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BUCHANAN CEMETERY
(aka Lee Cemetery)
Sec. 34-5-11
Shelby Township
Jefferson County, Indiana
September 2000 Survey – by Jackie Owen
DIRECTIONS: Take S.R. 421 to S.R. 250 to Canaan. Turn left at the first road out of Canaan, which is Barbersville Road. At the “T” in the road, turn left and follow the road up the hill. (The “County Line” sign will appear 3.5 miles after making the turn onto Barbersville Road out of Canaan). Continue another three-tenths of a mile to the Buchanan Cemetery. The cemetery will be on the north (left) side of the road on a hill with steps leading up to it and enclosed with an iron fence. A model of the Buchanan Station will be on the south side of the road.
KEY: SS = Same Stone, W = Wife, S = Son, D = Daughter, y = year(s), m = month(s), d = day(s)
| LAST NAME | FIRST | MIDDLE | BORN | DIED | INSCRIPTION(S) | COMMENTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buchanan | Enoch | 21 Oct 1821 | 19 Feb 1883 | Age 61y 3m 28d | ||
| Buchanan ** | George | 4 PA Reg. Rev. War 1815 | There is a marker for the same George Buchanan in the Jefferson Church Cemetery as well. Neither of these stones marks a grave, but are probably commemorative stones placed years after the fact. – Bob Scott | |||
| Buchanan | Hannah | 13 Feb 1853 | W of Wilson – Age 63y | |||
| Buchanan | Ina | Fay | 05 Apr 1892 | 19 Apr 1894 | D of J.W. & M. | |
| Buchanan | Lucinda | 02 Sep 1857 | W of Enoch – Age 34y 5m 5d | |||
| Buchanan | Malinda | J. | 09 May 1845 | D of E. & L. – Age 13m | ||
| Buchanan | Rebecca | 07 Aug 1827 | D of W. & H – Age 13y 11m | |||
| Buchanan | Rebecca | J. | 13 Apr 1837 | 05 Apr 1919 | Note on DAR list says Rebecca J. Hillis was 2nd wife of Enoch | |
| Buchanan | Robert | 1827 | S of W. & H. – Age 11y | |||
| Buchanan | Vienna | Sep 1827 | D of W. & H. – Age 5y 11m | |||
| Buchanan | William | May 1833 | S of Wilson (H)? & ? – Age 32y | |||
| Buchanan * | William | 26 Feb 1845 | Age 73y 11m 24d | |||
| Buchanan | William | H.H. | 25 Dec 1861 | S of E. & L. – Age 19y 2m | ||
| Buchanan | Wilson | 19 Apr 1851 | Age 76y | |||
| Buckaannan ** | J. | W. | Co. A. 37th Ind. Inf. | Gov. marker – no dates. This is the spelling on the stone. | ||
| Fox | ----- | Stone just said wife of William Fox – no dates or 1st name | ||||
| Fox | William | H. | 07 Apr 1803 | 25 Jun 1887 | ||
| Kaye ** | Henry | 13 Apr 1843 | S of Henry & Melinda – Age 8d | Death year could possible 1848 | ||
| Mathews | Edith | E. | 13 Mar 1857 | 12 May 1901 | W of Levi B. | |
| Mathews | Levi | B. | 06 Apr 1854 | 28 Jul 1917 | ||
| McLaughlin ** | George | 29 Dec 1773 | 05 Apr 1846 | Age 72y 3m | ||
| McLaughlin ** | Martha | 16 Nov 1833 | W of George – Age 53y | |||
| McLaughlin ** | Sarah | 10 Jun 1863 | Age 61y 9m 25d | |||
| Risk | ----- | Infant S of M.B. & V.H. – Age 3d | No dates | |||
| Risk | Vina | H. | 25 Sep 1873 | W of Moses B. – Age 23y | ||
| Shepherd | Elizabeth | 13 May 1843 | Age 8m 12d |
COMMENTS:
This cemetery may actually be in Ripley County, Brown Township. It depends on how you look at it. As you go north on Barbersville Rd. from Canaan you will cross the sign for the Ripley County line, but you come to Buchanan Cemetery before you reach the road that marks the Ripley/Jefferson County lines.
Names marked with an asterisk (*) are stones that were moved from the Buchanan “Family Plot” which was located southwest of the Buchanan Cemetery. These stones were moved sometime between 1972 and 1984.
The McLaughlin Cemetery stones were also moved to the Buchanan Cemetery during this same time period, having been removed from their original burial site in Jefferson County, southwest of Buchanan Cemetery. These stones are noted with a double asterisk (**).
Key: W = Wife; D = Daughter; S = Son; SS = Same Stone
There were about 30 stones that were unreadable, some were probably footstones.