > > > From: <VerdeRoots@aol.com> > > To: <INBOONE-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 4:38 PM > > Subject: Re: [INBOONE-L] Cedar Hill Cemetery Pg. 2 > > > > > > > > > > In a message dated 3/24/02 1:06:07 PM, hancock@link2000.net writes: > > > > > > << Be > > > > > > kind of neat if a bunch of peope would make a float of a cemetery with a > > > > > > large tombstone saying Cedar Hill on it. >> > > > > > > If I were in the area, I'd say "I'll help build it!" > > > > > > > > > ==== INBOONE Mailing List ==== > > > This mailing list is hosted by Rootsweb. For information on how your > > > donation can help, go to: http://www.rootsweb.com. > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== INBOONE Mailing List ==== > > This mailing list is hosted by Rootsweb. For information on how your > > donation can help, go to: http://www.rootsweb.com. > > > > > > > ==== INBOONE Mailing List ==== > > >

Kim Is there a listing of the burials in the cemetery? Pam Arnold