Seeking information on both individuals, listed on Find a Grave a being buried in Greenlawn Cemetery in Brownsburg, IN. Alexander's headstone has 53 Indian Infantry, Company H. According to quick check, he is a veteran of the Civil War. There are no dates on the marker though. Sabert S. Offutt's headstone has the dates 1858 - 1945. I would like to try and determine where in the Offutt Family Tree these individuals fit.

Any help appreciated.

According to "Hendricks County, Indiana Deaths with Burials in County, 1882-1990" (which contains information from the death records at the Hendricks County Health Department), Sabert S. Offutt was born June 8, 1869 in Indiana and died July 5, 1945. He was the son of Thomas Offutt and Elizabeth McKabe. An index of Greenlawn Cemetery done by County Seat Genealogical Society shows his full name as being Reverend Sabert S. Offutt.

Thanks for the quick response with this additional information. I wish that I could say mystery solved, but instead I have no Thomas Offutt that married an Elizabeth McKabe in my database. Guess that the search for answers will just have to roll along. In addition, I haven't as yet found Sabert S. Offutt in any IN Census, so have been unable to tie him to any family. Based on both Sabert and Alexander having markers in the same cemetery I am making an assumption that they are in some way related.

Dave O.

I just did a quick search for Sabert S. Offutt and found one in Rush County, Indiana. I have no link to this family genealogy, but like challenges!

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This gets stranger and stranger. I have a Sabert Offutt, born to a George W. and Josephine (Beckner) Offutt in 1869 in Rush County, IN; listed in the househodl of those two individuals in the 1870 and 1880 Census and who is supposed to have died July 22, 1942?????

Are you referrring to the 1910 Census hit? I just found that one myself. Lists a Sabert S. Offutt and his wife Maggie. This is a Sabert that I already have, unless this Sabert and the other one are one in the same. Only other time that I have found Sabert S. in the Fed Census so far is 1880 in Indiana. This family is always full of challenges. For every mystery that I solve I seem to get two more new ones

A quick search reveals a number of persons with the name of Sabert Offutt. I think you can find the one you are looking for and his brother Alexander in the 1860 census for Indiana, Shelby county, Hanover township, page 137 or on Ancestry.com image 30 of 34, the last name is mispelled Offitt. Also his birth should have been 1858, not 1869. Also found a death record for Alexander in Marion county which gives his birth as about 1846 and death as 15 Mar 1901. Good luck. Don

It is possible that whoever the informant was for Sabert S. Offutt's death certificate had incorrect information about who his parents were. It is also possible that the information on his death certificate was written down wrong for the Deaths with Burials book--that's why you may want to double-check by getting a copy of the death record and seeing for yourself what it says.

You may also want to get a copy of his obituary to see what it said--it apparently was in the July 12, 1945 issue of The Republican (a Danville newspaper). The Danville and Plainfield libraries both have the Republican on microfilm and could get you a copy of his obituary.

One other thing--for what it's worth, the index of Greenlawn Cemetery only had one other Offutt listing, but the first name was not Alexander, but Lorenzo (no dates). Perhaps it was a footstone or something, where it was hard to tell which family group it belonged to?

I think the family of your Alexander and Sabert S. Offutt is the following family found in the 1860 Shelby County, Hanover census.

Thomas Offitt Hanover, Shelby, IN 55 abt 1805 Maryland Male
Elizabeth Offitt Hanover, Shelby, IN 47 abt 1813 Kentucky Female
James Offitt Hanover, Shelby, IN 22 abt 1838 Kentucky Male
Mary Offitt Hanover, Shelby, IN 20 abt 1840 Kentucky Female
Joseph Offitt Hanover, Shelby, IN 18 abt 1842 Kentucky Male
John Offitt Hanover, Shelby, IN 16 abt 1844 Kentucky Male
Alexander Offitt Hanover, Shelby, IN 15 abt 1845 Kentucky Male
Elizabeth Offitt Hanover, Shelby, IN 13 abt 1847 Kentucky Female
Louisa Offitt Hanover, Shelby, IN 12 abt 1848 Kentucky Female
William Offitt Hanover, Shelby, IN 8 abt 1852 Kentucky Male
Thomas Offitt Hanover, Shelby, IN 7 abt 1853 Kentucky Male
Sabert Offitt Hanover, Shelby, IN 2 abt 1858 Indiana Male

I am pretty sure this is correct for the following reasons. Thomas and Elizabeth match the death information provided by hendcogen97. James, age 22, married my widowed great-great-grandmother Sarah (Douglass) Sullings in Hendricks County on 17 Oct 1866. Sarah's widowed mother, Margaret (Reed) Douglass, had a farm just east of Brownsburg which gives him a Hendricks County connection. Alexander, age 15, would be the civil war veteran buried in Greenlawn. In the Indianapolis 1870 census in the household of James and Sarah (Douglass) Sullingts/Offutt the following additional Offutts are listed Thomas age 63, Joseph 28 and Alexander age 24.

Hope this helps.

Mike Brickner
Clarksville, TN

All good adsvice, I will have to see about ordering the obituary. I'm not sure abuobt the rules for death certificates in IN. Some states won't let you get one unless you are somehow related to the deceased.

Thanks.