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.