I was wondering if anyone lives near Springdale Cemetary or Manville Cemetary and was willing to take some pictures of gravestones of family members for me. I'm willing to pay for gas cost for your time. Thanks.

I'm also looking to find cemetary maps and plots/burial dates for Springdale & Manville Cemetaries.

I live near their have you tried to contact them , for a copy of a map?
Just give me the names I will see what I can do I got a few days off at the first of the month.
My in-laws are down their.
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Kimberly Schwab

Try this site for Manville Cemetery
http://www.myindianahome.net/gen/jeff/records/cemetery/milma...

Springdale Cemetery
http://www.myindianahome.net/gen/jeff/records/cemetery/sdind...

In reply to both questions, there is no map or record of burials for Manville. I'm not sure about a map of Springdale. I do know that the Sexton's records are in the Jefferson County Historical Society, filed by year and not indexed. I seem to remember the cemetery itself may not have complete records.

If you don't get any other help, I'll be at home upstream from Manville (two miles) from July 1-16 with a camera.

Thanks for all your help. I called and left a message a while back and never got a call back. It's been at least 3 weeks. I don't know if the sexton there is lazy or just is never there or what the case is.

Yes if you can help that would be appreciated. I have two family members supposively buried at Manville. Unfortunately, the Manville Cemetary records only list one of those two people. The other person is the wife of the one listed and some of her family is buried there so I'm sure she is there too but just not listed in their records. Springdale is the same way. I don't think their records are complete because there are a couple members that are supposively buried there but the Springdale record list on the county site doesn't have them all listed. I'm not sure if it's just not a complete list or what's going on there.

What you see on the Web, if you went to myindianhome.net, is pretty much what's there. I don't think I missed many stones when I retranscribed the cemetery. The DAR did, so if you only have those records, there's hope

Who is the family.

Ames family mostly.

I can state with confidence that Aaron Ames is the only person of that name with a marked grave at Manville Cemetery. Of course, there's lots of unmarked ones.

The only records Manville has is a list of members going back to probably the beginning. Many names don't have dates, although they were entered chronologically so the ones that don't can at least be said to fit betweens the ones that do. There are only a few years of minutes in the early 1900s.

Aaron was member No. 3 on the list, meaning if was probably an original member, although it's not clear that the list was actually started in 1830 or 1831 when the church formed.
There is an F.M. Ames, member No. 17, A Francis Ames Jr. joined on 24 Nov. 1850 and was member No. 101. John Ames joined the same day as No. 113; Sarah as No. 133 joined sometime between that date and March 1860, the next clear date on the list.

And that's all the people named Ames who were on the membership roll.