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Hancock Cemetery, 62-2 Summary Report, page 16

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•raft COUMTr 4L* tU To"?>hhi o otm* oixisjoi of couprr Y Nivt of ,sTrruTio Y The problem with all of these census records for Thomas / Tom and C. / Charley Hancock is that they don't match at all between 1900 and 1910. The ages are grossly different, and the birthplaces don't agree, plus the family member names are all diverse between the censuses. There was nothing found to even remotely fit for a Thomas or an M. C. Hancock in the 1920 or 1930 census records of Madison County. The only thing that the census records provide is insight that the Hancock families that may have matched the land records of the early 1900s in Madison County were “colored”. However, none of them lived near the Hancock Cemetery, 62-2, location. Still, it may be that one or more of these Hancocks was buried in the Hancock Cemetery location or in the cemetery that got moved to the adjacent Indian Creek Cemetery, 62-3. At least one of the land records, the one involving Madkin Mountain and the rock quarry, was near the cemetery that was moved to Indian Creek. Furthermore, the old photo shown in the Indian Creek Cemetery Summary Report seems to include an adult-sized transfer coffin, whereas all of the graves known to exist in the Indian Creek Cemetery appear to be for children. That implies that if an adult was removed from the area near the intersection of Toftoy Thruway and Neal Road in Section 29, then that adult was not reburied in Indian Creek 16 - (2285)    

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