VAUSE FAMILY CEMETERY

 

Is also known as Indian Lakes Cemetery on the GPS devices.  It is Parcel #03-11-23-0000-0250-0000.   Deed Book 19 Page 172 October 17, 1890.  This small family cemetery is located at 156 Indian Lakes Road. 

 

From Interlachen, take SR 20 west until the junction of CR 21 at Johnson Crossroads.  Turn left on CR 21, just before the Dollar General.  Go south on CR 21 3.5 miles to Vause Lake Road.  Shortly after doing so, you will come upon a fork in the road.  The right fork is Indian Lakes Road.  Turn onto the right fork and stay on Indian Lakes Road about 1/2 mile.  Cemetery is on the right.   It has been cleared of underbrush and trees, fenced, and has a sign on the fence.

 

Ms Nancy Vause is the owner and caretaker of the cemetery.  She became aware of the cemetery and that she was heir to it around ten years ago, and started working to recover and restore it.  When the Cemetery Task force visited the site in 1999, it was declared abandoned, with very little evidence of graves.  Thanks to Ms. Nancy it is no longer.  At her own expense, she has cleared, pruned, researched, located and marked the unmarked graves.  This included hiring ground imaging radar surveyors, which is NOT cheap.  The markers, with the exception of William James Vause, are hand made concrete, with the names impressed by Ms Nancy.  She hopes to replace them with granite later on as finances permit.

 

There are five known graves.  These are Ms Nancy’s great-great grandparents, great grandparents, and one great uncle. 

 

This week (June 5, 2017) Ms. Nancy contacted us through the website, asking to be included in the Cemetery Project.  Naturally we are happy to oblige.  This made our day!!  We visited June 8, 2017, to photograph and interview Ms. Nancy.

 

KEUKA QUAD.   N 29o 33.929 W 81o 58.897.  (Maintained).

 

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LAST NAME

FIRST NAME

BIRTH

DEATH

COMMENTS (sic)

VOCATION/TRADE

MARKER

VAUSE

CHARLES ENGRAM

12/20/1804

6/1/1876

BORN IN LENIOR CO. NC

 

MARKER

VAUSE

JOHN DIXON

2/4/1843

11/19/1903

SON OF CHARLES.  BORN WILLIAMSBURG DISTRICT SC.  MARRIED TO MARY JOHNSON 9/20/1877

 

MARKER

VAUSE

MARY ANN JOHNSON

10/25/1854

1/14/1927

WIFE OF JOHN.  MARRIED 9/20/1877.  A MEMBER OF THE ‘JOHNSON CROSSROADS’ FAMILY.

 

MARKER

VAUSE

SARAH PATTERSON

12/22/1806

3/9/1882

 

 

MARKER

MARKER

VAUSE

WILLIAM JAMES

5/18/1827

4/6/1864

SON OF CHARLES.  BORN WILLIAMSBURG DISTRICT SC. 

 

JAMES’ WIDOW EMMA aka EMILY A, REMARRIED AND IS BURIED IN THE JOHNSON COMMUNITY CEMETERY.

 

MARKER

 

 

Last updated 7/12/2017

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