DIXON CEMETERY 
FRANKLIN TWP  
NE 1/4 Sec 4
39 51 29N Latitude; 86 50 55W Longitude
 
This cemetery is on private property. Obtain permission from property owner before visiting this cemetery.
Directions:
Go west of Roachdale on US 236 about two miles to Co Rd 50W. Turn right on 50W going north to where the road curves to the east, then back north. Continue north about ¼ mile. There is a lane at the edge of two fields to the right (east). Follow this lane to the fence. Follow the fence east, then south, then back east again. Go to the extreme northeast corner of this field. The cemetery is just across the fence in the woods.
Condition: Good
Cemetery is in woods near the edge of a cultivated field. With the owner’s permission, we cut sapling trees in this cemetery and performed a general clean up of fallen trees and underbrush in the fall 2003 and reset some stones. There are a few large monoliths that are leaning and could stand to be reset.
The number at the left of each name corresponds with the map of the cemetery.
* = computed birth
Birth Death Age
Surname First Name Other inscriptions M D Y M D Y Y M D
1 DIXON Charles W.     Dec 6 1848 Oct 1 1898      
2 DIXON Olie     * Aug 12 1881 Jan 29 1888 6 5 17
3 DIXON Henry L.     * Feb 16 1818 July 5 1886 68 4 19
4 DIXON Phebe  w/o H. L.   Feb   1818 Oct 21 1861      
5a WEST Catharine   w/o Nicholas  * Apr 15 1797 Oct 10 1841 44 5 25
5b WEST Margaret J.   d/o N. & C.   * Feb 16 1823 Oct 26 1841 18 8 10
6 DIXON Nancy   w/o H. L.     Nov 7 1813 May 10 1842      
7 DIXON Ebenezer     * Mar 15 1770 Sept 15 1855 85 6  
8 DIXON Margaret  w/o Eben   * about   1776 July 25 1842 66    
9 DIXON George J. s/o E. & E.  * July 22 1846 Jan 19 1850 3 5 28
10 KELSEY Rhonda H.  second wife of Nicholas West   Nov 31 1812 Nov 15 1882 69 11 15
11 WEST Nicholas     * Jan 19 1799 Nov 21 1864 65 10 2
12a HOWARD Susannah   w/o William   * July 10 1798 Mar 5 1878 79 7 23
12b HOWARD William     * Jan 30 1793 Apr 6 1861 68 2 7
12c HOWARD George     * Apr 14 1825 July 17 1857 32 3 10
13 SHEPHERD William A.     * May 7 1822 July 17 1851 29 2 10
14 SHEPHERD Infant  s/o W. A. & N. Shepherd (no age)         Apr 1 1848      
15 HOWARD Mary J. w/o T. L.    * Apr 21 1834 Jan 1 1873 38 8 11
16 DARNALL Nicholas L.     * Feb 1 1846 June 17 1855 9 4 16
* Stone of Catharine and Margaret J. West has an inscription that reads:
erected by two of her children, E (Emily) Darnall paid $185 & N (Nancy) Strader paid $50