Is this deed recorded?
From: Sharon Howell <sshowell(a)indy.net>
Reply-To: INPCRP-L(a)rootsweb.com
To: INPCRP-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [INPCRP] Original Cemetery Deed
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 11:52:02 -0500
I was at the state library yesterday looking for information on Martin
County cemeteries. I have a list of names of cemeteries, and I have
locations of some cemeteries from maps, but I don't know what names go with
which locations. So I decided to check the file cabinets at the state
library to see if they had any information to help me.
One of the folders was on the Jones Cemetery in Lost River Township. In a
nice folder, each page of the transcription was in a plastic page
protector. The first page gave the legal description of the property and
which the landowner had deeded it to the public as a cemetery. The last
page in this folder contained the original deed! I couldn't believe what I
was seeing. It was a printed deed form, with all the information typed in,
and original signatures. It was done in Oct. 1911. The typewriter ribbon
had turned a nice purple shade, the irregular letters were obviously made
with a manual typewriter. Without taking the form out of its folder to
feel for indentations, the signatures seems to be the original.
Now we have another place to look for a deed for a cemetery. It could have
been included with a transcription of the cemetery. The owner of that one
transcription could have donated it to any library, or historical society,
or kept it in a box in the attic.
Sharon Howell
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are reunited - memories are made tangible - and love is
undisguised. This is a cemetery.
"Communities accord respect, families bestow reverence,
historians seek information and our heritage is thereby enriched.
"Testimonies of devotion, pride and remembrance are carved
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not the death - of a loved one. The cemetery is homeland for family
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"A cemetery is a history of people - a perpetual record of
yesterday and sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery
exists because every life is worth loving and remembering - always."
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