Starting in 1993 when I was doing research on old cemeteries of Henry County, Mr. Richard Ratcliff of Spiceland mentioned the old Pauper's cemetery on the grounds of the Henry county home. Like everyone else I had never even thought of a cemetery being there. He told me the lady who worked there when the home closed around 1988 probably knew where the records were. I was never able to contact her, but after contacting the County Auditor Judy Bunner we were able to locate most of them, the early records (1839 - 1855) were destroyed in a fire in 1855.
    I started going through the old records and soon realized that some where on the county home property there were quite a few burials. I contacted Mr. John McGrady who's family has been associated with the Memorial Park grounds for many years and who is presently a county commisioner, and tried to get as much information from him that I could. We met at the Memorial Park and he showed me where the last known burial grounds were. On the hill above the new Veteran's Memorial in the south-east corner was the last burial at the county home. (He had no idea where the old one was). These burials were taken to the old north 14th street cemetery sometime in the 1920s.

All records after 1900 were more detailed on the inmates, such as family, marital status and personal history.
All history is taken from 'Hazzard's History of Henry County', Vol. # 2
Compiled by; : U. E. Bush 1998