THOMAS SINEX FAMILY VAULT
FAIRVIEW CEMETERY
NEW ALBANY, FLOYD COUNTY, INDIANA


Historical facts on Fairview Cemetery which was given in a talk before the Floyd County Historical Society, Tuesday  April 28, 1953, by Harold McCullock, Clerk of the Fairview Cemetery Board.

Fairview, New Albany's oldest cemetery is the burial site for some of the area's earliest settlers.  Records of 1840 show the cemetery was known then as Old Northern Burial Grounds.  Headstones show even earlier dates.  The exact date of the first burial is unknown.

One of the older structures is the Thomas Sinex mausoleum (pictured below) with the first burial in it dated 1850.  It was in 1850 Thomas Sinex built a vault to accommodate 42 caskets, 30 of which have been used to date (assuming this is date of the meeting noted above).  The Sinex Vault was sealed on December 4, 1978.  Note that some names were spelled different.  They were often spelled the way they sounded.  This was not always the right way.

 The Thomas Sinex Family Vault
 WEST SIDE
 THOMAS SINEX Lot 16-17-23-24-Range 16 Plot #3 Date Aug 1852
 

	PERSON	DATE
	1.
	2.
	3.
	4.
	5.
	6.
	7.
	8.
	9. E. W. SINEX
	10. C. K. SINEX
Burial #9059	11. W. W. WOODFELL	Sept 1886 or 1836
		date not clear
	12.
Burial #10211	13. D. C. ANTHONY	3-15-1891
	14. FRANCIS LAKE	12-4-1858
	15
Burial #13008	16. J. K. SINEX	4-14-1903
	17. JOHN ISENHOUR	1949
Burial #18237	18. ZERELDA WOODFILL HUNCELMAN	1923
	19.
Burial #23389	20. EDW. WALTER EAKIN
	21. MARY JANE LAKE	4-30-52
Burial #21722	23. EDW. B. WOODFILL	1-06-1937
Burial #15010	24. H. C. WALKER	1-25-1911
Burial #19386	25. JOHN R. HUNCELMAN	1927
	26. FLORA A. HUNCELMAN	1962
Burial #14019	27. MILTON YOUNG STAPP	1948
	28. IRENE WEST	3-1-1955
	29.
	30.
Burial #26935	31. IDA WOODFILL	1965
	32.
	33.
	34.
Burial #24769	35. MATTIE SINEX EISENBOUR	8-18-1918

 WEST SIDEWEST SIDE NUMBERED SOUTH TO NORTH 29  30  31  32  33  34  35
22  23  24  25  26  27  28
15  16  17  18  19  20  21
 08  09  10  11  12  13  14
01  02  03  04  05  06  07

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EAST SIDETHOMAS SINEX FAMILY VAULT A.D. 1850 Lot 16-17-23-24 Range 16 Plot
AUG 1852 SINEX VAULT SHOW ON MAP IN PLOT 9

 

	PERSON	YEAR DIED
Grave	1. HULDA WEST	1836
	2. SOLOMAN WEST	1855
	3.
	4.
	5.
	6.
	7.
	8. FLORA WEST SINEX	1896
	DAUGHTER OF HULDA JANE WINFIELD WEST
	9. THOMAS SINEX	1870
Burial #6189	10. HULDAH JANE WOODFELL	1873
	11. ALBERT LE ROY SINEX	1868
	12. ZERALDON CAROLINE SINEX	1888
	13.
	14.
	15.
	16. FLORA SINEX	1864
	17.
Burial #10154	18. JAMES W. SPENCE	1891
	19. CHARLES EDWARD SPENCE	1864
Burial #12011	20. WILLIAM G. SINEX	1899
	21.
	22. SOLOMAN W. ANNA M. FLORA E. SINEX	NO DATES
	23. ELIZABETH SINEX	1832
Burial #1529B	25. MARY E. SINEX	1853
	26. HATTIE and EMMA SPENCE	NO DATES
	27.
	28.
	29.
	30.
	31.
	32.
	33.
	34.
	35.

EAST SIDEWEST SIDE NUMBERED NORTH TO SOUTH

29  30  31  32  33  34  35
22  23  24  25  26  27  28
15  16  17  18  19  20  21
08  09  10  11  12  13  14
01  02  03  04  05  06  07

Since I was very curious of this vault, purchased and established for the Thomas Sinex family, I thought I would see what I could find out about it and I put a Query online and the answer I received was as follows:

[Reply of query]:

While at the New Albany-Floyd County Public Library, the question was asked of one of the ladies working on the Fairview Cemetery Volumes and who researches the owner of each gravesite, if there were a way to find out who is buried in the Sinex vault.  She said that it was also used as a "holding place" for bodies that could not be buried in the winter or until a grave could be dug at that time.  Then the bodies were removed, but rarely was it noted when the body was actually removed from the vault and put into a grave.  According to records, there are about 100 bodies buried in the vault, since it was not always recorded when one was removed, but the vault is not nearly that big, so we know better.  Since the vault was sealed, it is probably impossible to know who is still buried in the vault.  It would be my guess that since it was sealed, they left only members of the Sinex family, spouses, and
children inside the vault. [End of reply]

Thomas Sinex & wife Flora (nee West) were my 3rd great grandparents. Solomon West & wife Huldah Jane (nee Winfield) and being the parents of Flora were my 4th great grandparents.