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Satterthwaite Cemetery

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Location	:	Pleasant Plain, Huntington County, USA
Coordinate	:	40.7142890, -85.5458700
Description	:	This cemetery is said to be located on the west side of 500W, on the south bank of Pond Creek, about a quarter mile from 800S, in Section 7. There are no longer any tombstones present here and when the area is searched, nothing is found. The following was written in an article entitled, "Public Burying Grounds Donated by Satterthwaites" by Doris M. Chambers in 1974. "One early public burial ground in Huntington County was set apart for 'the purpose of burial of colored people, descendants of Africans, mulattoes and negroes.' Two contiguous graveyards in Section 7 of Jefferson Township were simultaneously... Read More	This cemetery is said to be located on the west side of 500W, on the south bank of Pond Creek, about a quarter mile from 800S, in Section 7. There are no longer any tombstones present here and when the area is searched, nothing is found. The following was written in an article entitled, "Public Burying Grounds Donated by Satterthwaites" by Doris M. Chambers in 1974. "One early public burial ground in Huntington County was set apart for 'the purpose of burial of colored people, descendants of Africans, mulattoes and negroes.' Two contiguous graveyards in Section 7 of Jefferson Township were simultaneously donated and deeded to be dedicated forever as public burying grounds. The Board of County Commissioners and their successors in office were to hold in trust grounds forever for the prescribed use and never should they be sold or conveyed for any other purpose whatsoever. Both lots or graveyards containing one and a half acres, more or less, were deeded Nov. 23, 1850 by Benjamin Satterthwaite and his wife Mar L. The lots lay east and west on the south side of Pond Creek beginning on the west side of CR-500 W. The western graveyard was for the colored people where wished to be buried here. Burials were to be made north to south in rotation according to length and size, with a foot of space between head and feet. This space might be occupied by monuments if desired. Last fall (1973) Mrs. Daisy Cook, a lifelong resident of the community, told that as a child she had many times seen the tombstones in the Satterthwaite Cemetery from the road as she rode by with her family in a buggy. A young man who hunted in the area reported seeing tombstones at the site. Today these burial grounds are not distinguishable as such and seen nonexistent as viewed from the highway. Possibly the present owner of the surrounding farm is unaware of them. A high sticktight fence encloses the pasture land including woodland and the public burial grounds. Described as a public-spirited man, Satterthwaite was well versed in political history, but never sought a public office. He was reared in the Quaker Church and upheld the principles of the church throughout his life. He was strong in theology and an able supporter of the Bible and its teachings. Statistically, Benjamin Linton Satterthwaite was born in Burlington County, N.J. in 1880. He married Ruth evens, born 1801. She died in 1829 leaving him with a 6-year-old daughter and a 4-year-old son, Samuel. His second marriage took place in Warren County, Ohio, to Miss Mary Lukens. This union was blessed with a daughter, Elizabeth, who became the wife of Charles Nix of Huntington. Satterthwaite entered a tract of wild land in Section 7 of Jefferson Township in 1836. He and son Samuel were probably the first to fell trees in Jefferson Township when they built their cabin in 1840. the family moved to Huntington County permanently in 1843. Mrs. Satterthwaite died in 1866 and was followed by Benjamin in 1869."

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