About 1/4
mile S.S.E. & across a small creek from the Center Presbyterian
Church.
N.E. of
the center of the S.E.1/4 Sec.9, T.27N., R.1W., 21 Ind. P.M., in
N-Central
JEFFERSON Township, CASS County, INDIANA.
This
burial place is no longer separately fenced or identifiable. Cemetery
is located
on a road that winds its way N & W through Section 9. The
burial place is in
the S.W. corner of the Burton FULTZ farm & today is a small
fenced plot of
ground used as a GARDEN located west of the west side-yard of the farm
home
which sits on the north side of the road at the point where said road
elbows to
a right turn south. Better known as [by locals] as the Old Allen Price
Farm,
though the Old-Timers of the locality still refer to it as the Jake
Thompson
farm.”
George W.
Calloway [born May 25, 1859] and his wife, both natives of this
vicinity &
the present residents of a farm just 1/2 mile S.W. of the spot in
question
informed the copyist that “no survey of the Early cemeteries
of this locality
should omit mention of this burial- place. The Calloway’s
remember well,
“Interments made here in about 1870, 1871 & 1872 of
no less than 3
children surnamed TRESH, the children of a lady who was a daughter of
JACOB
THOMPSON by his first wife.” The Calloway’s say it
is possible that other
children & adults of other surnames, particularly-THOMPSON are
still buried
here.
In order
to verify this insistent testimony of Mr. & Mrs. Calloway,
R.B.W., Jr.
gathered some misc. data. from deed records & other tangible
sources which
is included in this report as plainly revealed to him.
Jacob Thompson’s had a wife in 1873 called Jane
J. Thompson. Jacob
Thompson died 1873
or 1874. He did
own a great deal of the land in this vicinity but also operated a The
“City
Hotel” at 6th & High Streets
in
Mr. Calloway says “ Jacob Thompson had two
children, “Dewitt &
Jennie by his second wife. He also says that “Jacob owned or
ran
The 1874
Logansport City-Directory: Jacob Thompson as “Proprietor of
City Hotel.,[At
N.W. cor. 6th & High Sts.] & as
having a clerk named Dewitt
H. Thompson, and among other “Boarders,” one Thomas
Thompson.”
The 1876
Logansport City-Directory: “A.S. Williams as Proprietor of
City Hotel, but
lists a Miss Annie Thompson as one of his Hotel-employees; And a Miss
Amy, Mrs.
Harriett, Mollie & Nettie Thompson residing at that hotel as
well as Adkins
& Marcellus H & others surname
“Nash.”
R.B.W.,
Jr. found no one connected with the Hotel or marrying anyone named
Thompson by
the name of TRESH. He did find Cass Co., persons named Thompson have
married
persons surnamed TWELL’S, TEKFER, WELSH/WELCH &
GARISH [names which might
be confused with the name Tresh. But Mr. Calloway insists that
Thompson’s
daughter married a man named a “Mr. Tresh who’s
name often misspelled Trish
& that three of their children and very likely others by this
name lie
buried in this cemetery & though the graves lie unmarked, they
have never
been removed though the fence gradually fell to pieces.”
R.B.W.,
Jr. found no real-estate records in the name of Tresh in Jefferson Twp.
Though
the name of Tresh, is
undeniably
well known across the
Somewhere
in R.B.W., Jr’s: Somewhere in his present research, he
found an indication that Jacob Thompson had been a native of [or at
least came
to Cass Co. from] Wabash Co., IN and anyone interested in these
vanished
Thompson’s & Tresh’s would perhaps be well
to search Wabash County’s
records for the Civil War & Pre-Civil War periods.
Report
by
R.B.Whitsett
Jr.
December
26, 1941
L’ANGUILLE
VALLEY MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION
This report was input by Pat Fiscel February 2007 for the Cass County INGenWeb Project.