HIGHLAND
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BEAVER BURIAL GROUND

(Paint twp. 1 1/2 mile SW of Rainsboro, on SR 70)

The Beaver family, also associated with the mills along Rocky Fork Creek, had thie own private burial plot. Thomas Beaver, born in Virginia, in 1766, moved to a farm in 1809. By 1820, he had purchased land on Blinco Creek, on Stressley Survey No. 2509. When his death occurred, October 11, 1844, a plot was selected for a burial ground.

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