WALTERS GRAVE-MARKER
Mr. Harry N. West, a letter-carrier has reported to the L’Anguille Valley Historical Association of Logansport, that in the remodeling of his present place of residence at 1416 East Broadway, in the city’s [now heavily populated East End] he astonishingly discovered an old stone slab which obviously has served or at least was intended to serve as a grave-marker & which arouses speculation as to whether there may once have been a burial-ground or individual burial in that residential area. It seems more probable that the stone was brought to that address to serve as a door step from either some cemetery or some monument dealers shop & following the replacement of it with a more modern monument or some other such reason. The slab gives this information undecipherable on the report]
[NOTE: a large piece of tape blackens & makes the first part of the inscription Undecipherable on the report]
MARTIN:
CONSORT OF SUSANNAH WALTERS
[Died
1863; Aged 54 yrs. 5 mos., 18 das.]
The stone contained line of Rhyme which we didn’t include as it contained no genealogical value.
This report was prepared after a visit to
the WEST home & inspection of the old slab for the Genealogy Division of
Indiana Society; and Genealogical Division of the Indiana State Library by
October 5, 1952 by Robert B. Whitsett of
L’ANGUILLE VALLEY MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION
[We
say LONG-EELY]
This report was input by Pat Fiscel February 2007 for the Cass County INGenWeb Project.