Green Township

Location: north side of CR 1025 (Reformatory Road), between SR 13 and bridge crossing Lick Creek

    The Fausset Cemetery is a burial ground for one of the prominent families of Green Township in its early years.  In particular, Robert Fausset, whose gravestone says he was eighty-eight when he died in 1873, is singled out by the 1880 History of Madison County, Indiana as an example of the industrious, hard-working early settler.  He is also pictured on page 87 of that book.  Robert was born in Delaware.  Adventuresome, he constructed a flat bottom boat to take his family down the Ohio River.  He and his family stayed in Ohio for four years.  Robert was drafted for the War of 1812 but found a substitute.  He arrived in Madison County, via Franklin County, in 1839, purchased 160 acres in Green Township on Lick Creek, and built a sawmill which helped him acquire a considerable fortune for himself and his adult children.  He is buried in his family graveyard along with his two wives: Anna who died in 1840 and Elizabeth who died in 1864. 

    John K. Fausset, also buried at the Fausset Cemetery, was Robert's youngest son. John continued in his father's footsteps and authored the biography which appears in the history titled above.  John K.'s farm residence is pictured on page 108 of the same book.

Above are stones for other Fausset family members: left to right, Jacob, Robert, son of John K., and Sidney.

Below are the simpler stones for other early settlers along Lick Creek in Green Township. Top left, is that for Joshua, son of Joseph Chitwood, who died in 1843. His brown granite stone is quite legible when chalked.  Top right is for a child of the Wallace family who died in 1851.  Below are two stones for the wives of Jacob Hiday: left, Sarah who died in 1866 and right, Margaret who died in 1849.  While the latter is not listed on the burial record by some oversight, the Hidays were some of the very first settlers in all of Madison County.  (For more, go to the Hiday Cemetery page.)