SAMPSON NATION, SR. 1775-1825

According to the Henry County, Indiana Genealogical Services website, http://www.hcgs.net, Sampson Nation was buried in what is now a little long-abandoned burial ground located in Dudley Township in Henry County, IN, just south of CR #500 south, in section #7, on the Bennett and Esther Mills property. It has most likely not received any care of any kind since the late 19th century; it has been completely abandoned and forgotten.

Very few people are even aware of this place so it will eventually disappear forever in a few years, but its location will at least be recorded in Henry County and State DNR cemetery records.

This burial ground was most likely started by the family of Sampson Nation who died in 1825, according to county probate records, and his wife Susannah Johnson, who followed two years later and was also buried here.

Here is a list of the people buried in what is now known as the Herr Farm Cemetery, established in the 1820s:

Nation, Alice 17 Sep 184523 Jul 1943Died of Diptheria Nation, Sampson * 29 Jul 18251775 Nation, Susannah Johnson * c1827c1777Wife of Sampson Rhoads, Catherine 31 Aug 187378y, 10m, 3dW of John Rhoads, John 14 Oct 185869y, 10m, 7d White, Anna 1 Sep 186269y, 4dW of William

According to the Dudley township cemetery inscriptions book, one Nathaniel Leonard was buried here also, but he wasn't, he was buried in the old Baptist cemetery about 200 yards south. The gravedigger who disinterred the remains of Nathaniel and reburied them at New Lisbon knows where the remains had been buried.

This information is given thanks to Tom Hamm and UEB (see http://www.hcgs.net/herrfarm.html).