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Surnames: Smith
Classification: Query
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Benjamin Smith is buried in the Powell Cemetery in Hamblen
Twp, of Brown County, IN.
Pg. 26; The transcription reads thus:
"Smith, Benjamin - Her first husband - Apr 27, 1818 - Apr 10, 1864. Erected
by David A. Dyne - in memory of his Mother" On same stone with Jane Stitt
Smith Dyne.
On Pg 25 is Jane:
"Dyne, Jane Stitt Smith - Sept 2, 1832 - Nov 24, 1898. Erected by David A.
Dyne - in Memory of his Mother"
On same stone with Benjamin Smith.
The Powell Cemetery is also known as the Wilkerson
or Wilkinson Cemetery. It was recorded on 14 Nov. 1973 by Kenneth J. Reeve &
Helen H. Reeve for the Brown County, Indiana Cemeteries Book, published by
the Brown County Historical Society, Inc. Nashville, Indiana in 1977.
The Powell Cemetery is located in the SE 1/4 of Section 9; Township 9N;
Range 4E. The east edge of the cemetery is the Brown County/Bartholomew
County line. A remote, old, neglected cemetery in the woods with no access
road, three quarters of a mile from the nearest county road. There are many
unmarked graves, graves marked by uninscribed fieldstones and others marked
by crude stones with initials only.
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Bonnie Barfuss