Hobson Cemetery
New Castle, Henry County, Indiana, USA
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New Castle, Indiana 47362 United StatesCoordinates: 39.93057, -85.37536 - Cemetery ID:
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Add PhotosMartin L. Powell, writing in the New Castle Weekly Courier in July of 1903. The cemetery seems to have received very little care and as early as 1888 "The old graveyard where so many pioneers lie buried is now a tangle of brambles and weeds, the tumbled headstones standing like sentinels above a sea of ruin, while the winds ruffles the billowing sea of grass above the deserted graves." In 1903 there was a movement to remove the burials here to South Mound. It was defeated by the City Council for legal reasons, and because it was estimated that it would cost less to restore and provide for the upkeep of the cemetery that to remove the burials. By 1915, however, the Hobson Cemetery had disappeared. There is no record of any burials being removed. There were over 100 burials at this cemetery.
The records were provided by Richard P. Ratcliff and were found in Cemetery Records of Henry and Jefferson Townships of Henry County, IN.
Martin L. Powell, writing in the New Castle Weekly Courier in July of 1903. The cemetery seems to have received very little care and as early as 1888 "The old graveyard where so many pioneers lie buried is now a tangle of brambles and weeds, the tumbled headstones standing like sentinels above a sea of ruin, while the winds ruffles the billowing sea of grass above the deserted graves." In 1903 there was a movement to remove the burials here to South Mound. It was defeated by the City Council for legal reasons, and because it was estimated that it would cost less to restore and provide for the upkeep of the cemetery that to remove the burials. By 1915, however, the Hobson Cemetery had disappeared. There is no record of any burials being removed. There were over 100 burials at this cemetery.
The records were provided by Richard P. Ratcliff and were found in Cemetery Records of Henry and Jefferson Townships of Henry County, IN.
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- Added: 11 Jan 2014
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2526461
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