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Submitted: 11/25/10 • Approved: 12/3/10 • Last Updated: 8/11/12 • R417416-G0-S3
This is one of 17 Magness or Magness related graves that are in the southeast corner of the Patton Cemetery on the banks of Crooked and Clear Creek. All of the graves are covered with limestone slabs. Most of the slabs are coffin shaped like this one. The slabs appeared to have originally been placed on rock foundations, but in most cases the foundations have broken up. In this case, parts of the original foundation are laying alongside the covering, and the slab itself has broken into two pieces.
Names and dates were apparently etched into the stones; however, through the years the markings on many of the stones such as this one have become unreadable. No information can now be seen on this and nine other of these coffin-shaped markers. When Lester & Marian Burnes surveyed the Patton Cemetery for inclusion in their 1989 book "Cemeteries of Marion County," they were able to make out inscriptions on six of these markers that can no longer be read, and they noted (All Magness' very hard to read). Based upon information from the readable inscriptions and the additional ones that Mr. & Mrs. Burnes were able to read in 1989, it would appear that the death date for this individual and all of the other stone slab marked graves in the Patton Cemetery were in the time frame of the mid-1830's to 1870.
Contributed on 11/25/10 by maxparnell
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Record #: 417416