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Lindsey Cemetery / Makemson Mill and Distillery
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Lindsey Cemetery, located one-half mile east, is the burial place of pioneer settlers, including four Revolutionary War veterans who were Rangers of the Frontiers from 1778 to 1783: Capt. Thomas Moore, Capt. William Moore, Lt. David Lindsey, and John Makemson. The cemetery plot was set aside about 1800 by David Lindsey, who brought his family here about 1780. On adjacent Mill Creek, Makemson Mill and Distillery operated in the early 1800s on land purchased in 1795 by the Makemson, or McKemson, family, who intermarried with the Lindseys. David Lindsey was appointed Harrison County's first coroner in 1794, and John and Andrew Makemson were appointed surveyors in 1807.
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