LEFFEL PRIVATE BURIAL

The Leffel Private Burial Ground is in N.W-Central TIPTON Township , in S.E. CASS County , INDIANA . It is about 9 miles E.S.E. of the Logansport Courthouse. It’s about 3 miles S. of the Wabash River & 3 1/2 miles S.S.E. of the Cass Station concrete bridge over the Wabash River. Cemetery is about 2 miles S.E. [as the crow flies] near Lewisburg, IN at the confluence of [Big] Pipe Creek & the Wabash River, about 2 miles E.S.E. of the Anoka Methodist Church & more than 1/4 mile N. of the double [Logansport –to-Columbus] OH, Pennsylvania railroad tracks. Cemetery is almost on the exactly on the boundary line of the N.E. 1/4 & N.W. 1/4 Section 12; T. 26 N., R. 2E. of the 2^nd IN. P.M. Cemetery is about 50 ft. west of a road that leads S.S.W. thru the N.E. 1/4 Sec.12 & is immediately S.W. of the point on that road where it T’s with the E. road. Cemetery is about 100 ft. N. of a small, nameless creek which winds its way N. thru the N-Central part of Sec.12 & the cemetery is about 150 ft. E. of that same creek which detours the cemetery by circling west before resuming its N. course.

Cemetery is about 1/4 mile S.of the farm-house of Miss Rettie Thomas who’s house lies about 2 miles E. of Anoka’s Crossroads at the point where the road elbows [right-angle] turn.

This cemetery was in use at least during the Mexican War Period & is believed today to contain a number of unmarked graves of families such as the ULERY’S & others who owned farms just a 1/4 mile south [in the vicinity of the R.R.track].

The surrounding farm has been owned by various persons including John C. Leffel, Geo. W. Grimes, John Cotterman, Wm. M. Helvie but the cemetery has been excepted by deeds of conveyance since 1857 so that the present ownership of the property is in doubt, says Dr. Jehu Z. Powell, late local historian of Cass Co., IN.

Among the fallen & broken slabs are tangled saplings & years of fallen & rotting leaves. One beech tree [65-75 Ft.] high towers over the cemetery. The carefully wired, fenced portion of the cemetery measures about 32 ft. from E-to-W & 21 ft. N-to-S.

LAST	FIRST	DIED	AE.	COMMENTS
McGrew	David P.	11/25/1850	13-10-21	s/o Samuel T. & Mary
McGrew	William N.	12/15/1848	17-10-13	s/o Samuel T. & Mary
McGrew	Samuel T.	07/24/1853	63-2-4	b. at or near Dayton , OH & displaced footstone Mc., S.T. [no dates]
Louthain	Frances [Mrs.]	04/28/1853	41-9-9	w/o J.S.
Anderson	Mary E.	08/29/1853	6m-6d.	d/o T.L. & C. [or G.? by R.B.W.J.]
Book	Mary [Mrs.]	09/09/1848	81-8-29	w/o Henry & displace footstone “B.M.”

Helm’s “History of Cass Co., IN pg 938.” Mary’s maiden name was Stibbins & she was from Montgomery Co., OH.

Louthain: A Benj. F. Louthain from this vicinity became a postmaster, school board member, prominent newspaper man, etc., at the nearby at the nearby city of Logansport. I think this is a Wythe Co., VA & Miami Co., Ohio family.

Mrs [Henry] Mary Book: stone pieced for reading as was broken in half with a jagged crack across the dates.

In selling his farm on 9/19/1857, J. C. Leffel reverently refrained from transferring title to this cemetery. If anyone named Leffel was buried here than the graves are now unmarked. It’s likely that no burials have been made here for a century or longer.

This report was input by Pat Fiscel March 10, 2007 for the Cass County INGenWeb Project.