The George M. Small Cemetery
by Jim Small
Revised 25 Jan. 2001
Additions submitted by
Norma Small Miller
The George Small Cemetery is southeast of Boonville IN, located on his farm. It is still in the Small family, owned by Herman and Norma Small Miller of Mayo MD.
Note: Parenthesis are not part of cemetery record but to clarify who the individual is.
George M. (McNeely) Small
Apr 4 1803
May 23 1865
Easther McCool (w/o George M.)
Mar. 20 1809
Nov. 16 1874
George W. (Washington) Small (s/o Geo. & Easther)
January 09, 1835
November 26, 1916
Nancy Jane Smith (w/o Geo. W.)
September 07, 1846
April 13, 1894
Harold Lewis Small (s/o John T. Small)
4 Jun 1908
17 Sept. 1936
Della, wife of S. Small (G. Sherman Small, son of Lewis)
died 7-6-1900, age 20 years
Clifford Daniel Small (s/o John T. Small)
29 Sept 1901
8 Jun 1923
Roy, son of S. & D. Small (George Sherman and Della Lorance)
died 12-19-1899
age 2 yrs. 11 m. (b 10-19-1897)
John Thomas Small (s/o Lewis B.)
11-5-1867
8-17-1942
Davis M. Small
11-7-1872 (s/o G.W. and Nancy Small)
7-13-1873
George Sherman Small
b. 1865 d.
Della (Lorance, his wife)
b 1880 d.7-6-1900
Blanche May Small (d/o John and Melissa Green Small)
b. 5-28-1899 d. 8-20-1923
Harrold Lewis Small (s/o John T. & M.)
b. 6-4-1908 d.9-17-1936
Clova Pauline Small (d/o John T. Small& M.)
b. 10-25-1910 d. 1-1-1926
Three identical Stones now illegible
(d/o Lewis and Mary Z. Luce Small)
Mary Jeanette Small Marts Charles Marts Jacob Marts
Opal Gertrude Reynolds
b. 3-4-1915 d. ?
(stillborn d/o Robert Ingersoll and Mary Wheeler Reynolds)
(gr. dau of Mary J. and sister to George Reynolds)
Charles T. Small (s/o Lewis and Mary Z. Luce Small)
b. 1862 d. 8-20-1885
David Leamon Smith (s/o Thomas and Elizabeth Leamon Smith)
b. 1810 d. 2-4-1892 (Father of Nancy Smith Small)
Two graves marked by a cedar Tree (no stones)
children of William & Easter Small Brown
Jim Woods (grave location unknown)
Ollie Grace McGinnis
28 Aug 1891
10 May 1909
Nellie Belle McGinnis
7 Nov 1891
11 Apr. 1914
Hearold Cain (s/o Ruby L. Small and Etchel Cain)
July 1923
Nov. 1924
Source:
research trip 1975
Norma Small Miller letter dated Jan 2001
The farm is located on Two Story road about 3 1/2 miles SE of Boonville In. The cemetery is on a hill about midway
of the eastern boundary line of the 35.9 acres of land which George McNeely Small purchased from the Federal Land
Office at Vincenes in 1840. This farm passed by will to his son, George Washington Small; then to his son, Henry
Berton Small; then to his daughter Norma Small Miller, a retired researcher of the Surname Small.
On the 8th July 1954, H. B. Small filed a paper in Warrick County Circuit Court stating: "The Cemetery is
privately owned....it is my desire to establish this plot as a shrine to the memory of my father and mothe, the
late George W. and Nancy J. Smith Small."
Hettie M. Small Bracher, daughter of G. W. Small; lived on the farm as a gril and spent the rest of her life on
a nearby farm. She was keely interested in family and the family cemetery. In 1975 she told me that Aunt Easter
Small Brown had buried two young children there and had marked their graves by planting a cedar tree between them.
She thought Jim Woods, father-in-law of Lewis Small, was buried west of Davis L. Smith. "Uncle Lewis was
said to have buried two or three married daughters in the NE corner." (H.B. Small)
In 1978 Beautes Small Johnson told me that her father told her that his grandfather had set aside 1/4 acre for a family cemetery. The grandfather was George M. Small.
Possibly the first person to have been buried here was the oldest child of G. M. Small, Patrick Henry Small. Patrick is listed as 23 years of age on the 1850 census.
Several graves do not have markers. Vandalized, some stones had to be replaced. Kenneth Small made and installed markers for his family about 1960. When Lewis Small died he was buried at Maple Grove Cem. and his stone was moved from the Small cemetery. This stone may, originally, have been placed next to Lewis Small's daughter's grave as Mary J. Small Reynolds Marts vital statistics, are engraved on the side of Lewis' stone at Maple Grove. (She is buried in the G. M. Small Cemetery.)
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