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According to the Salem Cemetery records, it was first read in 1930. The first internment
was about 1830. It states that many, many graves in Salem Cemetery are totaly unmarked.
Thank goodness they read it in 1930! When redocumenting any cemetery, the Fountain County
Genealogy Society always takes a copy of the old readings. Because of weather, vandalism
and "time", many of the stones that were readable years ago, cannot be read now.
We always use the older readings, when the stones cannot be read now. If we do not find
the stones in earlier readings, we still add them to our new records. We will add a note
that there is no longer a stone.
I agree with you that Phillip Rowan is probably buried in this cemetery, but his stone in
now gone.