LEFFEL  PRIVATE  BURIAL-GROUND

 

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 2nd 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.”

 

 Fieldwork by Theodore Brandt

&

R.B.Whitsett, Jr. – Cemetery Research Committee Chairman

L’ANGUILLE VALLEY MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION

500 FRONT STREET ,

  LOGANSPORT , INDIANA .

3-22-1941

 

 

COMMENTS:

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.

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