CEMETERY GUIDE for ancestors of Zadoc John Piety (1882-1961) and Ora Frances (Watson) Piety (1882-1935) This Cemetery Guide discloses certain information on the Vigo and Knox County Indiana burials for ancestors of Zadoc John Piety and his wife Ora Frances (Watson) Piety. It was produced in anticipation of an October 8, 2011 family reunion, to be hosted by Dennis and Sharon Piety at their Pimento Indiana home. Because this Guide’s primary goal is to facilitate visits by interested family members to their ancestors’ grave sites, not all available information is presented here. This document only contains basic directions to the cemeteries and basic information on the ancestor, tombstone images, and GPS coordinates of each tombstone. Refer to www.hoggattfamily.com for additional details and scanned images of birth certificates, marriage bonds and licenses, U.S. Census images, military pension applications, death certificates, wills and probate records, pictures, and more. 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Brian Hoggatt 501 Highland Pass Road Middlebury IN 46540 [email protected] Table of Contents Page # 1 7-Generation Pedigree Chart through Zadoc John Piety 2 7-Generation Pedigree Chart through Ora Frances Watson 3 GPS Location of all known ancestor burials 4-6 Mariah Creek Christian Church Cemetery, Knox Co.,IN 7 Lyken Cemetery, Vigo Co.,IN 8-11 Middleton Cemetery, Vigo Co.,IN 12 New Harmony Cemetery, Vigo Co.,IN 13-14 Second Prairie Creek Cemetery, Vigo Co.,IN 15-16 Trueblood Cemetery, Vigo Co.,IN 17-19 Watson Cemetery, Vigo Co.,IN 20-27 West Lawn Cemetery, Vigo Co.,IN 28-29 Additional likely Vigo County ancestor burials Generation (relative to the children of Zadoc and Ora) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Austin Piety Thomas Sr. Piety - Mariah Creek Christian Church Cemetery, Oaktown, Knox Co.,IN Sarah (Polk) Piety James Duncan Piety - Middleton Cemetery, Prairie Creek, Vigo Co.,IN James Duncan Mary F. (Duncan) Piety - Mariah Creek Christian Church Cemetery, Oaktown, Knox Co.,IN ??? Thomas Piety - Middleton Cemetery, Prairie Creek, Vigo Co.,IN Jonathan Harned - Old Union Cemetery, Vertrees, Hardin Co., KY Enos Harned Catherine Bean (Avracost) Harned - Old Union Cemetery, Vertrees, Hardin Co., KY Eleanor Ellen (Harned ) Piety - Middleton Cemetery, Prairie Creek, Vigo Co.,IN ??? Deborah (Compstock) Harned ??? John D. Early Piety - West Lawn Cemetery, Prairie Creek, Vigo Co.,IN ??? William Thomas, Sr. - Middleton Cemetery, Prairie Creek, Vigo Co.,IN ??? Elijah Thomas - West Lawn Cemetery, Prairie Creek, Vigo Co.,IN Joseph Marshall Margaret (Marshall) Thomas - Middleton Cemetery, Prairie Creek, Vigo Co.,IN Rachel Emily (Thomas) Piety - West Lawn Cemetery, Prairie Creek, Vigo Co.,IN John Pound Thomas Pound - Second Prairie Creek Cemetery, Prairie Creek, Vigo Co.,IN Sarah (Martin) Pound Sarah (Pound) Thomas - West Lawn Cemetery, Prairie Creek, Vigo Co.,IN William Kester Sarah (Kester) Pound - Second Prairie Creek Cemetery, Prairie Creek, Vigo Co.,IN Elizabeth (Leacock) Kester Zadoc John Piety - Edgewood-Greenwood Cemetery, Apopka, Orange Co.,FL Vigo/Knox County Cemeteries Joshua Trueblood Mariah Creek Christian Church Cemetery, Knox Co.,IN Thomas Trueblood Lyken Cemetery, Vigo Co.,IN Miriam (Morris) Trueblood Middleton Cemetery, Vigo Co.,IN Benoni Trueblood - Trueblood Cemetery, Prairie Creek, Vigo Co.,INNew Harmony Cemetery, Vigo Co.,IN Robert Pendleton Second Prairie Creek Cemetery, Vigo Co.,IN Elizabeth (Pendleton) Trueblood Trueblood Cemetery, Vigo Co.,IN ??? Watson Cemetery, Vigo Co.,IN William Gregory Trueblood - West Lawn Cemetery, Prairie Creek, Vigo Co.,IN West Lawn Cemetery, Vigo Co.,IN ??? Joseph Gregory ??? Bridget Ann (Gregory) Trueblood - Trueblood Cemetery, Prairie Creek, Vigo Co.,IN ??? ??? ??? Mary Phedora (Trueblood) Piety - West Lawn Cemetery, Prairie Creek, Vigo Co.,IN Jesse Beauchamp Isaac Beauchamp Zadoc & Ora's children Leah (Heath) Beauchamp Nellie Elenor Piety Reuben Handy Beauchamp - Second Prairie Creek Cemetery, Prairie Creek, Vigo Co.,IN Ethel Irene Piety Thomas Beachamp Mary Edith Piety Hetty Hester (Beauchamp) Beauchamp Clara Josephine Piety Sarah (Adams) Beauchamp Belva Piety Hetta Taylor (Beauchamp) Trueblood/French - West Lawn Cemetery, Prairie Creek, Vigo Co.,IN Vanessa Mae Piety William Kester Mildred Louise Piety John Kester Buel Earl Piety Elizabeth (Leacock) Kester Ruth Ella Piety Elizabeth (Kester) Beauchamp - Second Prairie Creek Cemetery, Prairie Creek, Vigo Co.,IN Elmer Watson Piety John Pound Kenneth Ralph Piety Sarah (Kester) Pound Norman Eugene Piety Sarah (Martin) Pound Page 1 Generation (relative to the children of Zadoc and Ora) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Zadoc & Ora's children ??? Vigo/Knox County Cemeteries Nellie Elenor Piety John Marine Watson Mariah Creek Christian Church Cemetery, Knox Co.,IN Ethel Irene Piety ??? Lyken Cemetery, Vigo Co.,IN Mary Edith Piety Scarlet Watson - Watson Cemetery, Prairie Creek, Vigo Co.,IN Middleton Cemetery, Vigo Co.,IN Clara Josephine Piety ??? New Harmony Cemetery, Vigo Co.,IN Belva Piety Permelia Fisher Second Prairie Creek Cemetery, Vigo Co.,IN Vanessa Mae Piety ??? Trueblood Cemetery, Vigo Co.,IN Mildred Louise Piety Richard Clement Watson - Watson Cemetery, Prairie Creek, Vigo Co.,IN Watson Cemetery, Vigo Co.,IN Buel Earl Piety Gideon Walker West Lawn Cemetery, Vigo Co.,IN Ruth Ella Piety Mareen Duvall Walker Elmer Watson Piety Priscilla Duvall Kenneth Ralph Piety Keziah (Walker) Watson - Watson Cemetery, Prairie Creek, Vigo Co.,IN Norman Eugene Piety Phillip Berry Ann Berry Elizabeth Eleanor Twogood James Buchanan Watson - West Lawn Cemetery, Prairie Creek, Vigo Co.,IN Ebenezer Paddock - New Harmony Cemetery, Prairie Creek, Vigo Co.,IN William Paddock Keziah Case Lewis Paddock - Lyken Cemetery, Prairie Creek, Vigo Co.,IN William Watts Sarah J. (Watts) Paddock - Lyken Cemetery, Prairie Creek, Vigo Co.,IN ??? Amanda Melvina (Paddock) Watson - Watson Cemetery, Prairie Creek, Vigo Co.,IN William Shattuck Eliphalet Shattuck Lydia Allis Mary B. Shattuck James Wiley Jane Wiley ??? Ora Frances (Watson) Piety - Fairview Cemetery, Mishawaka, St. Joseph Co.,IN Gilbert Devol, Sr. - Beverly Cemetery, Beverly, Washington Co.,OH Gilbert Devol, Jr. Ruth (Brown) Howland/Devol - Beverly Cemetery, Beverly, Washington Co.,OH Benjamin Franklin Devol Levi Peck Rachel (Peck) Shute/Devol - Raper Chapel Cemetery, Troy, Miami Co.,OH Rachel Harrison John Wesley Devol - West Lawn Cemetery, Prairie Creek, Vigo Co.,IN John Turnham George Turnham Frances Horton Nancy Ann Turnham ??? Nancy Cump ??? Clara E. (Devol) Watson - West Lawn Cemetery, Prairie Creek, Vigo Co.,IN John Heap George Washington Heap - Union Baptist Cemetery, Claremont, Richland Co.,IL Margaret Kerr George Washington Heap - Haven Hill Cemetery, Olney, Richland Co.,IL ??? Elizabeth (Sanders) Heap - Union Baptist Cemetery, Claremont, Richland Co.,IL ??? Frances "Fannie" Harriet Heap Robert Fiske Abraham Fiske Elizabeth (Jones) Fiske - Springdale Cemetery, Madison, Jefferson Co.,IN Elizabeth J (Fiske) Heap - Haven Hill Cemetery, Olney, Richland Co.,IL Jedediah Hurd Artimeta (Hurd) Fiske/McLane - Green Hill Cemetery, Bedford, Lawrence Co.,IN Jeshua Barker Page 2 GPS Locations For all known ancestor burials of Zadoc John Piety and Ora Frances (Watson) Piety Surname Maiden Ancestor Name Gen ST County Town Cemetery Name Latitude Longitude Soule George Sr. 11 MADuxbury Plymouth Myles Standish Burying Ground 42.025070 -70.687510 Fiske Jones Jones, Elizabeth 7 IN Jefferson Madison Springdale Cemetery 38.741433 -85.388200 Paddock Paddock, Ebenezer 7 IN Vigo Prairie Creek New Harmony Cemetery 39.346533 -87.500467 Howland/Devol Brown Brown, Ruth 7 OH Washington Beverly Beverly Cemetery 39.552750 -81.630083 Devol Devol, Gilbert Sr. 7 OH Washington Beverly Beverly Cemetery 39.552767 -81.630083 Piety Duncan Duncan, Mary F. 6 IN Knox Oaktown Mariah Creek Christian Church Cemetery 38.829833 -87.375767 Piety Piety, Thomas Sr. 6 IN Knox Oaktown Mariah Creek Christian Church Cemetery 38.829800 -87.375667 Fiske/McLane Hurd Hurd, Artimeta 6 IN Lawrence Bedford Green Hill Cemetery 38.858583 -86.486183 Shute/Devol Peck Peck, Rachel 6 OH Miami Troy Raper Chapel Cemetery 40.077900 -84.205200 Heap Sanders Sanders, Elizabeth 6 IL Richland Claremont Union Baptist Cemetery 38.734783 -87.991567 Heap Heap, George Washington 6 IL Richland Claremont Union Baptist Cemetery 38.734817 -87.991550 Paddock Watts Watts, Sarah J. 6 IN Vigo Prairie Creek Lyken Cemetery 39.279983 -87.536283 Thomas Marshall Marshall, Margaret 6 IN Vigo Prairie Creek Middleton Cemetery 39.276400 -87.497300 Thomas Thomas, William Sr. 6 IN Vigo Prairie Creek Middleton Cemetery 39.276317 -87.497333 Pound Kester Kester, Sarah 6 IN Vigo Prairie Creek Second Prairie Creek Cemetery 39.311033 -87.445467 Pound Pound, Thomas 6 IN Vigo Prairie Creek Second Prairie Creek Cemetery 39.311033 -87.445467 Heap Fiske Fiske, Elizabeth J 5 IL Richland Olney Haven Hill Cemetery 38.738833 -88.085600 Heap Heap, George Washington 5 IL Richland Olney Haven Hill Cemetery 38.738833 -88.085600 Paddock Paddock, Lewis 5 IN Vigo Prairie Creek Lyken Cemetery 39.279900 -87.536217 Piety Harned Harned , Eleanor Ellen 5 IN Vigo Prairie Creek Middleton Cemetery 39.276750 -87.497383 Piety Piety, James Duncan 5 IN Vigo Prairie Creek Middleton Cemetery 39.276750 -87.497383 Beauchamp Kester Kester, Elizabeth 5 IN Vigo Prairie Creek Second Prairie Creek Cemetery 39.310900 -87.445550 Beauchamp Beauchamp, Reuben Handy 5 IN Vigo Prairie Creek Second Prairie Creek Cemetery 39.311117 -87.445500 Trueblood Gregory Gregory, Bridget Ann 5 IN Vigo Prairie Creek Trueblood Cemetery 39.307433 -87.476717 Trueblood Trueblood, Benoni 5 IN Vigo Prairie Creek Trueblood Cemetery 39.307483 -87.476783 Watson Walker Walker, Keziah 5 IN Vigo Prairie Creek Watson Cemetery 39.292000 -87.522767 Watson Watson, Scarlet 5 IN Vigo Prairie Creek Watson Cemetery 39.292017 -87.522783 Thomas Pound Pound, Sarah 5 IN Vigo Prairie Creek West Lawn Cemetery 39.274333 -87.502850 Thomas Thomas, Elijah 5 IN Vigo Prairie Creek West Lawn Cemetery 39.274333 -87.502850 Piety Piety, Thomas 4 IN Vigo Prairie Creek Middleton Cemetery 39.276750 -87.497383 Watson Paddock Paddock, Amanda Melvina 4 IN Vigo Prairie Creek Watson Cemetery 39.291950 -87.522733 Watson Watson, Richard Clement 4 IN Vigo Prairie Creek Watson Cemetery 39.291950 -87.522767 Devol Devol, John Wesley 4 IN Vigo Prairie Creek West Lawn Cemetery 39.274250 -87.502367 Piety Thomas Thomas, Emily 4 IN Vigo Prairie Creek West Lawn Cemetery 39.274283 -87.502750 Trueblood/French BeauchamBeauchamp, Hetta Taylor 4 IN Vigo Prairie Creek West Lawn Cemetery 39.274167 -87.502650 Trueblood Trueblood, William Gregory 4 IN Vigo Prairie Creek West Lawn Cemetery 39.274167 -87.502650 Piety TruebloodTrueblood, Mary Phedora 3 IN Vigo Prairie Creek West Lawn Cemetery 39.274100 -87.502817 Piety Piety, John D. Early 3 IN Vigo Prairie Creek West Lawn Cemetery 39.274100 -87.502817 Watson Watson, James Buchanan 3 IN Vigo Prairie Creek West Lawn Cemetery 39.274917 -87.502333 Watson Devol Devol, Clara E. 3 IN Vigo Prairie Creek West Lawn Cemetery 39.274917 -87.502333 Piety Piety, Zadoc John 2 FL Orange Apopka Edgewood-Greenwood Cemetery 28.675050 -81.501920 Piety Watson Watson, Ora Frances 2 IN St. Joseph Mishawaka Fairview Cemetery 41.674450 -86.185183 Note: The "Gen" column indicates the number of generations back, with the children of Zadoc and Ora being generation #1. Page 3 Mariah Creek Christian Church Cemetery, Oaktown, Knox Co., IN This Cemetery includes the oldest Piety ancestors of Zadoc to be buried in Indiana. It is located about 35 miles southeast of Prairie Creek. From Prairie Creek, take IN St. Rd. 246 (159th Drive) east about 6 miles and turn south (right) onto US 41. After 29 miles (on the northeast corner of Oaktown), turn east (left) onto Freelandville Road. Go 2.3 miles on Freelandville Road and turn south (right) on County Road 400 E (Risley Road). After another 2.3 miles on 400 E, turn east (right) on E. Oaktown Road. After about ½ mile, Oaktown Road curves southeast. About 1 mile after the curve, turn west (right) on E. Pepmeier Road. The entrance to the Mariah (Maria) Creek Christian Church is on the north (right) side of the road, and the Cemetery is behind the church building. Thomas Piety – Latitude 38.8298 and Longitude -87.373567 Mary F. (Duncan) Piety – Latitude 38.829833 and Longitude -87.375767 Thomas and Mary are connected to Zadoc, as follows: Thomas Piety and Mary F. (Duncan) Piety - GrGrGrandparents James Duncan Piety and Eleanor (Harned) Piety - GrGrandparents Thomas Piety and Emily (Thomas) Piety - Grandparents John D. Early Piety and Mary Phedora (Trueblood) Piety - Parents Zadoc John Piety Thomas Piety was son of British Captain Austin Piety and Sarah Polk. There is conflicting information regarding his birth. Possible dates 1763 (plaque under tombstone in honor of Revolutionary War service) and Dec 1770 (tombstone). Thomas’ listing in the 1830 Census for Knox Co IN included one free male in the household between 50 and 60 years old, which lends most credence to the 1770 tombstone birth year. James Polke wrote in A Historical and Biographical Sketch of a Pioneer Life 1884, “Austin Piety with his command was ordered to Kaskaskia, on the Mississippi River in 1770 by the British Authorities. He descended down the Ohio River with his wife and troops under his command, as far as the falls of the Ohio River (Louisville) and there made a short stay in order to lay in a supply of buffalo and other meat; thence down the river to its mouth (now Cairo IL) and from thence up to their destination, the ‘American Bottom’ on the east side of the Mississippi River opposite St. Louis (Ft. Kaskaskia is down river, south of St. Louis), and during their stay, Thomas Piety was born in 1770. The party returned to Ft. Pitt and during the Revolutionary War Austin Piety returned to England and from thence never returned, leaving his wife, Sarah Polk Piety, and four children in America.” Mary “Polly” Duncan was born 25 Nov 1774 in Maryland to James Duncan, who moved his family in her youth to Nelson Co. KY. The marriage bond for Thomas Piety and Mary Duncan, signed by Thomas Piety, was dated 26 Jul 1792. Because Mary was not yet 18 years old in the Summer of 1792, her father James Duncan’s permission was required for the marriage license to be issued. They were married 07 Aug 1792 at the Nelson Co. KY home of James Duncan, Mary’s father, by Joshua Carman. Mary described Joshua Carmen as “a creditable Baptist preacher.” Page 4 Mariah Creek Christian Church Cemetery, Oaktown, Knox Co., IN Thomas Piety made application for military pension on January 1, 1834 in Knox Co. IN. He was eligible for the pension under Act of Congress dated April 25, 1808, but was unaware of the pension until the District’s Congressional Representative John Ewing notified him in 1833. He was wounded during his military service at St. Clair’s defeat in the November 1791 Indian War. For his service, he received a pension of $4 per month, beginning January 1834. He only collected his monthly $4 a little over one year, as he died on 17 May 1835. Thomas’ pension application stated, “during the Revolutionary war and long after peace had been concluded with England, he served as a volunteer and a drafted militia man in different expeditions against the Indians. Served in that from Fort Pitt, now Pittsburg Pennsylvania, afterward from Kentucky, that he cannot precisely state his age is now apparently seventy years, he well knows by events in his memory that he has a distinct recollection of his various services as a volunteer, and as a drafted militia man under Col. J. Hardin, Col. Wilkinson and Col. Scott at different times from Kentucky against hostile Indians in the North West Territory. That he served in Capt Presley Gray’s Company of Drafted men collected near the falls of Ohio then attached to Virginia and with said Company under the command of Col Oltham joined the Army of Gen. St. Clair near Fort Hamilton, that in the engaging with the Indians near Fort Recovery called St. Clair’s defeat, he the said Piety while in the line of his duty was severely wounded by a musket or rifle shot and disabled in the thigh and hip joint as stated in the accompanying Certificate of two physicians and the affidavits of the Ensign of the Company Thomas Spencer and John Parker a Surgeon of the same which are hereunto annexed that he served for the time he was drafted until wounded as aforesaid that his mode of life since leaving the service has been that of a farmer. That he resided in the State of Kentucky in the County of Breckenridge, that for the last nineteen years he has resided in the County of Knox in the state of Indiana where he now resides at the taking of this testimony.” John Parker, one of the supporting witnesses for Thomas Piety’s pension application, stated “he well remembered seeing said Piety laying or sitting wounded during the engagement and while yet on the battle ground that he and said Parker being himself wounded in the same battle was afterward in the same bed with said Piety and that they frequently examined the wounds of each other.” Another witness, Thomas Spencer, affirmed his acquaintance “with the said Thomas Piety since the year 1777 at which period they both resided in the vicinity of Fort Pitt now Pittsburg Pennsylvania, that the said Spencer removed to Jefferson County Kentucky in the year 1780 and said Piety also removed to the neighborhood of the State of Ohio in said County of State a few years afterwards, where their former acquaintance and intimacy was renewed, that a draft of Militia was made in said County in the year 1790 for men to go on an expedition against hostile Indians up the Wabash River under Major Hamtramck in which expedition said Piety served as a Sergeant in Capt. McHall’s company, and he said Spencer served as a private in said Company. The expedition returned to the Falls after burning the Indian town near the mouth of the Vermillion and the Militia was there discharged. That he the said Spencer served in different expeditions sent from Kentucky in 1790 and 1791 and then under the command of Col J Hardin, Col. Wilkinson, and Col Scott always had the said Thomas Piety along with them. That he the said Spencer was in 1791 elected an Ensign in Capt. Presley Gray’s company of drafted men which under General St. Clair’s army with said Thomas Piety serving as a private and the company was attached to the command of Colonel Oldham in joining the main army near Fort Hamilton Ohio. That said Piety and this Deponent again became mates until the defeat of our Army near Fort Recovery known as St. Clair’s Defeat in which our company suffered greatly. That said Thomas Piety was severely wounded in the thigh or groin, and when all were retreating in confusion he the said Spencer discovered said Piety to be utterly unable to travel, and a horseman being at hand, he said Spencer laid hold of the bridle and placed said Piety behind the rider in which manner the Page 5 Mariah Creek Christian Church Cemetery, Oaktown, Knox Co., IN wounded man was brought off the field and conveyed to Fort Washington from whence said Spencer and Piety proceeded by water to the Falls of Ohio.” On 12 Aug 1844, Mary also made a declaration in court as part of her application for widow’s pension payments for Thomas’ service. Mary believed she qualified for the widow’s pension under the provisions of Pension Acts of Congress in 1838, 1843, and 1844. Her application was denied, possibly because the 1791 Indian War referenced in her application did not qualify as “Revolutionary War” service under those Acts. Entrance to Cemetery – Thomas and Mary Piety are at the top of the small mound just right of center in the picture. Mary (Duncan) Piety and Thomas Piety, Sr. - Latitude 38.8298 Longitude -87.3758 Page 6 Lyken Cemetery, Prairie Creek, Vigo Co., IN Lyken Cemetery is about 2½ miles west of Prairie Creek. From Prairie Creek, go west on W. Middletown Road (#246) about 2 miles and turn right (north) on S. Battlerow Pl. The driveway (pictured here) is on the east (right) side of Battlerow Pl, about 0.4 miles north of Middletown Road. A locked gate prevents driving up the hill to the Cemetery (you can park there and walk), unless unlocked by the residents at the house across the road another 500 feet north. Lyken Cemetery contains the burials of Ora (Watson) Piety’s ancestors: Sarah Jane (Watts) Paddock: Latitude 39.2800 Longitude -87.53628333 Lewis Paddock: Latitude 39.2799 Longitude -87.53621667 Internet sources also identify Lyken Cemetery as the burial site for Lewis’ wife Mary B (Shattuck) Paddock, although I have not located a tombstone for her at Lyken Cemetery. Their connection to Ora is as follows: William Paddock and Sarah Jane (Watts) Paddock – GrGrGrandparents Lewis Paddock and Mary B. (Shattuck) Paddock - GrGrandparents Richard C. and Amanda Melvina (Paddock) Watson - Grandparents James Buchanan and Clara E. (Devol) Watson - Parents Ora Frances (Watson) Piety Sarah Jane (Watts) Paddock was born 1780 or 1781 and died 28 May 1849 in Prairie Creek Twp., Vigo Co., IN. She married William Paddock 07 Jan 1802 in Ohio. (For information about William, see New Harmony Cemetery.) After William Paddock’s death 06 Nov 1838, Sarah lived with her son Lewis where she was for the 1840 Census of Prairie Creek, Vigo Co., IN. Sarah died 22 May 1849. Lewis Paddock was born 20 Jun 1804 (20 Aug 1804 according to tombstone) in Butler Co. Ohio to William and Sarah Jane (Watts) Paddock. Lewis first married Mary B. Shatuck on 13 Feb 1826 in Vigo Co. IN. Lewis and Mary had at least 4 children, the third of whom was Amanda Melvina Paddock (paternal grandmother of Ora). After Mary’s November 1842 death, Lewis remarried Rebecca Ann Pogue on 23 Aug 1843. Lewis and Rebecca had at least seven additional children. Lewis died 31 Mar 1872. Rebecca died in 1886 and was buried next to Lewis. Page 7 Middleton Cemetery, Prairie Creek, Vigo Co., IN Middleton Cemetery is located on the north edge of Prairie Creek, the northeast corner of State Road 63 and West 157th Drive. Middleton Cemetery is the burial site for five of ancestors of Zadoc: William and Margaret (Marshall) Thomas James Duncan and Eleanor “Ellen” (Harned) Piety Thomas Piety The connection of Zadoc to William and Margaret (Marshall) Thomas is as follows: William and Margaret (Marshall) Thomas – GrGrGrandparents Elijah and Sarah (Pound) Thomas – GrGrandparents Thomas and Emily (Thomas) Piety – Grandparents John D. Early and Mary Phedora (Trueblood) Piety – parents Zadoc John Piety The connection to Thomas Piety, James Duncan and Eleanor (Harned) Piety is as follows: James Duncan and Eleanor (Harned) Piety – GrGrandparents Thomas and Emily (Thomas) Piety – Grandparents John D. Early and Mary Phedora (Trueblood) Piety – parents Zadoc John Piety William Thomas Sr. – Latitude 39.2763 Longitude -87.497 Margaret (Marshall) Thomas – Latitude 39.2764 Longitude -87.497 William Thomas Sr. was born 1758 in Richmond, VA. He and John Thomas were the sons of William Thomas and Emmet Evans, who immigrated on the Emmet. When his father was on his death bed, from the war with Great Britain, he sent a message to Emmet to “educate our two boys.” Margaret “Maggie” Marshall was also born about 1758 in VA. William and Margaret married about 1778 in VA. They moved to Lexington KY, thence to Ohio, and in 1811 moved to Indiana and lived in Fort Widner. In 1816, again moved, to Vigo Co. IN. Margaret Thomas died 01 Dec 1824 according to her tombstone. William Thomas died 28 Jan 1828 and was buried next to (north of) Margaret. William’s gravesite is marked with his tombstone and a smaller Revolutionary War honorary stone inscribed with: Page 8