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consisting of -156 acres, of its dense growth of timber and -placed his iLfields under an "excellent state of cultivation." He was one"of"the early-',,,. al supporters of the Methodist church. While in Ohio in 1832 Watkins - married Sarah Kollars, daughter of Adam and Esther Kollars. Mr. and Mrs. Watkins became parents of fourteen children -- six sons and eight daughters -- two of whom died in infancy. Sarah Watkins passed away in 1910 at the age of ninety-three,-and_was--_- -- interred here. As a widow, Sarah Watkins proved to be a good business woman; while residing on, and managing, the family farm she continued the family business and made extra income from renters. Also buried here was George W. Watkins, son of L. and R.A. Watkins, who died in infancy on June 12, 1866 at the age of six months. LOVELL William Lovell died on November 26, 1917. He was born in Ohio on December 4, 1843. He lived in the community for forty years after moving here from Cleveland. He served in the Civil War within the 14th. Ohio Battery, light artillery and was wounded at the Battle of Shiloh. He was married in 1866 to Rebecca Matthews; they had three sons and a daughter. Rebecca Lovell was born in 1846 and died in 1889, also being buried in the cemetery. JOSIAH BARTLETT osiah Bartlett, the third soldier buried in the Centre Township cemetery, as with Company C, 18th Regiment of the New Hampshire Volunteers during he Civil War. He later fought in the army at the Big Horn and Yellowstone campaigns as a private. His wife, Hannah Bartlett, who died on April 14, 1894, was also buried here. NOTES 1. Richard V. Francaviglia, "The Cemetery As an Evolving Cultural Landscape." Annals of the Association of American Geoeravhers 61 (1971):502. 2. Roger Hall and Bruce Bowden, "Beautifying the Boneyard: The Changing Image of the Cemetery in Nineteenth -Century Ontario." Material History .' Bulletin 23 (1986): 13-14. 3. Francaviglia, 501-502. . An Illustrated Historical Atlas of St. Josevh Countv. Indiana, (Higgins elden & Co., Chicago: 1875): 14. 5. Deed Record: Book 0: 618. 6. Deed Record: Book R: 229. 7. Deed Record: Book P: 424. 4