Morning Listers,
I don't see anyone in the Green County area, but maybe someone
on this list will knows who could help. This lady is from Texas and
wanting a clean up of an old over grown cemetery.
Can anyone offer suggestions?
LA
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From: dndougherty@web-1hosting.net<mailto:dndougherty@web-1hosting.net>
To: clugh_la@msn.com<mailto:clugh_la@msn.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 8:00 PM
Subject: Fwd: Old Samarian Cemetery
To Whom it may consern:
My name is Sibyl Dougherty and I happened across your web site searching for my
husband's family in Indiana I found some pictures of tombstones of some of the
Dougherty famiy and asked the person who posted them where they were located so that I
could take my own pictures and check the cemetery for other family members. The person
who has the web site could only tell me that the cemetery was in Dugger, IN (in Greene
Co). We live in Texas and my In-laws just happened to be going on vaction in Indiana and
told me they would take the time to check the cemeteries in Dugger. They spent 2 days
looking it and were not able to locate the tombstones in any of the cemerteries in Dugger.
After they came back to Texas some friends of theirs, Baty and Diane Therune, took up the
search for them. After many months of talking to people, someone told them about the Old
Samarian Cemetery. The cemetery is located about 1/4 mile south of the Old Samarian
Church in a field. They talked to the owner of the property, a 90 year old man name
Bartley and he gave them perssion to enter his property to see the cemetery. Bartley said
no one had been out to the Cemetery since 1970. (Which is probably when the picture I
found on the internet were taken.) There is no road or passable path leading to the
Cemetery from the Samarian Church and they had to cut across Bartley's field and
underbrush to get to it. They did finally find the Cemetery and had to uncover many
tombstones (that are now laying down and covered with dirt) to find the family members I
was looking for. I am attaching the photos of the tombstones I found on the internet and
also the ones the Therunes took so that you can see the terrible conditions they are in.
I am not sure if you will be able to help this cemetery but possibly you might know who to
contact someone who can. It is a real shame that these pioneers of Indiana (Relatives to
Capt. John Dougherty/Daugherty of Ogange Co.) have been forgotten in such a manner. My
mother -in-law asked me how we might be able to clean the stones if we are ever back
there, but I am was not sure how the process of this works.
Once again thank you for your time and I hope that this cemetery can be saved.
Sibyl Dougherty
155 CR 3794
Cleveland, TX 77328
281-432-0907