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Pioneer
Cemeteries and Their Stories, Madison County, Indiana |
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Pioneer
Cemeteries and Their Stories, Madison County, Indiana |
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aka Lapel Town/Fishersburg/Old Lapel
Location: northeast corner of CRs 300S and 900W/950W
The modern cemetery association that is now called Brookside started out as the burial ground for the first settlement in Stony Creek Township in the 1830s, Fishersburg. The Fishersburg Cemetery was a distance to the southeast from Fishersburg. With the coming of the railroad in the 1870s, Lapel was developed as a station and became the bigger of the two adjacent community centers. Lapel was, as it turned out, actually closer to the Fishersburg Cemetery than Fishersburg was and therefore utilized and expanded the cemetery's services.
The old Fishersburg Cemetery--modern Brookside--has also been called Lapel Town Cemetery and Old Lapel Cemetery. It contains the graves of the two men who designed Lapel: David Conrad, 1828-1919, and Samuel E. Busby, 1828-1913, along with numerous members of their families. The Fisher family, for whom Fishersburg derives its name, is also well represented. The oldest grave with a legible stone is that of William Aldred/Alred, one of the pioneer settlers to Stony Creek Township in 1836. William was born in 1795 and died in 1870. (For more history on Fishersburg and Lapel, go to the Stony Creek Township page.)
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The graves of William Alred, 1795-1870, and wife Eliza Denny, 1805-1875, are the oldest legible markers at Brookside. They are located just north of the flag. William, whose stone is on the right, is listed as a settler in Stony Creek Township, having arrived in 1836. At that time, Fishersburg was the only township community and Lapel was forty years in the future. |
Click here for a list in .pdf format of burials with headstones.