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Submitted by Kevin Conrad
The
My wife and I
first visited this cemetery on
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Several days later while searching the Internet for any background information on this cemetery, I stumbled onto a website that provided insight to the reason we found the cemetery overwhelmed in vegetation. This story [or controversy] involved the: Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR), a concerned citizen who has ancestors buried at the cemetery (who is also the County Coordinator for the Indiana Pioneer Cemeteries Restoration Project (INPCRP)); the Nature Conservancy; a Township Trustee and possible others. Basically the controversy concerned the decision to return the cemetery grounds to its “natural state” and annual burning of the cemetery’s grounds. To read more on this particular controversy go to: http://www.rootsweb.com/~inpcrp/barrenscem.html
The cemetery’s property is bordered by three fence-lines on the east, south and west sides. The northern edge of the property is bordered with wooden posts approximately three to four feet tall. To the north, south and east of the cemetery there is a sparse number of urban dwellings. Along and outside the fence-line to the west is a small patch of woods and thick underbrush.
We identified approximately 81 inscribed headstones and a number of graves marked with fieldstones. There were also a number of sunken unmarked graves. As we walked the cemetery multiple fragments of former headstones and/or foot stones were scattered along the ground. Along the west fence we found a small collection of stone markers—apparently used to mark graves at one time.
There were also a number of headstones stained with smoke from when the cemetery was repeatedly burn for vegetation control.
The earliest burial found during our visit
occurred in
Jack Briles, the
Known
Surnames interred at this cemetery
Baur; Beal; Beel; Bottner;
Bower; Byerley; Byerly;
Denhart; Dorr; Ems;
Ernts; Feiock;
Graninger; Grbert;
Hartman; Hendrick; Hendrich;
Herbert; Heuser; Hiibsh;
Hilker; Hiser;
Hittner; Hoffman; Hofmann; Kraninger; Maliss;
Miller; Munch; Richert; Roeder; Schmitthennery; Shafer; Temple; Windisch; Windish.
Headstone
Inscriptions
ROW 1 (east
side of the cemetery)
Conrad BAUR, born
Anna C. BAUR, born
ROW 2
Anna L., daut. of J. & E. DENHART, died Jan. (illegible), 1880, aged 6m, 11d?.
John DENHART, died
Christian, husband of Anna B. WINDISCH,
born
Heinerich SCHMITTHENNERY,
born
[Note: This
headstone is inscribed in German]
Several unmarked graves.
Herbert W., son of G. & L. B. HITTNER,
born
Louis MUNCH, born 1849, died 1928.
Carrie TEMPLE, born
Several unmarked graves.
ROW 3
John HOFFMAN, born
Christina, wife of John HOFFMAN,
born
[Note: This
headstone is inscribed in German]
Louis, son of G. & C. HEUSER,
born
Christopher, son of Jos. & Christina BEAL, died
Joseph H., son of G. & C. HEUSER,
born
John, son of J. & C. MILLER,
died
Carolina F. C., wife of Philip
[Note: This
headstone is inscribed in German]
Louisa K., wife of Wm. HENDRICK,
died
Heinrich C., husb. of
Sophie HENDRICH, born
[Note: This
headstone is inscribed in German]
Sophia M., wife of Henry C. HENDRICH,
born
Augusta, wife of Charles MALISS,
died
Charles, husb of Augusta MALISS, died Mar. 1?, 1874, aged “about 84 years”.
Several unmarked graves.
Barbara FEIOCK, born
Louis FEIOCK,
died
Christiena, wife of
Joseph DORR, born
[Note: This
headstone is inscribed in German]
Catherine, wife of John MILLER, died Aug? 17, 1870, aged 50y, 1m, 8d.
John, husb.
of Catharine MILLER, died
John, husb.
of Mary BYERLY, born
ROW 4
Philip HEUSER, born
Louisa HEUSER, born
Willie G., son of G. & C. WINDISH,
born
William C., son of P. & L. HISER,
born
Mary E. HEUSER, born
Caroline, daughter of Charles & Maria Ann FEIOCK, born ??, died ??
[Note: This
headstone is broken in half. The lower portion inscribed with the dates
is missing]
Louis R., son of C. & K. WINDISH,
born
August, son of Adam HERBERT, died
Fredericke L., wife of
Johan ERNTS, consort of Willelmine BOTTNER, died
Caroline, wife of Lewis FEIOCK,
died
Lewis, consort of Caroline FEIOCK,
died
Barbara, wife of G. WINDISH, died
ROW 5
Marked grave
[Note: This
headstone has broken from the base and is missing. Given its size, this
may be the grave of a child or infant]
Julianna, wife of
David SHAFER, died
David SHAFER, born
Adam HERBERT,
died
[Note: The surname
is not misspelled, the surname is “Hiibsh.”]
Catharine FEIOCK, born
Michael, consort of Catharine FEIOCK,
died
George, son of M. & C. FEIOCK,
born Apr.4, 1847, died
[Note: This
headstone is broken from its base and leaning against the headstone of
Michael Feiock]
George HARTMAN,
died
ROW 6
Marked grave
[Note: This
headstone has broken into multiple small fragments.]
Mary, wife of Michael BYERLEY,
born
Footstone (initials “L.C.F.”)
[Note: This
footstone may have been misplaced ??].
Marked grave
[Note: This
headstone has broken into multiple small fragments.]
Catharine, daughter of J. & C. BEEL,
born
[Note: This age
doesn’t match the inscribed birth and death dates. The age at death
should be about 2y, 11m, 23d].
Anna Maria ROEDER, born 1797,
died
[Note: This
headstone is inscribed in German. She may have been born in
Marked grave (illegible)
[Note: This
headstone is inscribed in German, but is very worn and illegible].
Marked grave (illegible)
[Note: This
headstone is inscribed in German, but is very worn and illegible].
ROW 7
Hein__?___ GRBERT, born (illegible) 15, 1819?, died 1862?, age 14y, 11m, 20d.
[Note: This
headstone is inscribed in German and almost entirely illegible. The
death year may be 1852.]
Joseph, son of J. & C. DORR,
born
Annie M., daughter of J. & C. DORR,
born / died
Christena, daughter of
J. & C. DORR, born
Elizabeth, wife of Charles FEIOCK,
died
Elizabeth, daughter of Charles & Elizabeth FEIOCK, died
Charity, consort of Georg
GRANINGER, born 1795, died
[Note: See later in
this record for the full inscription of this headstone]
Louisa, daughter of M. & C. FEIOCK, born Mar?. 3, 181_?, died Feb. 1, 18__?
Louisa, daughter of L. &
B. FEIOCK, born / died
Reinhart FEIOCK,
died
Charlotte J., daughter of R. W. & M. FEIOCK, born
Willie B., son of P. J. & M. E. FEIOCK,
born
E. L. Katie, daughter of W. R. & M. FEIOCK, born
Zettie A., daughter of
P. J. & M. E. FEIOCK, born
Lourena C., daughter
of R. W. & M. FEIOCK, born
M. Bertha, daughter of W. & M. FEIOCK,
born
Maggie FEIOCK, born 1859,
Reinhard FEIOCK,
born 1859, died 19_ _ (last not given)
[Note: The last two
digits on the year of death is not
engraved].
ROW 8
William M. RICHERT, born 1850, died 1916.
Mary A. RICHERT, born 1851, died 1926.
Daniel R. RICHERT, born
Edmund J. RICHERT, born
Children of Wm. & M. Richert.
George, consort of Charity KRANINGER,
died
Charles FEIOCK, born 1801, died 1861.
Mary Ann, wife of Charles FEIOCK,
born
Michael, son of Charles & Mary Ann FEIOCK,
died
ROW 9
Note: Row 9 is offset to the east from the north end of Row 8. These two rows are separated by about fourteen plots.
John F. HILKER, husband, born
Louisa HILKER, wife, born
ROW 10
Note: There is only one standing fieldstone and one broken/illegible headstone in this row; although there are many fragments of headstones laying on the ground in the row. It is likely there are a number of graves in this row, which are now unmarked.
Marked grave (Fieldstone)
Marked grave (broken and illegible headstone)
WEST
FENCE LINE
Note: About in the middle of the west fence-line, there are approximately 15 grave markers scattered about. It appears someone removed this grave markers from the rows within the cemetery and placed them here.
Examples
of complete headstones inscriptions at this cemetery
Headstone of Heinerich Schmitthennery:
Row 2
Heinerich Schmitthennery
Geb. Den.
25 Juni 1805
Gest. Den
Alter
76 J. 4M & 6T
Headstone of
Christina, wife of John Hofmann: Row 3
Christina Ehefrau von
Johann Hofmann
GeB. Den
Zuhlingenhof Baiern
Gest. Den
28 Febr 1883
Headstone of
Gestobren
Alter
47 Jahr 8 Mo 2 Tage
Headstone of
Heinrich C. wife of Sophia Hendrich: Row 3
Heinrich C.
Gatte Der
Sophie Hendrich
Geb. In. Tenstudt.
Preusen D. 17 Juli 1803
Ges. 21 Dist Feb 1871
Alter 68 Juhre _?_
4 Teg.
Headstone of Christiena, wife of Joseph Dorr: Row 3
Christiena
Gattin von
Joseph Dorr
Geb. d.
Gest. D.
Headstone of
Anna Maria Roeder: Row 6
Anna Maria Roeder Hierrubt (or Hierruht)
Geb. gross
Geb. in
Stermemfels
Konigr. Wurtemberg
1797
Gest. 21 en Dezember
1852
Gewidmet von
Jurenbeiden Sobnen
A. J.R. Roeder
J.J. Roeder
He_ de Jhrersche
(Note: The last line of the above inscription is
virtually illegible)
Headstone of
Charity, consort of Georg Graninger, Row 7
In Memory of
Charity Graninger
Consort of Georg Graninger
Born 1795
decd
Being mother of Three Children