CRAIN PRIVATE CEMETERY,
In N.W. PART WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, IN S.W. CASS COUNTY,
The late Joseph E. Crain, widely known Logansport architect, Masonic lodge historian, and president-emeritus of the Cass County (Indiana) Historical Society, was authority for the statement that somewhere on the "James H. Crain Farm" in [W. 1/2 of] S.E. 1/4, Section 14, T.26 N., R. 1 E., about 1/2 a mile east of the old Michigan Road [now known at this point as U.S. Highway 35], and immediately north of the Carroll County line was, in pre Civil War days, a small private cemetery that long was well-fenced, and lovingly cared for; and that contained, and no doubt
still contains, the remains of -
| NAME | BIRTHDATE | DEATHDATE | REMARKS |
|
CRAIN, Horace Benj. |
3/3/1848*
* Source - T.B. Helm |
9/14/1851 |
s/o Jas. H. Crain, and "said by his bro. Joe to have been aged nearly 3 years," but present writer thinks "over 3 1/2 years." [great-grandson of a New Jersey Rev. War Soldier: E Crain, Sr..] |
|
HARRIS, Child |
late 1851 | ||
|
HARRIS, Child |
late 1851 |
"And possibly a few other" persons who had lived in this immediate vicinity. But, said Mr. J.E. Crain, a forest-fire roared through this woods, and completely destroyed the board-fence; the land eventually was cleared (and stump-grubbed) and opened to cultivation; and neither he nor any other venerable person familiar with the neighborhood, was able to say exactly where this little cemetery had been situated. [Erosion or plow-shores may someday uncover the bones.]
The L'Anguille Valley Memorial Association Cemetery-Research Committee is indebted to the late Dr. J. Z. Powell for the foregoing information, which had been obtained from Mr. J. E. Crain on July 1, 1910, more than three decades prior to the date of this present report, October 16, 1940.
END OF REPORT
Report was transcribed by Debby Beheler on January 24, 2007 for the Cass County INGenWeb Project.
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Cemeteries of Cass County Indiana