WILLIAM HUFFMAN
Born: about 1741 in Rockingham County, Virginia
Died: August 1832 in White River Township, Randolph Co,In
Buried: Dunkirk Graveyard
Service:
Proof:
Married: Margaret NULL, daughter of Henry NULL and Margaret HARMAN
Children:
Stephen: Born 1782 - married Catherine ________
Elizabeth:
George: Born abt 1787
Margaret Rebecca: Born 1797
William: Born 1805
Adam
Henry D: Born July 15, 1803
Mary:
The surname HUFFMAN was spelled HOUGHMAN at places and in his will he reverted to it in reference to his wife and his give of land to her.
The information on this patriots spouse and children was provided by
Reta (HUFFMAN) COOPERRIDER, of Prescott Valley, Arizona.
She is a descendant through the son Stephen. She is waiting forms from National archives about his service.
INPCRP Cemetery Hall of Shame
DUNKIRK FRIENDS CEMETERY
White River Township
Randolph County, Indiana
Sherri Slater reports:
From Randolph Co., IN 1818-1990: "Located in the middle of a woods and abandoned many years, this was recently cleaned and stone reset. William Huffman, Revolutionary soldier is here, died in 1833. Former slave Willis Perry and his wife are here. Located south of county road 50 south between roads 300 and 400 west."
From History of Randolph Co., 1882, by Tucker: "Dunkirk Graveyard is one of the oldest in the county. It is full of graves, and doubtless contains the bodies of many old settlers. It has, however, but very few tombstones, and the places of burial of these ancient pioneers can never be known. Great numbers of rough, unlettered stones are found thickly set over the cemetery, and many unnoted hillocks raise their melancholy heads above the consectated ground, but they yield no token of the one who may chance to lie buried deep beneath them. Why should it be thus? And shall this state of things continue throught the ages to come? God forbid!"
That almost makes me chuckle, because 116 years later, upon my visit, the cemetery wasn't doing much better. The one article states the cemetery was cleaned and stones reset, but 5 years later when I visited, the cemetery was really in deplorable condition. Many of the stones were laying down, buried under the dirt. I had to dig a lot of the stones out to get photos, because I don't predict they will be around much longer. I have never seen gravestones just crumble and just turn back into a rock in the earth, but I saw it for the first time here. I just feel like someone should be keeping an eye on this place and be responsible for some upkeep. I have some ggggg grandparents buried here, and was pleased to find their stones intact.
January 7, 1998
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