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Roswell, Johnson Family Cemetery

Located in Johnson Twp., one mile west of the Bethel Church Cemetery
and about three miles southeast of Versailles, Ind.Cemetery.



THANK YOU,
Jim & Lu Mahoney, of Florida, for entering these interments for use here.

NAME DoB DoD Misc
Red text submitted by Patricia M. Mullen
BUCHANAN, Martha Ann
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25 Dec 1837
d/o George & Mary Buchanan
aged 9 yr 7 mon 27 days
BUCHANAN, Mary Johnson
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08May1831
w/o George Buchanan, d/o Roswell Johnson
aged 23 yr 2 mon 3 days
BUCHANAN, George
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17 May 1828
aged 23 yr
JOHNSON, Roswell
14 Aug 1769
17 Jul 1837
aged 67 yr 11 mon 3 days
Supposedly a Drummer Boy in the Revolution.
During the War of 1812, he was a private attached to Swifts and Dobbins Regiment, New York Volunteers in 1814
JOHNSON, Mary 'Polly'
03 Feb 1778
10 Aug 1844
w/o Roswell Johnson
aged 66 yr 5 monn 8 days
JOHNSON, Erastus L.
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15 Mar 1862
s/o J. W. & Malinda Johnson
PREBLE, James M.
17 Jul 1844
22 Dec 1862
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This Cemetery is located on the William & Clemency Preble Johnson farm, later owned by Dick Gray.
The markers from which the above inscriptions were copied, have been removed from the graves on the Johnson Farm and placed around the marker erected by the Ripley Co., Ind. Historical Society in memory of Roswell Johnson, the first treasurer of Ripley County at the Bethel Church Cemetery.

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