Steve,
I have received a copy of your request for a knowledgable contact for
information on Fairmount Cemetery, (North) Madison, IN.
In the event that you don't get another good response, here is mine. It
will be well worth it, except for the short notice.
The Sexton of Fairmount is Tom and Wilma Champion, whose mailing address
is 800 Michigan Road, Madison, IN 47259. Phone # 812-265-4701
If you will not have time available to chance written correspondence,
perhaps you can call them????
I am not familiar with WHERE the 800 block is, but Michigan Road is the
name of the street (road) which runs right by Fairmount Cemetery so they
aren't too far distant from the Cemetery.
Let me know if you DO NOT know driving instructions to Fairmount. I can
give you that.
I went to Fairmount to search for the graves of my g-gparents in June,
1996. William Henry & Lydia (Stoner) Harrison (Sr.) Their obits stated
that they were both there, but I did not find them. About 3 years later
another researcher of persons buried in Fairmount shared with this same
Mailing list that they had been able to contact Tom and/or Wilma Champion
at the above address and that they had assisted them with the location of
their kin's graves. The Champions DO HAVE the plot records!
I wrote to the Champions and explained my disappointment in having not
located my Ggparents' graves and asked for their help. They went to the
cemetery, took pictures of the markers and sent them to me! They even
filled in some information that was in their records but not on one of
the stones!
While I had walked the cemetery from front to back, I had not discovered
that their markers were in Row #1, right next to the road! I guess that
my eyes were not focused as I had to have passed by their markers.
Again, if you need driving instructions to Fairmount, let me know. There
is an excellent set of maps of all of the Jefferson Co Cemeteries on file
at the Madison, Jefferson Co Library, and Fairmount is clearly marked on
the map. There are several cemeteries (I count NINE) located right next
to one another as the result of complete cemeteries having been moved
from Monroe Township to allow for the construction of the Military
Proving Grounds. I do NOT know if Fairmount is in its original location
or not, but I suspicion that it was one of the first there and the
others were moved next to it.
Without the knowledge of the defined perimeter of Fairmount, you could
potentially walk out of one cemetery into another!
William A. "Bill" Harrison MRBIL1(a)JUNO.COM
Chairman of the Coles Co, IL Genealogical Society's "Pioneer Certificate
Project"
Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the Silas Kyle Sims
Foundation
Sponsor of the STONER and SCHNORF mailing lists on Rootsweb