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RISK GRAVEYARD

Sec. 1-5-11

Shelby Township
Jefferson County, Indiana

April 2000 Survey – done by Jackie Owen

KEY: SS = Same Stone, W = Wife, S = Son, D = Daughter, y = year(s), m = month(s), d = day(s)

* According to Bob Scott, these three inscriptions recorded by the John Paul DAR are all on one stone, described as being broken at the time. The stone was still standing in the 1970s, on the south side of the road.

    LAST NAME
    FIRST
    MIDDLE
    BORN
    DIED
    INSCRIPTION(S)
    COMMENTS
  


    Hall *
    Mary
    M.
    1837
    30 Sep 1876
    Age 39y 6m 4d
    
  

    Risk *
    John
    J.
    
    15 Jul 1882
    Age 79y 2m 12d
    
  

    Risk *
    William
    H. H.
    04 Apr 1858
    05 May 1883
    
    Unreadable in 2000
  

    Risk
    Dorcas
    
    
    
    
    Not on 1941 DAR list
  

COMMENTS: Graveyard located 1 2/10 miles from Barbersville Creek Road on the west side of Hicks Ridge Road.

The DAR did not record Dorcas Risk’ stone. But in a visit about 1971, Bob Scott recorded her name as being on the stone, but with no death date. She lived 1813/14-1 Apr. 1891. Her death is recorded in the Jefferson Co. Health Department.