Adams County Indiana - Roop ~ Carrol Cemetery

Adams County, Indiana

Roop - Carrol Cemetery

"Science is a cemetery of dead ideas"
~ Miguel de Unamuno

Location: This abandoned cemetery is located in St. Mary's Township, Adams Co, IN, southeast of Decatur on the Piqua Road near the Indiana-Ohio line. It is in a field in a clump of trees.

According to some, there are no stones left in the burial grounds.
In 1980, Florence Gause's map of the cemetery stated there were once 25 stones, with a note that Williamson used the stones as disk weights.
In 1994, Ian Miller, who was working on his Eagle Scout award, took pictures and there were still stones standing.
In 2004, Mike Roop took pictures of the the abandoned cemetery.

In June 2010, a group of researchers were allowed access to the cemetery and found several stones, including little Johnny Troutner, whose stone had never been reported. Most of the photos are from 2010.

updated 12/6/2013

Roop ~ Carroll Cemetery

Name	Born	Died	Spouse Marriage Date	Parents	Military	Obit	Photo
Carroll, Dorothy (Turner)	5/27/1921	11/15/2009	John C - 7/12/1943	Lewis & Sigrid Larson Turner		obit
Carroll, John, Dr	1917	4/8/1981	Dorothy Turner	Clayson & Leah Miller Carroll	US Army	abstract	photo
Dickey, William	2/1/1795	4/12/1871	Susannah Roop			obit	photo
Lewis, Nathaniel	1803	4/21/1882		brother of Nancy Lewis Roop		obit	photo
Roop, Elizabeth (Thatcher)	12/11/1830	12/7/1853 or 1855	Frederick S	John & Margaret Peggy Troutner Thatcher			photo
Roop, Frederick S	6/15/1817	3/10/1904	Elizabeth Thatcher - 1853; Margaret Ann Thatcher - 1859; Louise Allen - 1891	Jacob & Nancy Lewis Roop		obit	2004 photo
Roop, Harriet B (Troutner)"Hattie"	9/8/1845	3/5/1877	Jacob C			obit	photo
Roop, Margaret A (Thatcher)	4/4/1842	5/27/1881	Frederick S; died of typhoid fever	John & Margaret P Troutner Thatcher			photo
Thatcher, John			Margaret Troutner - 1823; Nancy Lewis Roop - 1853		Civil War Co F, 46th OH Inf	GAR	photo
Thatcher, Margaret P (Troutner)		7/7/1853	John				photo
Troutner, Johnny	1/4/1868	9/24/1868		George W & Catherine Avery Troutner			photo
unknown		no dates	4 months, 11 days
White, Susannah (Thatcher)	2/22/1801	7/27/1854	Otho				photo

The following small stones only contain initials; they are probably foot stones.

M F or T	no dates
E R	no dates		photo
H R		near Hattie Roop
J R
L R
N R			photo
J T			photo
T T	no dates
S W
		2 bases with no stones

Illegible Stones

Many thanks to those intrepid ancestor hunters, Gayle & Ruthie Agler, Jane & Dean Edson (KS), Bobbi Harrison (WA), Karin King (MI), Larry Lautzenheiser, Margie Pearce (LA) and Janet Torson.