I found the following archived news stories on the Kendallville News-Sun and
The Evening Star website by doing a search for the word "Tamarack" at
http://kpcnews.com/archives/. I've listed them below in chronological order
(oldest to most recent).
12/01/1999
"Discovered bones may be from lost cemetery"
http://kpcnews.com/archives/index.inn?loc=detail&doc=/1999/December/0...
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By BOB GAGEN
KENDALLVILLE - It is most likely that the skeletal remains of two women and
some
infants unearthed Wednesday near Tamarack Lake in Wayne Township were from a
family or neighborhood cemetery.
12/01/1999
"Bones are likely from 19th century family cemetery"
http://kpcnews.com/archives/index.inn?loc=detail&doc=/1999/December/0...
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By BOB GAGEN
KENDALLVILLE - It is most likely that the skeletal remains of two women and
some
infants unearthed Wednesday near Tamarack Lake in Wayne Township were from a
family or neighborhood cemetery.
12/30/1999
"Old human bones unearthed -- Skeletal remains are of 2 females, infants from
150 years ago"
http://kpcnews.com/archives/index.inn?loc=detail&doc=/1999/December/3...
le1.txt
By JOE POTTER
12/30/1999
"SILENT SENTINEL"
http://kpcnews.com/archives/index.inn?loc=detail&doc=/1999/December/3...
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The backhoe shown here appears to be standing guard over a
site near Tamarack Lake where human skeletal remains were found Wednesday
morning by construction workers who were digging a basement for a new home.
The
machinery has since been removed and police officers are now guarding the
site.
Two skulls and some other bones were taken to Fort Wayne Wednesday for
testing.
(News-Sun photo by Chad Kline)
01/05/2000
"Remains may be reburied at Tamarack"
http://kpcnews.com/archives/index.inn?loc=detail&doc=/2000/January/5-...
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By The Associated Press with staff reports
KENDALLVILLE - One of the owners of the property where human skeletal remains
were recently found said today they will allow the remains to be re-interred
on
another part of their rural Kendallville property if possible.
01/6/2000
"Bones now thought to be teens from 19th century"
http://kpcnews.com/archives/index.inn?loc=detail&doc=/2000/January/6-...
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By JOE POTTER
INDIANAPOLIS - The human skeletal remains that were accidentally unearthed in
northeastern Noble County on Dec. 29 appear to be historic - from the 19th
century -
a state official said Wednesday.
01/13/2000
"More Tamarack bones found"
http://kpcnews.com/archives/index.inn?loc=detail&doc=/2000/January/13...
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By JOE POTTER
KENDALLVILLE - Two additional partial sets of human skeletal remains were
uncovered by archeologists Wednesday on a hillside above Tamarack Lake where
other remains were found late last month.
01/13/2000
"TEDIOUS WORK"
http://kpcnews.com/archives/index.inn?loc=detail&doc=/2000/January/13...
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Sam Mahow, left, and Rick Jones, center, archeologists with the
Indiana Department of Natural Resources' Historic Preservation and Archeology
Division, are assisted by Larry Donat of Eshelman Construction, right,
Wednesday
as the fragile skeletal remains of a young child are excavated from a hilltop
construction site on the south shore of Tamarack Lake in rural Kendallville.
Another
set of remains - those of an infant - were also discovered there Wednesday.
Four
sets of skeletal human remains have been found at the site since Dec. 29,
1999.
(News-Sun photo by Joe Potter)
01/20/2000
"Remains of child, teen latest finds"
http://kpcnews.com/archives/index.inn?loc=detail&doc=/2000/January/20...
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By JOE POTTER
KENDALLVILLE - An unusual discovery was made Wednesday during archeological
excavations of skeletal remains at a building site on the south shore of
Tamarack
Lake that has given archeologists a whole new set of questions to answer,
according
to Sam Mahow, an archeologist with the Indiana Department of natural
Resources'
Historic Preservation and Archeology division.
01/20/2000
"More bones found at Tamarack"
http://kpcnews.com/archives/index.inn?loc=detail&doc=/2000/January/20...
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By JOE POTTER
KENDALLVILLE - The discovery of two more sets of human skeletal remains
Wednesday at a building site on the south shore of Tamarack Lake has
reinforced
the opinion of some state officials that an unrecorded late-18th century or
early-19th
century pioneer cemetery was accidentally unearthed Dec. 29, 1999, by a work
crew
digging a basement for a house.
----- Original Message -----
From: Sam Cline <scline(a)hoosierweb.org>
To: <INPCRP-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 2:17 PM
Subject: [INPCRP-L] Noble County, Indiana, Cemetery at Tamarack Lake
[Friday, January 21, 2000, The Herald-Times, Bloomington, Indiana.]
[Not available on-line.]
State officials have uncovered the remains of two more people
at a home construction site in Noble County [Tamarack Lake].
The discovery brings the number of remains found at the site
to about nine since the first two skulls were discovered south of
Tamarack Lake in December.
The area where the bones were found is thought to be an
unmarked, historic cemetery from the late 18th or early 19th century.
Definitive cemetery records for this site have not been found.
Nails believed to be from a coffin and metal buttons were also
discovered Wednesday by a team of archaeologists from the Indiana
Department of Natural Resources and University of Indianapolis human
biology graduate students.
Researchers found bones from different parts of the body for
one skeleton, while the other had only cranial bones. It is believed
that the grave sites could have been disturbed years ago, which would
explain why complete skeletons are not being recovered, researchers
said.
[1876 map indicates Tamarack Lake was located in Sections 5,
6, & 7, Township 35 North, Range 11 East, Wayne Township, and Section
1, Township 35 North, Range 10 East, Orange Township. A small portion
of the lake is indicated as being located in La Grange County.]
[Current atlas/map (date of publication not shown) indicates
that present day Tamarack Lake is located in Section 6, Township 35
North, Range 11 East, Wayne Township.]
If anyone should have any information concerning this cemetery, the
following individual and/or organizations should be notified.
ROBERT C GAGEN JR
NOBLE COUNTY HISTORIAN
PO BOX 11
ALBION, IN 46701
Home Phone: 219/636-7871
NOBLE COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
c/o NOBLE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
813 E. MAIN ST.
ALBION , IN 46701
CONTACT:
PRESIDENT:
NOBLE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
PO BOX 152
ALBION , IN 46701
PRESIDENT: Deb Sieber
Sam Cline
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