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Jonas Howard Sr. BIRTH 1773 Vermont, USA DEATH 1816 (aged 42-43) Jeffersonville, Clark County, Indiana, USA BURIAL Old City Cemetery Jeffersonville, Clark County, Indiana, USA MEMORIAL ID 131381396 The Howard family was practically coeval with the organization of Clark county, Ind. and have been prominently connected with all of its subsequent history and development. Jonas Howard, the pioneer founder, was a native of Vermont, of English descent and started to the West before Indiana had been admitted to the Union as a state. The route traveled was by way of the Allegheny river to Pittsburgh and thence down the Ohio river on rafts and flat boats. When they landed at Jeffersonville, the surrounding country was still clothed in primeval forests. Jonas Howard, who had been a farmer in his native state, lived but a few months after reaching Indiana Territory, his life being shortened by an attack of bilious fever. He had, however, left a son and namesake, who was sixteen years old at the time of his father's arrival and proved worthy to take up and carry on to success the work mapped out by the old pioneer. p. 440, Captain Lewis C. Baird, Baird’s History of Clark County, Indiana, B.F. Brown Company, Publishers, Indianapolis, Indiana 1909. Bilious Fever: The term is obsolete and no longer used, but was used by medical practitioners in the 18th and 19th centuries for any fever that exhibited the symptom of nausea or vomiting in addition to an increase in internal body temperature and strong diarrhea, which were thought to arise from disorders of bile, the two types of which were two of the four humours of traditional Galenic medicine. It was often cited as a cause on death certificates. United States President Abraham Lincoln's son William Wallace Lincoln was said to have died from bilious fever. Modern diagnoses for the same symptoms would include a wide range of conditions and infections, such as malaria. JEFFERSONVILLE OLD CITY CEMETERY and MULBERRY STREET CEMETERY Jeffersonville Township, Clark County, Indiana The following is excerpted from page 447 of History of the Ohio Falls Counties, published in 1882: "The first general burying-ground known [in Jeffersonville] was located on the river front, between Spring and Pearl Streets. It was between Front Street and the [Ohio] river, for, strange as it may seem to the people of to-day, there were reserved between Front Street and the river a row of lots fronting nearly the entire original plat of the town. Next adjoining the river, and on the bank, was Water Street, which is still accessible would be not far from the present ferry wharf-boat at low water. The river encroached so rapidly on the bank at this point that it was thought best to grade down the bluff and pave a levee. The contract for this grading was let to Mr. J. H. McCampbell, who prosecuted the work to completion. Many bodies were found buried during the grading, the hard walnut cases having withstood the action of the soil through some forty years. The remains were carefully gathered together and moved to the old cemetery, between Market and Maple Streets, west of Mulberry, w[h]ere they were again buried, the city procuring an appropriate monument, which was placed on the spot. "The old cemetery between Chestnut and Market Streets has been used so many years that no one can now tell when the first burial took place in it. This ground has not been used since 1862, an ordinance passed in May of that year forbidding its further use. "Long before this time Walnut Ridge Cemetery was located in the northern part of the city, where the dead were buried. In 1864, a tract of five acres was bough adjoining the eastern limits of the city, which was set apart by action of the council in August, the management being vested in a board consisting of five directors. In addition to this, the members of the Catholic churches purchased grounds nearby where the dead of that faith are buried." This would be St. Anthony's Cemetery on Eighth Street, adjacent to Eastern Cemetery, formerly known as Chestnut Grove Cemetery. The city’s first “official” cemetery, laid out in 1802, contains several hundred burials. No records were kept of the burials and no abstract of stones was ever done and there have been no stones for at least one hundred years. One can reasonably conclude that those buried here were the early residents of Fort Finney/Steuben and of Jeffersonville who died between 1787 and 1838, the year Walnut Ridge Cemetery was established north of the city. In 1849, Chestnut Grove Cemetery [later known as "Eastern Cemetery"] was opened east of Jeffersonville on Graham Street . The Old City Cemetery continued to be used until 1862. Floods and vandals have removed the few stones and a playground and ballpark cover the site, which is on Mulberry Street at the foot of Chestnut Street.
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