A posting earlier this year to this website contains the following
information. The index of Ohio County Cemeteries shows no legible stones for the names
you listed.
Bear Creek Cemetery
east side of Mexico Ridge Road about 50 yards from Laughery Creek
about 100 yards downstream from the Watts or Hart Cemetery
mostly washed away by floods over the last century
2 or 3 stones may remain near the creek bank
The legible headstones of those buried in Ohio County, Indiana have been
exhaustively recorded and listed in Ohio County Cemeteries by Dillon R. Dorrell,
Sr. As of this writing, an index of that book is nearing completion. The Road
Map of Ohio County will speed your travels and help avoid getting lost. All
three are available at:
Ohio County Historical Society
212 S. Walnut Street Rising Sun, IN 47040
812 438-4915
www.ohiocountyinmuseum.org
Sadly, despite the heroic efforts of Mr. Dorrell in the last half of the 20th
century to reclaim many old cemeteries from the ravages of time, the resting
places of many of the earliest settlers in the area have faded from view and
are forever lost. Many stones have crumbled with age. Some have been washed
away by the floodwaters of the Ohio or of Laughery Creek, and some were just in
the way of plows or "progress".
John S. Dorrell
Indianapolis