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Sesquicentennial
Celebration
Liberty ~ Graham Baptist Church, Butlerville,
Jennings County, Indiana
FROM THE ABSTRACT OF GRAHAM CHURCH PROPERTY
John and Martha Hicklin donated to the Church in 1842- 2 acres with the
following stipulation:
'to use and benefit of said Church so long as they wish to occupy it
as a place for the Church meeting house and further more it is agreed
should the wish to change their place of meeting for worship they may
sell and remove their house and all other improvements but the right of
said land to return to said Hicklins, their heirs or assigns'
This land joins the acre of land where the Church was built known as
the Hughes land. Today
it is the eastern part of the Church yard. The
one acre where the Church now stands was not deeded to the Church until
1874 when Beniah and Lucy Fall sold it to the Church for $50.00.
In 1960 Mr. & Mrs. Harley Boltz donated a small strip of land that
extended that part of the Church yard east to the iron bridge. The Church
property now consists of 3 acres more or less, plus the parsonage lot in
San Jacinto, Bigger Township, Jennings County, Indiana.
In 1899 Nelson and Sarah Johnson sold a plot of land south of the road,
that is used I as a graveyard. In 1960 another plot of land was purchased
by Chester Callicotte of the Boltz family and added to the existing
graveyard, extending it to the top of .the hill. In the spring of 1979,
the heirs of Vernon Brooks gave
about 1 acre of
land directly south of the Church property and west of the present
graveyard to the Graham Baptist Cemetary Association. The ground was
surveyed and work began on the new cemetary addition in the summer of
1979.
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