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Showalter Cemetery - Fall Creek Township

    This old cemetery is located on the Dorothy Myers property just north of US #36 and east of county road #700 west. This cemetery was started by Abraham Showalter in the 1840s as a neighborhood burial grounds. A lot of the stones are down and there are several unmarked burials in this cemetery. The first settlers in this area were the Showalters and the Personetts. The land owners daughter keeps the grass mowed and looks after the grounds.

NameBornDiedOther Info
Barton, David 14 Apr 1859 22y, 11m, 19d Mason's stone
Barton, Mellisa 21 Oct 1856 25y, 9m, 28d Wife of William Barton
Barton, Nancy 5 Oct 1884 83y, 6m, 12d Wife of A. Barton
Brown, Frances 13 Jul 1852 24y, 1m, 27d Wife of William D.
Farmer, Della 18 Mar 1851 15y, 5m, 26d D. of John and Polly
F-------, Fernandez 28 Sep 1850 1y, 1m, 1d S. of Wm. And Mary
Goudy, William 19 Nov 1869 7y, 3m 11d Son of E. S. & E.
Personett, Alviretta 25 Jan 1864 7y, 1m, 18d D. of C. M. & L. J.
Personett, Margaret 25 Jan 1864 8y, 10m, 1d D. of C. M. & L. J. os w/ Alvireta
Personett, Elizabeth 26 Dec 1849 74y, 6m, 2d Wife of James
Personett, Elizabeth 19 Aug 1864 82y, 7m, 20d Wife of C. M.
Personett, James  7 Nov 1855Husband of Elizabeth 81y, 1m, 2d
Pickering, Elizabeth 21 Dec 1853 25y, 7m, 29d Wife of Joseph
Showalter, Aaron 30 Sep 1852 2y, 28d Son of John & Elizabeth
Showalter, Abraham 8 Feb 1869 90y, 6m, 7d Husband of Frances
Showalter, Frances J. 11 Feb 1853 11y, 11m, 9d D. of William & Polly
Showalter, Frances 15 Aug 1866 81y, 4m, 10d Wife of Abraham
Showalter, Lydia 3 Apr 1854 28y, 6m, 6d Wife of Henry
Showalter, Mary 11 Dec 1852 2y, 2m, 15d D. of Henry & Lydia
Showalter, William 7 May 1850 17, 9m, 20d Son of Henry & Lydia
3 footstones, G. W. D., J. S. S. and D. F. Barton stones were carved by: M. Jackson, Anderson.
Showalter Cemetery Additional Burials

Elizabeth Barton, b April 22, 1828, d December 21, 1853, never married. She is the daughter of Nancy Showalter, b March 23, 1804, and Anderson Barton. Nancy Showalter was the daughter of Abraham and Francis McCormack.
Anderson Barton, husband of Nancy Showalter-They were married in 1822 in Franklin Co., VA.
William Henry Farmer, b 1827 d, 1902, son of Mary Polly Showalter and John Showalter Farmer, mr. May 4, 1819
John Farmer, possibly John Showalter Farmer, b Oct, 1794, husband of Mary Polly Showalter.
Farmer, Polly Showalter, Mary Polly Showalter, wife of John Showalter Farmer. Mary Polly Showalter was the daughter of Abraham Showalter and Barbara Falley (Fallon).
Henry O Showalter b 21 February, 1824, d 1893, son of Abraham Showalter and Barbara Falley (Fallon).
John Saunders Showalter, b 811, d 1862, son of Abraham Showalter and Barbara Falley (Fallon). NOTE: cemetery stone marked J S S.
Margaret Showalter, b December 22, 1842, daughter of John Saunders Showalter.
Nancy Showalter, b 28 March 1804, d 5 October 1884. wife of Anderson Barton, daughter of Abraham Showalter.
Samuel Showalter, b 6 February, 1874, d 16 February, 1847, 10 days. Son of John S. Showalter.
SOURCE: Information thought to have been gathered at the time of the Showalter reunion on the "Old Showalter Homestead" in 1905, in the possession of Marjorie Smith.

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