Re: Neal Cemetery
by Martin & Melinda Meadows
Just found the following old note from researcher Don Matson in an
e-mail folder:
"The cemetery where Samuel & Abigail Neal are buried was on their
homeplace & is in Section 22 of Washington Twp. I just have it listed as
Neal Cem. in my Monroe Co. cemetery listings. I was there years ago
about 1969 & I walked to it up a creek bed in Payne Hollow & where the
creek forks, there is a medium high hill inbetween the fork & up on this
hill is where the old house was as evidence of yucca plants & old
flowers could be seen. Could not find any stones with inscriptions, but
there were 6 to 8 field stones lying flat that had no inscriptions. When
I got back home, I asked my neightbor Wayne Robinson who was raised in
that area in 1920's & 30's & he remembered seeing stones that had name
Neal on them & he thought someone had maybe pushed them down the hill &
into the creek, but he didn't know for sure. I climbed up that hill from
the creek & I didn't see any stones. Think there is a housing
developement there no, so don't know just what it would look like now,
but think if we could find the creek fork & hill, we would be in the
right area."
Hope this is helpful ... but I think it just confuses the issue.
Marty
wmmahan wrote:
> If Samuel Neal was buried in Washington Twp. Sec 22.....I was told in about 1989 that the stones had been moved to Hindustan Cemetery.....Something about the man that was taking care of them could no longer do it and wanted them where the "stones" would be cared for....My son and I drove to the end of where the road was passable and he walked on in . the found what he thought was the site and said you could see signs of graves...flowers growing and indentation but no stone.....It was a good walk from where the road stopped....
> That is my "two cents worth" Diana Stout-Mahan
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