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Everett Farm Cemetery

Everett Farm Cemetery is located at the intersection of 1200 S. and 200 W., south and east of Silver Lake in Kosciusko County.  I am using a 1974 index by Lester Binnie to help in listing the stones. Some stones that he indexed are no longer in existence.  Likewise, one stone I found was not in his list from 1974.

In March 2008 I recieved a letter from an ancestor of many of the persons buried in the Everett Farm Cemetery. In part, the letter(s) read:

Jacob & Catherine (Block) Hill, who died in 1842 and 1852 respectively, are my fourth (GGGG) grandparents.   They are buried in what my Hill family and I know to be the HILL FAMILY CEMETERY.   At best, the name "Everett Farm Cemetery" is a misnomer.    
(Jacob Hill, who died 1842 and is buried in the HILL FAMILY CEMETERY in Kosciusko County, Indiana, was named after his great grandfather ... who first came to America from Germany in the early 1700's.)
 
I'm sure my Hill family only knew it as the HILL FAMILY CEMETERY.   After all, they did own the land originally... and they did create this cemetery...  and at least 28 of my Hill family are buried there... maybe more.   And, ironically, according to the records, there are NO Everett's even buried there
 
It is my understanding that this cemetery started out as a HILL FAMILY CEMETERY when my family originally settled there in the 1830's.  They were some of the original early settlers of this Kosciusko County area.   However, many decades later, one of the HILL girls married an Everett (Ebert?).   And, apparently, this same HILL-Everett girl inherited the land the HILL FAMILY CEMETERY sits on, as well as a lot of other land around it.

Jacob Hill came to Kosciusko County in the summer of 1839 with his extended family  His purchase of 80 acres is recorded in the Kosciusko County School Lands Records.  His daughter Elizabeth married Samuel Daniel, probably in Ohio just prior to the move to Indiana.  Elizabeth died on 22 January 1840 shortly after the birth of her son, George.  Her grave was the first in what was to become the family cemetery on the northwest corner of Jacob's farm.  Jacob died the next year on 14 September 1842 and his grave was the second in the family plot.
 
Jacob's youngest son, William, inherited the farm and over the next 14 years six more Hills and a granddaughter, Sarah Bradley, were buried in the Hill family cemetery.  Then, in 1856 and 1858, William allowed two neighbors to be buried in the cemetery, a bit west of the Hill graves.  At least 16 more Hills are known to have been buried over the next 53 years as well as several neighbors.  William died on 11 August 1909 and is the last Hill known to be buried there.   I find only seven graves of others buried after William's death
 
William lived on the Hill farm at least until his wife's death in 1888.  His daughter, Mary D. Hill, married Wilber F.Ebert on 27 November 1890.  At some point over the next 10 years, the Eberts apparently took over the farm.  The 1900 Federal Census shows William as a border in the Ebert family.  A 1914 Atlas shows all of the land formerly owned by William as now called Hillside Farm, W. F. Ebert.

Historical Hill Family Info Provided by - David Hill & Robert Weimer,
Hill Family Ancestors.


Everett Farm Photos .

A
Alexander, John d. 1886, age 25
Alexander, Joseph H. d. 1891, age 70
Alexander, Julia Ann wife of J.H. d. 1891, age 64
Alexander, Mary C. dau of J.H. & J.A d. 1853 age 2
Alexander, Verl C. son of J. & A.C. d. 188(7), age 2
Alexander, William H. son of J.H. & J.A. d. 1852, age 2

B
Bradley, Christiana, wife of James, d. 1871, age 53
Bradley, Sarah, dau. of J. & C.A d. 1856, age 1

C
Cosby, James E. son of W. &  R. d. 185(8), age 2
Cosby, Rebecca, wife of Wm d. 1859, age 37
Crasher, Henry 1822-1902
Crasher, Nancy wife of Henry 1828-1897

D
Daniel, Elizabeth, wife of Samuel d. 1840, age 21

E
Evans, ____, son of W.N. & M. d. 1865 age 1 or 4

H
Hackworth, infant 1957
Hill, Adam, son of Wm. & B, 1847-1883
Hill, Albert, son of C. & Mary E. d. 18(58)
Hill, Amanda, dau. of C. & S. d. 1865, age 26
Hill, Barbara, wife of Wm. d. 1888, age 65
Hill, Catharine, wife of Jacob, d. 1852, age 63
Hill, Charles d. 1895, age 85
Hill, Daniel F. son of C. & M.E. d. 1888, age 20
Hill, Donald B., son of W.A. & M.L. d. 1890, age 4 mos.
Hill, Henry, son of Wm. & B. d 1870, age 14
Hill, Jacob d. 1842, age 60
Hill, Jacob, son of Wm. & B. d. 1870, age 24
Hill, J. H. son of Henry and M.E. no dates readable
Hill, John, son of Wm. & B. d. 1854, age 1
Hill, Leah, dau. of Charles & Sarah d. 1856, age 5 days
Hill, Mary E. wife of Charles d. 1890, age 61
Hill, Mary E 1833-1933
     (beside Mary's grave he notes 6 sunken graves with no markers)
Hill, Ovid, son of S, & E.J. d. 1872, age 1 month
Hill, Reuben, son of Charles & Sarah d. 1849, age 4 mos.
Hill, Sarah, wife of Charles d. 1856, age 46
Hill, Sirena Arbella, dau. of C. & M.E. d. 1875, age 14
Hill, Steven d. 1879, age 42 Vet. 1861-1865
Hill, William d. 1909, age 86
Hopkins, Frank Jr. 1907-1943

L
Lawrence, Elizabeth dau. of D. & C. d. 1856, age 6
Lightcap, Catharine A. dau. of J. &. L d. 1874, age 21 or 24
Lightcap, Lydia wife of John d. 1877, age 71

M
Myers, Joseph d. 1873 age 5 (3 or 9)

O
Overman, Dessie dau. of C. & C. d. 1888, age 2
Owens. Debra Lee 1955-1956

P
Phillips, Caleb d. 186 (5 or 6), age 55
Phillips, Susanna W. wife of C. d 1861, age 60

R
Rhodes, Anthony
son of M. & E. d. 1860, age 4
Rhodes, infant son of M. & E. d. 1867
Rhodes, Joseph son of M. & E. d. 1862, age 3 mos.
Rhodes, Michael
d. 1886, age (71)

S
Sebring, Susanna dau. of W. & M. d. 1862, age 2
Sebring, Warren E. son of J.C. & S.A. d. 1887, age 2
Sunboe, Carew 1898-1933
Slone, Sunboe 1948-1948
Smith, Effie R. dau. of E.N. & M. d. 1877, age 3
Smith, Frederick d. 1888, age 78
     (beside Fredericks's grave he notes several graves with no markers)
Smith, John D. son of F. & L. d. 1869, age 26
Smith, Louesa wife of Frederick d. 1902, age 93
Stickel, H. Amanda 1842-1939
Stickel, James B. son of J.M. & H.A. d. 1871, age 1 month
Stickel, John M. 1830-1898
Stickel, Pearl dau. of
J.M. & H.A. d. 1883, age 3
Stickel, Warren A.
J.M. & H.A. 1868-1914

U
Ulsh, Mary Stickel 1832-1922
Unknown, Elizabeth unreadable


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