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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Kreps" <mjkreps(a)gmail.com>
To: "inpcrp" <inpcrp(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 11:39 AM
Subject: [INPCRP] Robert Watkins/ Granville Cemetery
Anyone from Tippecanoe County can update me on this Granville
Cemetery?
See
article below.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Betty Cummings <bceagleeyes(a)yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 11:17 PM
Subject: Robert Watkins/ Granville Cemetery
To: Mark Kreps <mjkreps(a)gmail.com>
Hi Mark,
So glad to hear from you concerning my ancestor, Robert Watkins. I am
going to attach a couple of links for you to look at, the 1st is from the
Find-a-Grave website where I found the beautiful picture of Robert Watkins
headstone. The 2nd site is a great story with photos that I found about
the
Granville Cemetery. As you can see from this story, someone has apparently
been trying to get some help to clean up and maintain this small old
pioneer
cemetery, but without much luck. Perhaps with your organizations help we
can
find someone or a group to help restore this cemetery, and maintain it, to
provide dignity to those buried there.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Watkins&GSf...
&
http://www.har-indy.com/granville_cemetery.html
Thank you for all of your help,
Betty Cummings
--- On *Sun, 1/31/10, Mark Kreps <mjkreps(a)gmail.com>* wrote:
From: Mark Kreps <mjkreps(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Robert Watkins
To: bceagleeyes(a)yahoo.com
Date: Sunday, January 31, 2010, 9:55 PM
Compatriot HItchhock, Betty, Norma and Tom,
Yes, Robert Watkins has a marker at Beechgrove Cemetery since he had
been reportedly buried in Delaware County. I haven't researched
Robert, but it certainly appears Betty has. The Delaware County
Historian Norma Lasley and Regent of the Paul Revere Chapter, has been
doing some research on Rev. War Soldiers so I will included her as
well in this response. Perhaps she has done research on Robert
Watkins.
I did do some cemetery restoration in the old Truitt Cemetery this
past summer with the Liberty Township Trustee, Brian Dudley and his
son. There are some founding members Liberty Township buried within.
No Watkins that I ran across there. I always assumed that the old
Truitt farm was bordering this cemetery. There are a couple of Civil
War soldiers buried from wounds received from the Battle of Gettyburg
there in Truitt Cemetery.
We'll see what Norma's input is on this Robert Watkins. I would love
to see a picture of Robert Watkins marker in Tippecanoe Co. Norma may
have more information on his wives and children. I'm including Tom
Schnuck in this information since he is the Supt. of BeechGrove
Cemetery and is interested in the subject as well.
Patriotically yours,
Mark Kreps
On 1/31/10, Edward Hitchcock
<edward.hitchcock@sbcglobal.net<http://us.mc366.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=edward.hitchcock@sbcglobal.net>>
wrote:
> Hi Mark:
>
> You probably got this email earlier, but I am sending it to you again.
> Will you check to see if this Robert Watkins is buried in Delaware
> County. The Waters Book said he is buried on the east side of the
> Muncie-Selma Rd. (Zelma Turnpike) about a halft mile south of the John
> Truitt homestead. Do you know where the Truitt homestead is located?
> The book said this patriot was born in Maryland.
>
> Some information was provided by Mary Wimmer Young, Paul Revere Chapter
> DAR, Muncie, Indiana. The descendant listed below said he is buried in
> Tippecanoe County, IN.
>
> Will you check this out? There may be a Waters Book in the library at
> Muncie. Will you contact the descendant about this.
>
> Thanks in advance for checking this out.
>
> Ed Hitchcock
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Fwd: Patriot Graves]
> Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:00:56 -0500
> From: Steve Oberlin
>
<steve@oberlins.com<http://us.mc366.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=steve@oberlins.com>
>
> Organization:
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> To:
>
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>
>
>
> Gentlemen - Will one of you please respond to Ms. Cummings?
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Patriot Graves
> Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:11:52 -0800 (PST)
> From: Betty Cummings
>
<bceagleeyes@yahoo.com<http://us.mc366.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=bceagleeyes@yahoo.com>
>
> To:
>
contact@inssar.org<http://us.mc366.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=contact@inssar.org>
>
>
>
> Hello. I'm writing because I have some information you may be interested
> in concerning a Robert Watkins that fought for SC in the Revolutionary
> War and is buried in Indiana. You have him listed as buried in Delaware
> County. Actually, you have him listed as burial place unknown, so a
> memorial marker was placed in Delaware County. Robert Watkins is
> actually buried in Tippecanoe County in Granville Cemetery. This is the
> same Robert Watkins, as I have traced the family history. Robert Watkins
> was my g-g-g-g-g-grandfather. Robert did live in Delaware County for
> many years, but before 1840 he moved to Tippecanoe County with at least
> one of his sons, Benjamin Franklin Watkins. Robert's tombstone reads
> "Robert Watkins, Died Dec. 6, 1845, Aged 91 yrs., 1 mo., 16 days". This
> date and age would make him born in 1754. I do have a photo of Roberts
> tombstone that I found on the internet, if you'd be interested I could
> send it to you.
> Oh, I noticed you have some information regarding Roberts whereabouts
> before he came to Indiana. All my sister and I have been able to find is
> that he did enlist in SC where he said he was living at the time (in his
> pension application). We are still trying to determine where he was born
> (son, Benjamin, said father born in MD), who his parents were, wives,
> dates and places of marriages (pretty sure there was more than 1). If
> you have any information you could share, even where in KY and Ohio he
> lived, I would truly appreciate it.
> Thank you so much, and please let me know if you need any more
> information from me.
> Betty Cummings
> Watkins Descendant in Indiana
>
>
>
> --
> "Every true Christian is a patriot."
> - John Frederic Oberlin, 1792
>
>
>
>
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