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THOMAS SINEX FAMILY VAULT
FAIRVIEW CEMETERY
NEW ALBANY, FLOYD COUNTY, INDIANA
Historical facts on Fairview Cemetery which was given in a talk before
the Floyd County Historical Society, Tuesday April 28, 1953, by Harold
McCullock, Clerk of the Fairview Cemetery Board.
Fairview, New Albany's oldest cemetery is the burial site for some of
the area's earliest settlers. Records of 1840 show the cemetery was
known then as Old Northern Burial Grounds. Headstones show even earlier
dates. The exact date of the first burial is unknown.
One of the older structures is the Thomas Sinex mausoleum (pictured
below) with the first burial in it dated 1850. It was in 1850 Thomas
Sinex built a vault to accomodate 42 caskets, 30 of which have been used
to date (assuming this is date of the meeting noted above). The Sinex
Vault was sealed on December 4, 1978. Note that some names were spelled
different. They were often spelled the way they sounded. This was not
always the right way.
The Thomas Sinex Family Vault
| WEST SIDE |
| THOMAS SINEX Lot 16-17-23-24-Range 16 Plot #3 Date Aug 1852 |
| | PERSON | | | DATE |
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| | 6. | | | |
| | 7. | | | |
| | 8. | | | |
| | 9. E. W. SINEX | | | |
| | 10. C. K. SINEX | | | |
| Burial #9059 | 11. W. W. WOODFELL | | | Sept 1886 or 1836 |
| | | | | date not clear |
| | 12. | | |
| Burial #10211 | 13. D. C. ANTHONY | | | 3-15-1891 |
| | 14. FRANCIS LAKE | | | 12-4-1858 |
| | 15 | | | |
| Burial #13008 | 16. J. K. SINEX | | | 4-14-1903 |
| | 17. JOHN ISENHOUR | | | 1949 |
| Burial #18237 | 18. ZERELDA WOODFILL HUNCELMAN | | | 1923 |
| | 19. | | | |
| Burial #23389 | 20. EDW. WALTER EAKIN | | | |
| | 21. MARY JANE LAKE | | | 4-30-52 |
| Burial #21722 | 23. EDW. B. WOODFILL | | | 1-06-1937 |
| Burial #15010 | 24. H. C. WALKER | | | 1-25-1911 |
| Burial #19386 | 25. JOHN R. HUNCELMAN | | | 1927 |
| | 26. FLORA A. HUNCELMAN | | | 1962 |
| Burial #14019 | 27. MILTON YOUNG STAPP | | | 1948 |
| | 28. IRENE WEST | | | 3-1-1955 |
| | 29. | | | |
| | 30. | | | |
| Burial #26935 | 31. IDA WOODFILL | | | 1965 |
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| | 34. | | | |
| Burial #24769 | 35. MATTIE SINEX EISENBOUR | | | 8-18-1918 |
| WEST SIDE |
| WEST SIDE
NUMBERED SOUTH TO NORTH |
29 30 31 32 33 34 35
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
08 09 10 11 12 13 14
01 02 03 04 05 06 07
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EAST SIDE |
| THOMAS SINEX FAMILY VAULT A.D. 1850 Lot 16-17-23-24 Range 16 Plot |
| AUG 1852 SINEX VAULT SHOW ON MAP IN PLOT 9 |
| | PERSON | | YEAR DIED |
| Grave | 1. HULDA WEST | | 1836 |
| | 2. SOLOMAN WEST | | 1855 |
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| | 8. FLORA WEST SINEX | | 1896 |
| | DAUGHTER OF HULDA JANE WOODFELL WEST | | |
| | 9. THOMAS SINEX | | 1870 |
| Burial #6189 | 10. HULDAH JANE WOODFELL | | 1873 |
| | 11. ALBERT LE ROY SINEX | | 1868 |
| | 12. ZERALDON CAROLINE SINEX | | 1888 |
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| | 15. | | |
| | 16. FLORA SINEX | | 1864 |
| | 17. | | |
| Burial #10154 | 18. JAMES W. SPENCE | | 1891 |
| | 19. CHARLES EDWARD SPENCE | | 1864 |
| Burial #12011 | 20. WILLIAM G. SINEX | | 1899 |
| | 21. | | |
| | 22. SOLOMAN W. ANNA M. FLORA E. SINEX | | NO DATES |
| | 23. ELIZABETH SINEX | | 1832 |
| Burial #1529B | 25. MARY E. SINEX | | 1853 |
| | 26. HATTIE and EMMA SPENCE | | NO DATES |
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| EAST SIDE |
| WEST SIDE
NUMBERED NORTH TO SOUTH |
29 30 31 32 33 34 35
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
08 09 10 11 12 13 14
01 02 03 04 05 06 07
Since I was very curious of this vault, purchased and established for
the Thomas Sinex family, I thought I would see what I could find out
about it and I put a Query online and the answer I received was as
follows:
[Reply of query]:
While at the New Albany-Floyd County Public Library, the question was
asked one of the ladies working on the Fairview Cemetery Volumes and who
researches the owner of each gravesite if there were a way to find out
who is buried in the Sinex vault. She said that it was also used as a
"holding place" for bodies that could not be buried in the winter or
until a grave could be dug at that time. Then the bodies were removed,
but rarely was it noted when the body was actually removed from the
vault and put into a grave. According to records, there are about 100
bodies buried in the vault, since it was not always recorded when one
was removed, but the vault is not nearly that big, so we know better.
Since the vault was sealed, it is probably impossible to know who is
still buried in the vault. It would be my guess that since it was
sealed, they left only members of the Sinex family, spouses, and
children inside the vault. [End of reply]
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Thomas Sinex & wife Flora (nee West) were my 3rd great grandparents.
Solomon West & wife Huldah Jane (nee Winfield) and being the parents of
Flora were my 4th great grandparents.
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