The Ham Family cemetery is located in the northeast quarter of Section 24, township 4 South, Range 3 East about three and one/half miles south of Corydon on the James Wiseman Farm in Harrison township, Harrison County, Indiana.
Mr. Wiseman estimated that there were over thirty buried there before he bought the farm. Mr. Benton Windell furnished this information which he and Mr. Wiseman copied from the few remaining stones in March 1967.

DAVID HAM: born March 23, 1772 died 1817
David Ham homesteaded this farm on which the cemetery is located, but the deed was not recorded until 1823 after his death.

ABSALOM CHENOWITH: born April 7, 1774 died June 21, 1837

RHODA: born April 11, 1785 died Feb. 16, 1857
Wife of David Ham, married second to Charles Blythe and third to Absalom Chenowith.
David Ham married Rhoda last name unknown before coming to Indiana. Rhoda Ham widow of David Ham married charles Blythe August 6, 1819 marriage performed by Joseph NcMahan, their daughter Nancy Ann Blythe married Farquar McRae. Rhoda Ham Blythe married Absalom Chenowith on December 30, 1834.
Charles Blythe, Rhoda's second husband died in 1823 and is buried in the blythe Cemetery in Harrison Township.

JOHN SHUCK: died 1832 age 4 years old
Son of John and Mahalia (nee.Ham) Shuck

PATRICK BIRD: born 1793 died July 29, 1828
He homesteaded the 160 acres just east of the Ham farm, Patrick Bird married Mary Petete on January 29, 1823 according to the Harrison county Marriage Records.


(This information was contributed by Mrs. Clarence C. Gresham Bucklin, Kansas)




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