Notes for: John Milton TUELL
John Milton Tuell and his wife Frances Payton Tuell are believed to be burried at the Shoemaker-Tuell Cemetery in Harrison County. The cemetery is on land he had the original land grant for in Section 8 of Posey Twp. Harrison County, Indiana. Of the readable stones; three are his children, 2 are son-in-laws, five are grandchildren and one great grandchild. Another daughter, Nancy and her husband Enos W. Kerr have been positively identified as being buried here but unmarked.
John Milton Tuell is the son of Charles Tuell (b. 1756-apx. 1817) and Nancy Fitzgerald (apx. 1758 - apx. 1832).
He married first Elizabeth McKee on July 24, 1810 and second married Frances Payton on February 18, 1819.
Both marriages taken place in Harrison County, Indiana. John fathered at least 14 known children. Four by his first wife, Elizabeth, and ten or eleven by his second wife Frances.
He was also a Veteran of the war of 1812. He was part of the Harrison Co., militia having served under Captain John Hughes from 6 March to 6 April 1813 and then serving under Capt. John Beck from 13 May to 27 May 1813.
His obituary reads: In Posey township, on December 30th, 1870, Mr. John Tuell, in his 83rd year. Mr. Tuell came to this county in 1809, since which time he has been identified with the history of our county, in such a way as to win the esteem of all. He was for seventy years a worthy and leading member of the Baptist Church. (John was a trustee of Hopewell Baptist Church and cemetery in Franklin twp., Floyd County, Indiana which is less than a mile from Shoemaker/Tuell cemetery). The Shoemaker/Tuell cemetery is also referred to as Kerr Hill or Skunk Hollow Hill cemetery.
The whereabouts of the burials for John Milton Tuell's first wife Elizabeth and the four children they had are unknown. However, it has been mentioned that Elizabeth and her son William died in Sep. 1818 during a cholera epidemic. There is a section of unmarked graves at Rose Hill in the town of Elizabeth for a group of people that died during a cholera epidemic around that same period.
John Tuell bought 120 acres from Aaron Blunk on July 18, 1822. This land adjoined the land of Revolutionary War Vet. Lewis Payton, his father-in-law. Any of the children that died between 1822 and 1831 could be buried in the cemetery with Lewis Payton but in unmarked graves.