Brown County, IN
(Posted on INBROWN-L by Sandra Mathis Gaither)
From I-65 take State Road 46 West towards
Nashville. You will turn Right
onto Salt Creek Road off of State Road
46 , which is right across from the
Salt Creek Golf Course. There will be
a NAPA on one corner and a Bigfoot Gas
Station on the other corner. This
will approx. 13 miles and if you get to
the Brown County State Park you went to
far.
Follow Salt Creek Road until it ( T's
), here you will be in Gatesville and
you will see the Fire Department, turn
right and you will go over a bridge,
you will then come to a ( Y ) and you
will go straight, then over another
bridge. The Cemetery will be approx.
1/4 mile farther and will be on the
left side of the road.
TAGGART CEMETERY, Hamblen Township, Brown
County, Indiana
Recorded: May 4, 1973
Location: Northeast Quarter of Section
36; Township 10 North; Range 3 East.
Situated on a hill about 600 feet North
of Gatesville Road at a point 1/2
mile east of its junction with Sweetwater
Trail.
A very old Cemetery, inscriptions on stones
recording death dates as early as
1833. Within the cemetery is a circle
of stones surrounding a marker which
reads: "Chimney stack marks where stood
first school house and church (U.B.)
built (1837) in Brown County. Marker
by A.P. Hamblen, 1935" James Taggart
bought land from the U.S.A. in this Section
in 1828. There are many unmarked
graves and some with uninscribed fieldstones.
In the Taggart Cemetery there are the following Curry's:
David H. Curry - Died December 29, 1883,
Age 32 years, 6 months, 2 days
Effie C. Curry - Died August 2, 1875,
Age 1 year, 2 months, 10 days
Eliakim Curry - CO. D. 82 Indiana Infantry
(Civil War Sheild Stone)
Elias W. Curry - Died March 2, 1881, Age
66 years, 11 months, 15 days.
Elijah M. Curry - Died March 1, 1868,
Age 52 years, 5 months, 1 day
James W. Curry - Died October 12, 1874,
Age 31 years, 2 months, 21 days.
Lucinda Curry - Born January 24, 1817,
Died July 16, 1899
Nancy Curry - Deid December 21, 1850,
Age 77 years, 6 months
Salley Curry - Died January 25, 1840,
Age 10 days
William J. Curry - February 7, 1891, Age
17 years, 3 days
There is also the following Hamblen's
Alfred Emmett Hamblen - Born October 27,
1879, Died August 25, 1942
Armilda Hamblen - March 19, 1862, Died
December 6, 1877
Bartholomew Hamblen - Born 1841, Died
1881
Charles M. Hamblen - Died January 5, 1865,
Age 2 months, 14 days
David L. Hamblen - Died September 19,
1868, Age 26 years, 1 month, 15 days
Infant Hamblen - Died December 24, 1863
David R. Hamblen - Born September 22,
1809, Died February 19, 1893
Eliakim Hamblen - Died July 29, 1852,
Age 56 years, 3 days
Eliakim Hamblen - Died April 22, 1898,
Age 65 years, 6 months
Elizabeth Hamblen - Died March 29, 1904,
Age 76 years, 4 days
Emly J. Hamblen - Died May 31, 1866, Age
22 years, 3 months, 27 days
Fanny Hamblen - Born November 24, 1844,
Died April 3, 1930
George Hamblen - Co. K 13 Kentucky Calvery.
C.S.A.
Jesse Hamblen - Died September 21, 1886,
Age 75 years, 8 months, 12 days
Mille Hamblen - Born April 3, 1827, Died
November 15, 1903
Children of Jesse Hamblen & Millie
Hamblen
1.) John Hamblen - No Dates
2.) Lusanna Hamblen - No Dates
3.) Elizabeth C. Hamblen - No Dates
4.) Susan Hamblen - No Dates
5.) Addie O. - No Dates
John G. Hamblen - Died December 24, 1883,
Age 71 years, 6 days
John W. Hamblen - Born July 11, 1844,
Died August 31, 1870
Lucretia Hamblen - Born 1850, Died 1887
Mary Hamblen - Died March 12, 1873, Age
90 years, 1 month
Milly Hamblen - Died September 29, 1846.
Age 35 years, 8 months, 8 days
Nancy Hamblen - Born July 18, 1788, Died
July 25, 1878
Nancy Hamblen - Died July 20, 1894, Age
76 years, 4 months
Pleasant Hamblen - Born June 1, 1808,
Died February 16, 1874
Rachel Hamblen - Died November 14, 1849,
Age 36 years, 3 days
Robert M. Hamblen - Born June 16, 1839,
Died December 13, 1913
Ruth Hamblen - Born August 1, 1813, Died
August 7, 1874
Sarah Hamblen - Died October 4, 1862,
Age 1 year, 1 month, 25 days
Sorilda Hamblen - No Dates
Uriah Hamblen -Died August 4, 1863 (Only
Date)
Wm. Hamblen - CO. E. 3rd Indiana Infantry,
Mexican War, Methodist Minister.
Wm. Hamblen - CO. C. 34 IA. Infantry.
(Civil War Shield Stone)