Throwback Thursday: New Albany's pioneers

Our Franklin County Historical Marker Tour brings us to another pioneer cemetery, this one located in the outskirts of New Albany.

The marker: Smith's Burying Ground/Burnside Cemetery at 10881 Johnstown Road (Route 62).

Flashback: The cemetery was established when its namesake, Revolutionary War veteran John Smith, died in 1814.

• His extended family had traveled here by ox wagon the year before in a six-week, 600-mile journey from New Jersey.

The intrigue: The marker highlights two other notable burials, including Julia Landon, sister-in-law of New Albany co-founder Noble Landon.

• The other is John Clouse, born in the Netherlands in 1758.
• "When a boy he ran away from home and stole passage on a ship to America where he was sold for his passage. When the Revolution broke out, he was offered his freedom if he would serve in the army," the marker reads.

4️⃣7️⃣ down, 81 to go.