164. Lost Graveyards: Hankins Cemetery, Perry Township

            This cemetery, No. 71 on the 1939 WPA survey, was called the “Isaac Hankins Farm” cemetery, and it was just north of Lick Creek. On the 1889 Marion County Atlas the property was owned by “S. Hankins” and “P. Hankins.”

 

 The circled H in the modern map shows where the cemetery might have been located:

The newspaper article describes the final fate of the site: