Newest Stones: Last Burial 1999
Fender Commemorative Stone 2005

Project Status: We continue to work on mapping, transcriptions, cleaning , and resetting
fallen and leaning stones. We are still searching for original records for the
cemetery. Pieces of buried tombstones have been found and will be re-
paired and returned to their rightful place whenever possible.

There are 257 known graves. Four of them are marked with field stone or
flat rock. There are unknown burials, which were not listed in Beverly
Yount's transcriptions. Twenty- two graves from Beverly Yount's tran-
scriptions have not yet been identified. Twenty -one footstones were
moved out of place in the past. They are being returned to their graves.
Two stones are missing or moved since the project began.

2002- Cleared old tree limbs. Dug up out of control yucca.

2003-Removed scrub brush - begin search for records - Samuel Meek's stone is reset

2004 - Overgrown brush removed around the Wood Family monument.
Begin returning footstones to actual graves. Begin transcriptions.
Trustee removes damaged trees, mulberry, and weeds.
Several stones cleaned.

2005- Henry and Elizabeth Long Fender's stones are cleaned and reset.
Several stones cleaned.
A commemorative stone for Henry and Elizabeth Long Fender is set by the
Fender Blenders, a national online family group. ( Littleton Fender's name is
misspelled on the stone).
Several stones are scraped or chipped by the lawnmower.

2006-Trustee repaired and painted the front fence after a car ran off the road.
Stones for Larana Stinson and Mattie J.Gregg are professionally restored
by John Walters and Kelly Luke of Graveyard Groomer Cemetery Restoration.
Brush and mulberry roots removed around the Wood monument.
Stones cleaned. Sarah Jones's stone cleaned and reset. A military marker is
damaged by a lawnmower...

2007- The Trustee put up a fence on the south side of the cemetery to keep ATVs out.
Meek family stone is knocked over by a dead tree limb,& is put up again.The
Trustee had dead and dying trees cut down.

2008 -The Meek Family stone marking the graves of Guliema, Joseph, and William
Meek is professionally restored by John and Micki Walters. A mass of yucca is
removed. The base for Elizabeth Myer's stone is reset. The stones for Moses II
and Elizabeth Long Robbins, John M. Sweet, and Samuel and Mary Sell are
professionally restored by John Walters and Kelly Luke.

Permission: Granted by Abington Township Trustee Karen Minnix and the Abington
Township Board

Many Thanks to our retired Trustee Don Schwab and his wife Donna.
Thanks to Tim Benner for updating this website.

Professional Restoration by Graveyard Groomer Cemetery Restoration of Connersville , IN. 765-825-7313 [email protected]

Volunteers: Theresa Berghoff Betty Meek Dils Don Dils
Dave Berghoff Tara Kinder

The Fender Blenders pictured at the setting of the commemorative stone for Henry and Elizabeth Long Fender l to r Steve Fender, Russell Fender, Karl Jaeckel, Theresa Berghhoff, Eulalie Chapel, Len Chapel, Lewis Fender

Transcriptions for this cemetery can be found in "Tombstone Inscriptions in Wayne County, Indiana" Vol. II, Beverly Yount, Fort Wayne Allen County Public Library,1968 Additional information Vol. IV

** Help us with this mystery. There is a stone simply marked CLAUDE across the top. There is not a Claude mentioned in the transcriptions.

Burials missed in Beverly Yount's transcriptions:
Johnson Robbins d. 2-18-1879 aged 69y 1m 15d
Benjamin Williams d. 12-18-1849 age 53y 9mo 5d
Otha B. Williams son of B. & M. Williams d. 9-13-1831 age 1y 2mo 26d
Johnathan Wilson d. 11-28-1844 in the 69 yr. of his age

Burials after Beverly Yount's transcriptions:
Joyce Robbins 1902- 1990
Roy Robbins 1904-1981
Edith Woods Stinson 1912-1999
Samuel Stinson 1897- 1976
Reba Youst 1909- 1968

Veterans buried at Locust Grove:
Revolution - John Robbins
War of 1812- Henry Fender
Civil War- James Monroe Colvin William H. Colvin
Samuel Huntington Henry E. Mitchell
James Havens Robbins Henry H. Sweet
Jacob Sweet
World War I- Samuel Stinson