It is always fun to find a different cemetery to explore. Even more so when you find very different tombstones than you normally see. This was the case at the Ross Cemetery in Decatur County, Indiana. Three stones were apparently hand inscribed in wet concrete at some late date, with names and birth/death dates. These might be replacement stones.
Hand inscribed name/dates
Two additional hand made “stones”
This cemetery also has other oddities. There are two different granite stones that serve as listings of others interned here, many are family groupings. The back side of one of these also proudly lists military veterans who are resting in this lovely country cemetery.
Lists of burials in Ross Cemetery
A listing of vets buried here
21 year old killed in action 1862
There are many interesting stones at Ross Cemetery. What is fascinating is the range of size and quality of gravestones. Some are large and beautifully made. Others are simply what appear to be just rocks stuck in the ground. Family names are seen across many different stones, and dates of internments start in 1845 and according to a date on gate arches stopped in 1979.
Variety of marker size, quality clearly seen
Another view of the peaceful cemetery
Cemetery entrance gates
The historic Ross Cemetery can be found south of New Point in Decatur County, Indiana. It on the southwest corner of the intersection of E Co. Road 300 South and S Co Road 850 East. The gate is on 300 South and there is parking on the side of the road.
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I ran across some of those handmade gravestones in a rural Mississippi cemetery–first time I had ever seen them.
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You could tell these were made laying flat in a frame, then the writing scratched in with a stick, just like kids writing their name in a wet sidewalk. We’d never seen them before. The material looked similar to a Quick-crete type of product.
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Inter, not intern.
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Oops, pardon my typo.
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Fascinating, especially the 1812 veterans!
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Thanks! Agree and was able to find one of those vet’s graves. The stones seem to speak often…
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Great piece – thanks. Some of my relatives are in a cemetery like that – I don’t know about the hand carved stones though. And they only go back to 187? because the location is in ND.
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I don’t know when the hand made stones were made, the oldest graves in this Ross cemetery were 1845. Your relatives were from North Dakota? Quite a lot was happening in the Dakotas in the 1870’s!
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Fascinating! We have an old cemetery at the end of our road. They are the families of early settlers and many are children who did not survive a winter. I find the hand carved stones in your post amazing. Never seen anything like them before.
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Thank you very much Anne. Glad you enjoyed the post. The old family plots are so fascinating, glad you have one close by.
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In those days you simply made them yourself. Really interesting.
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Thank, Tim
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Very interesting!
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Thank you guys!
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Fascinating. Those inscribed without the aid of stonemasons add themselves to the history
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Well said, Derrick. Theirs was a labor of love.
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I have occasionally wandered in cemeteries but have not noticed oddities like the ones you presented. Makes you think.
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My first thought on these were that they were replacement headstones or first time made. Could not find any records of them.
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