Where born: IN Married: ca 1889 Marion Shafer (Jul 1863 OH) Lived at: 1900 Lick Prairie 1910 Mt Carmel Children: - Clyde (10 Sep 1889 Leavenworth IN-10 Oct 1957 Houston TX; m: 29 Sep 1916 Muskogee OK Jane Jones {ca 1892}; RR conductor; buried Kingsville Cem Kingsville TX) -
Leslie (2 Nov 1891 Pilot Knob IN-8 Aug 1970 Valley Falls KS; buried Leavenworth Natl Cem - Leavenworth KS; m: 12 Dec 1925 Tulsa OK Ella A Wiggins) -
Mattie (Jan 1895 IL) -
Ervie V (Apr 1896 IL) -
Leora F (Dec 1898 IL) -
Myrtle V (ca 1902 IL)
* indicates buried with Lena A Shafer in Sand Hill Cemetery.
About Sand Hill Cemetery:
Sand Hill Cemetery is the oldest large cemetery in Mt Carmel IL, predating Highland Memorial Cemetery and Rose Hill Cemetery. There was no subdivision of lots in Sand Hill Cemetery. People were buried in the order of their death. New burials were prohibited in Sand Hill Cemetery after 1932. Burials: 1254 Location: 730 West 3rd Street, Mt Carmel, Illinois - Wabash County
