New Harmony Cemetery, New Harmony, Vigo County, IN
New Harmony Cemetery is located about 5½ miles north of Prairie Creek on St. Rd. 63, on the southwest
corner of the intersection of West Harlan Drive and St. Rd. 63. Note: This “New Harmony” is not related to
the historic New Harmony commune experiment in the early 1800’s near Evansville IN.
New Harmony Cemetery is the burial site for at least one of Ora’s ancestors:
Ebenezer Paddock Sr. – Latitude 39.3465 Longitude -87.5000
Keziah (Case) Paddock .... probably is also buried at New Harmony
William Paddock ... (Ebenezer & Keziah’s son) is also reported to have been buried at New Harmony
Note: I have been unable to locate any tombstone for Keziah or William at the Cemetery.
Ora descends from Ebenezer, as follows:
Ebenezer Paddock Sr. and Keziah (Case) Paddock - GrGrGrGrandparents
William Paddock and Sarah (Watts) Paddock – GrGrGrandparents
Lewis Paddock and Mary B. (Shattuck) Paddock - GrGrandparents
Richard Clement Watson and Amanda Melvina (Paddock) Watson - Grandparents
James Buchanan Watson and Clara E. (Devol) Watson - Parents
Ora Frances (Watson) Piety
Ebenezer Paddock was born at about 1740 in Maryland (some
sources report Pennsylvania). His father was possibly Rueben
Paddock, son of Judah and Alice (Alden) Paddock. But their son
Reuben has not been documented to have lived past childhood.
There was a Reuben Paddock, who married a Rebecca Hand. But,
again, it is not certain that the two “Reuben Paddock” names are
the same person. In addition, it has not been proven that Ora’s
ancestor Ebenezer Paddock was the son of this particular Reuben
Paddock and Rebecca Hand. Because of the uncertainty of the lineage, the General Society of Mayflower
Descendants no longer accepts our branch of the Paddock family for membership through Ebenezer to the
Alden or Mullins families of Mayflower immigrants.
In addition to being rejected for the Mayflower Society, Ebenezer’s service in the Revolutionary War is now
also rejected by the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). Technically, Ebenezer served before the
Revolutionary War in “King Dunmore’s War”, a 1774 territorial conflict between western Colonial Virginia
and Shawnee and Mingo American Indian tribes. For his documented 142 days of service at Fort Pitt (now
Pittsburg PA) under Captain David Rogers, in 1775 Ebenezer was paid 10 British pounds, 14 shillings, and 6
pence. That does not necessarily mean Ebenezer did NOT serve in the Revolutionary War. But his
Revolutionary War service, if any, has not been satisfactorily proven to DAR.
An honorary “Revolutionary War” veteran’s stone is mounted on
cement in a row with tombstones of other Paddock names.
According to the stone, Ebenezer Paddock was born 1740 and
died in 1830. The stone is in very good shape, making it
unlikely that it was placed in 1830. However Ebenezer’s
original tombstone, if he ever had one, is not now at New
Harmony Cemetery. If Ebenezer Paddock died in 1830, it was
after the August 6, 1830 “as of” date for the 1830 census (when
he was recorded as one of the “Free White Males” in Vigo
County IN). In the 1830 census he was “80-90” years old.