The Benton County, Indiana Poor Farm Cemetery
OXFORD [Indiana] - Born in England, Bartlet Smith died of syphilis at the Benton County Poor Farm on Feb. 2, 1896. He was 52.
He had lived on the farm, four miles northeast of Oxford, for eight months. He lies in a pauper’s grave in the Poor Farm Cemetery.
It’s a sad, wind-blown little place … an […]