Hooker Cemetery
Established 1834
A Historic Cemetery Listed in
Indiana’s Cemetery and Burial Grounds
Registry of the Indiana Department of
Natural Resources
Installed 2006 Indiana Historical Bureau
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side one
Local team was important Indiana precursor to modern professional football organizations. Clinton Beckett introduced football to Pine Village High School 1898. Town and high school teams played on bottomland, northwest of here, . . . — — Map (db m8559) HM
Abraham Lincoln made his only speech in Warren
County, Indiana near this
spot Feb. 11, 1861.“Gentlemen of Indiana: I am happy to meet you on this occasion, and enter again the state of my early life, and almost of maturity. I am under . . . — — Map (db m5490) HM
In the yard of this home is visible the trail followed by the heavy wagons of the Army under Gen. Harrison passing here on the way to Tippecanoe, November 3, 1811 — — Map (db m41400) HM
Wm. Henry Harrison's army camped one mile southwest of here at the Old Gopher Hill Cemetery Nov. 3, 1811 and Nov. 11, 1811 in route to and from the Battle of Tippecanoe. Several soldiers injured during the battle were buried there. — — Map (db m177430) HM
On September 15, 1838, about 860 Potawatomi Indians camped near here on the forced removal from Indiana to Kansas. They had to camp by a dirty stream. Two small children who died on the trek from Williamsport were buried at this camp. — — Map (db m32495) HM
Nov. 3, 1811
Harrison’s Army
Camped on the West side of this grove near a spring, on his way to Tippecanoe. On his return trip he again camped here and buried two soldiers who had been wounded at The Battle of Tippecanoe. — — Map (db m41401) HM
In 1838 a band of over 800 Potawatomi Indians were forcibly removed from their homeland in Northern Indiana and marched to Eastern Kansas. Many died along the trail during the two month trek. This mournful caravan traveled this road on September 14, . . . — — Map (db m9307) HM
About 850 Potawatomi Indians camped here near Williamsport September 14, 1838. Two deaths occurred in the evening. Three chiefs were transported in a jail wagon because they refused to leave their beloved homeland in Indiana. — — Map (db m32620) HM
This monument is dedicated to those
Patriots laid to rest in Warren County
Indiana whose Service and Sacrifice
helped form our Nation during the
American Revolution
( Row One )
Humphrey Beckett ▫ Richard Biddlecomb . . . — — Map (db m60173) WM
Williamsport, Warren County Seat, was home, 1879 - 1896, of James Frank Hanly, Governor of Indiana,
1905 - 1909. The courthouse, built 1907, was designed by J. W. Royer, Urbana, Illinois. Warren County was established 1827. — — Map (db m7951) HM