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Woodlawn Cemetery |
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Woodlawn Cemetery |
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Cemetery transcription by members of the Jacksonville
Area
Genealogical and Historical Society
No known burials remain in this former cemetery, which was
used
as a burial ground for the family of Michael Huffaker. He received the
land patent for this land from the government of the United States of
America
on March 6, 1824. When the land was sold out of the family many years
later
the new owner insisted the burials be removed. Those bodies interred in
Woodlawn Cemetery were then removed to Jacksonville Diamond Grove
Cemetery.
A description of Woodlawn Cemetery survives in a Huffaker family
history.
The cemetery was across the road and south of the house of Michael
Huffaker,
which he had built himself even making his own bricks. The house is
still
occupied in 1974. The cemetery was so situated that he could sit on his
front porch and see the hallowed ground, which was enclosed by a white
fence. An arched gateway, covered with roses, served as the entrance. A
large weeping willow tree seemed to protect the several graves with
their
white tombstones. The cemetery was on high ground just north of the
North
Fork Mauvaisterre Creek and on the east side of a road. It was about .8
of a mile northeast of Arnold. Legal description of the cemetery site
was
the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of Section 19 in
Township
15 N Range 9 W.
* = No Stone Found
** = Soldier
Words in brackets [ ] or parenthesis ( )are not
on
stone.
| Known Burials Formerly Here: | Birth | Death | Other or Notes | Veteran? | Donated By | Obit? |
| Grassly, Mary | 5 Yr 4 Mo | 9 Sept 1878 | ||||
| Huffaker, Frances Jane (Smith) | April 1883 | Wife of Michael Huffaker (She married Mr. Huffaker in 1834. She was a grand niece of President James Monroe.) |
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| Huffaker, Jane (Bartleston) | 1833 | Wife of Michael Huffaker (She married Mr. Huffaker in Kentucky in 1822. She died in the fall of 1833 as a result of giving birth to their seventh child, Jennie. Michael & Jane Bartleston were married 25 July 1822 in Wayne Co., Ky. by Henry Tuggle. Surety, William Bartleston. Jane Bartleston Huffaker is believed to have been a dau. of Wm. & Margaret Green Bartleston of Wayne Co., Ky.) |
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| Huffaker, Michael | 9 Apr 1883 | (He died 2 days before the death of his second wife, Frances Jane.) |
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