Randolph County, Indiana
Sparrow Creek Cemetery is located in White River Township of
Randolph County, Indiana. It is 580 yards north of road 200S and
320 yards west of road 500W. It is located at the edge of two
fields and is but a clump of trees about 30 feet in diameter.
Sparrow Creek runs about 100 yards west of the cemetery.
Randolph County, Indiana
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Sparrow Creek Cemetery
White River Township
Randolph County, Indiana
From History of Randolph County, Indiana by Ebenezar Tucker,
1882.
Sparrow Creek (north of Buena Vista; Section 33, Town 20, Range
14). This
graveyard is much out of repair. Few tombstones are found. Daniel
Beals’ grave
is there, who was quite aged. Several Addingtons lie there, but
no gravestones
except Daniel Beals, show an age beyond sixty years. Many graves
appear, but
nearly all have only rough stones, without any mark or definite
token. A
friends’ Meeting House was once here, but it has been gone
for forty years or
more. The cemetery has an old fence around it, but the only way
of access is
through an old field, and it is, perhaps fifty rods from the
highway. (pg 129)
View from the east, July 1991
Sparrow Creek Cemetery Reading
by David V. Addington
The Sparrow Creek Cemetery is located in section 33 of White
River Township
about 3 miles south and 1 mile east of Maxville. It has been
abandoned for
decades and even was reported as such in Tucker's 1882 History of
Randolph
County. It was originally next to a Friends Meeting House which
was built
about 1840 but burned down about a year later. The cemetery is
located on land
originally entered on by Daniel Beals. The cemetery which is
little more than a
small clump of trees is located about 320 yards west of county
road 500W and
about 580 yards north of county road 200S. The author David
Vern Addington,
(ggggrandson of Joseph Addington) and his aunt, Eunice Addington,
visited the
cemetery on 26 October 1990 and found about 12 stones, all
overturned and
many partially buried. The cemetery was again visited in July 1991
and
in August 1994 during the 1994 Addington Reunion.
Two stone spires about 2 feet tall marked the site of
Addington graves. (~ means unreadable)
One stone spire reads:
Side 1 Side
2 Side 3
Side 4
Father
Thomas Elisha
Rachel
Joseph Addington
Addington Eliott
Addington 14th 7th mo
11th 9th mo 13th 10th mo
21st 7th mo 1811
1817
1800
1776
4th 3rd mo
20th 2nd mo
1839
1836 -
- ;;
Stephen
Mother
Addington
Celia
12th 1st mo
Addington
1822
22nd 2nd mo
1st 3rd mo
1785
1839
5th 3rd mo
1852
The 2nd Addington spire reads:
side 1
side 2
Thomas
Mary
son of
his wife
J & E
born
Addington 1M 18. 1786
born
died
12M. 1. 1778
4M. 25. 1846
died
3M. 8. 1839
The remaining individual stones read:
Daniel Beals
Rachel E. Enos
S O
died
dau of
son of
(infant stone
Apr 22, 1856 D & L
Beals D & L Beals
found nearby)
age 71 yr 3 mo died
died
15 days
sep 26, 1851 Dec
10, 1851
age 2 yr 5 mo aged 11
yr 11 mo
5 day 2 day
Jos Oren
Sarah
Zere (or Lera)
Thomas Addington
died
~
~
2nd 17 day 1855
Oct 4, 1838 J.
Oren Daniel
~
aged
aged 43 yr died
~
23 yr 4
mo
3 mo 12 day ~
1833 aged 6 yr 5
mo 18 day
~ 18d
~
Joseph Addington (1776-1836) and Thomas Addington (1778-1839) are
sons of John Addington (1745-1833) and his second wife Elizabeth
Heaton and grandsons of Henry Addington (1720-1787) and his wife
Sarah Burson (1723/26-1826).
Another reading of the cemetery was done and reported in the
“Hoosier
Genealogist”, March 1991 by Thomas D. Hamm.
Sparrow Creek Friends Burying Ground
White River Township, Randolph County, Indiana
Submitted by Thomas D. Hamm*
The long-abandoned Quaker cemetery is located on section 33 of
White River
Township about two miles southeast of Maxville. It is in a clump
of tree in a
field on the west side of County Road 500 West, enclosed by an
old fence. Here
was once the Sparrow Creek Friends Meetinghouse. All of the
tombstones that
could be found were copied 3 November 1990 by Thomas D. Hamm and
Gregory P. Hinshaw. Additional information about some of the
persons buried
there is supplied by Mr. Hamm.
ADDINGTON
Thomas Addington, song of J & E Addington, born 1st Mo. 1,
1788, died 3rd Mo.
8, 1839 [Son of John and Elizabeth]
Mary, wife of Thomas Addington, born 1st Mo. 18, 1786, died 4th
Mo., 25, 1845
[Daughter of Thomas and Mary or Mercy Smith]
Joseph Addington, born 21st of 7th Mo. 1776, died 20th of 2nd
Mo., 1836 [Son of John
and Elizabeth]
Celia Addington, born 22nd of 2nd Mo., 1785, died 5th of 3rd Mo.,
1852 [Wife of Joseph,
daughter of John and Elvira (Cain) Townsend]
Thomas Addington, born 14th of 7th Mo. 1811, no date of death
[Son of Joseph and
Celia]
Elisha Addington, born 11th of 9th Mo. 1817, died 4th of 3rd Mo.
1839 [Son of Joseph
and Celia]
Stephen Addington, born 12th of 1st Mo. 1822, died 1st of 3rd
Mo., 1839 [Son of Joseph
and Celia]
---- Addington, died Ind Mo. 17, 1855 aged 23y, 4m, 8d [stone
broken]
BEALS
Daniel Beals, died Apr. 22, 1856, aged 71y, 8m, 15d {Son of Jacob
and Elizabeth (John)
Beals. Married his cousin, Katharine Bales, born 3-28-1790, died
12-10-1874, buried at
Chester in Wayne County, daughter of Daniel and Susannah
(Jackson) Bales.]
Zeri, son of Daniel and Levinah Beals, died Jan. 28, 1864, aged
6y, 5m, 18d. [Daniel
Beals, son of Daniel and Katherine (Bales) Beals, married Levinah
Hiatt in Randolph
County, 24 December 1848.]
Enos, son of D & L Beals, died 10 Oct 1851, aged 1y, 11m, 2d.
Rachel E., daughter of D & L Beals, died Sept, 16, 1851, aged
7m, 5d.
ELLIOT
Rachel Elliot, born 18th of 19th Mo., 1810, no date . {Daughter
of Joseph and Celia
(Townsend) Addington, married 3 November 1828, in Wayne County,
Seth Elliot.]
OREN
Joseph Oren, died Oct. 4, 1838, aged 49y, 6m, 17d.
Sarah, wife of Joseph Oren, died March 16, 1837, aged 46y, 7m,
16d.
PUCKETT
Henry Puckett, Dec 3rd of 2nd Mo. 1841. {Perhaps son of Richard
and Susannah (Beals)
Puckett, born 2nd Mo. 1, 1841.]
One fragment of a stone was found; all that remained was ---m,.
16d.
*Thomas D. Hamm, a member of the Family History Committee of the
Indiana Historical
Society, is an archivist at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana.
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