|  Genealogy Home   |  Rembert Family   |  Rickenbacker Family   |  Links  |

Old Rickenbacker Burial Ground

Gravestone data transcribed by J. E. Rickenbacker from a document in the Salley Archives.

scroll10x.gif (562 bytes)

The Old Rickenbacker Burial Ground and homestead was located about 700 feet West of Broughton Street, just North of Club Acres Drive (based on an eye witness account). This is the only burial ground we know of on the old Rickenbacker plantation and is almost certainly where Anna Burgi and Catharina Till were buried (Salley, pp 200, 210). It was probably also the final resting place for Heinrich Rickenbacher, Heini Rickenbacher and Anna Till although there is no documentation for where these three were buried.

In the early 1950s, the Club Acres area was subdivided and became a residential area. When the lot containing the burial ground was sold, all the graves and markers that could be found were moved to plot A-436 in Memorial Park Cemetery. The move took place on 16 Sep 1952. All of the markers found at that time were dated 1805 or later. After almost 200 years there was little evidence of earlier burials.

I was 9 years old at the time and can recall my parents discussing moving of the graves. Permission to move the graves was sought and was granted by at least two branches of the Rickenbacker family.

Following is my transcription of a document that was aparently created about the time the graves were moved. This is probably the best record of the gravestones as 50 years of additional weathering has taken its toll and many of the gravestones documented here are now barely legible.

Sacred
To The Memory
of
Jacob Rickenbacker
Who Departed This Life On The
11th Of February Anno Domini 1841
Aged 77 Years and 2 Months


Sacred
To The Memory
of
Margaret C. Rickenbaker
Who Died
July 16, 1811
Aged 41 Years and Nine Months


Sacred
To The Memory
of
Sarah A. Rowe
Who Died On The 27th
December 1837
Aged Nine Months and 3 Days


Sacred
To The Memory
of
George Rowe
Who Died
January 6, 1830
Aged 7 Years - Thirty Days

Sacred
To
The Memory of
William Sabb
Who Departed This Life
5th December 1805
Aged 55 Years


To
The Memory
of
Ann Rowe
Who Died 15th Day of April 1829
Aged 44 Years - 4 Months
And 2 Days


Sacred
To The Memory
of
Donald Rowe
Who Died the 29th of June 1851
Aged 54 Years, 5 Months
And Five Days


Little Julie
Daughter of
R. V. and Ann W. McMichael
Borned July 9, 1853
Died 15th October 1857
Aged 4 Years, 4 Months & 6 days

 

The Old Rickenbacker gravestones are next to the back fence on the left hand side of Memorial Park Cemetery. Photo courtesy of Jake Shuler.

gravestones.jpg

scroll10.gif (1268 bytes)

|  Genealogy Home   |  Rembert Family   |  Rickenbacker Family   |  Links  |


Copyright © by J. E. Rickenbacker. All rights reserved.

2-21-07