Debby
If I lived there I would help you.
I heard 'something' about the Beth. Presbyterian Cemetery at some time but
can't think what I heard.
Thanks are NOT enough but THANKS for doing this. I would like to see the
pics of the cemeteries. Deacon Grange use to take care of the one on highway
east of Young America. Darn can't think of highway or the name of Cem. We
spent many evenings there with our kiddies playing on blankets mowing and
weeding. There is a huge empty section-we were told Indians were buries
there but don't know.
Also 1 mile north of Blue Ball Church in Deer Creek Twp-there is an old one.
Don's old great aunt is buries there and a few other of his mother's family.
Their name was Diver. Annie and her brother, Levi, who I think was killed in
the Great War. They were Devon/Diver. Not sure the first name is spelled
right.
I sent my notebooks of records for the Nelson and the Richason Families to
my sister-in-law so can't give you any exact names.
We, Don, Tonie, and I loved Cemeteries and have been in many of them in the
area of YA, etc. I am cataloguing 2003 obits of Harlingen Morning Star and
2006 of both the Star and San Benito News. I really enjoy doing it.
Another thing, Dean Arlington, who married our good friend, Jeannie Baker,
in the 80's had a vast collection of obits. I always wondered what happened
to them when he died. I know he did the Pharos Tribune but don't know if he
did any others. Hope they were given to the Library of Cass County Gen
Society. Sallie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Debby Beheler" <debralee(a)insightbb.com>
To: <INCASS-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 12:20 PM
Subject: [INCASS] Cemeteries
I have been busy updating all the cemetery pages and adding
obituaries. It
takes hours to collect and prepare the obits for the webpages. I am not
complaining, but want you to know that it is a slow process, but I am
working on it constantly.
Tuesday, Ed and I spent 4 hours looking for cemeteries in Cass County, IN.
I volunteered to help the Indiana Genealogical Society in describing
locations and directions to Cass County Cemeteries. In four hours, we only
covered 2 townships, but we did make some discoveries. Adams and Bethlehem
townships are mostly country with a few tiny towns. We followed directions
to many cemeteries and ended up knocking on doors to talk to long-time
residents about the locations of some very old pioneer cemeteries. How
disappointing that several on the list are no longer visible as
cemeteries. Bethlehem Presbyterian is one. We spoke with an 87-year old
gentleman who had attended the church all his life and lived in the area.
He remembers as a small boy, there were stones in the churchyard where the
church still currently stands, but knows nothing of the locations
indicated on the IGS papers. Others appear to be "lost" also.
A 80-year young gentleman helped us with locating Grabic/Grable. It is in
a small woods in Adams Twp. We did not go back there as we would have had
to walk through the crops to get there, but hope to go back later in the
year when the crops are in. Mr. M. said in the 50+ years he has been there
he was only aware of about a dozen people going back to that cemetery. He
has a great view from his home of the fields and that little woods.
Let me know if you would like to photograph cemeteries in Miami, Cass or
Howard Counties, to be added to the webpages. I prefer green backgrounds
as opposed to brown or snowy white. This is one way we can at least
preserve the images and information for the future. Help is needed to make
this possible.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~incass/cemlist.html
http://www.rootsweb.com/~inmiami/cemlist.html
http://www.rootsweb.com/~inhowar2/
Debby
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Debby Beheler, debralee(a)insightbb.com
State Coordinator for INGenWeb -
http://www.ingenweb.org
a part of the USGenWeb Project -
http://www.rootsweb.com/~incass/county.html - Cass Co INGenWeb
http://www.rootsweb.com/~inmiami/index.html - Miami Co INGenWeb
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