WILLIAMS CEMETERY

MIAMI TOWNSHIP , CASS COUNTY , INDIANA

N.W. Corner of Northwest 1/4 of Sec.29 T27N, R3E

(Of the Second Indiana Principal Meridian ).

North Northwest of the Hamlet of Lewisburg [formerly an  important shipping—point on the Wabash & Erie Canal, and which [hamlet] there today is a concrete bridge crossing the Wabash river].

Cemetery is in EASTERN CASS COUNTY and one and a half miles West of NEW WAVERLY; and is SOUTH of the WABASH RAILROAD [track] and NORTH of U.S. HWY.24., both of which run from LOGANSPORT (7 miles W.) to PERU (7 miles E.).

  Cemetery is 3 miles west of the CASS-MIAMI County-line, and is one mile North of WABASH RIVER & 2 1/4 miles South of EEL RIVER.

This ground was set aside for Burial Purposes as early as 1831 or 1832, and  hence is one of Earliest  American Cemeteries in Cass County .

This report was submitted to the

INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY

By the

L’ANGUILLE VALLEY MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION

Logansport , Indiana

Oct. 6, 1940 

Charles W. Scott, R.R.4, Peru, IN [on request of the Hon. Chester Henson, Township Trustee, Miami Twp.,  R.R.4, Logansport] who did the fieldwork  about the 1-Jun-1940.

Report compiled by, Mr. J. Slaton Kline, High Street Rd. , R.R.4, Logansport,

Editing, verifications & remarks added by secretary of the L.V.M.A., [R.B.W.Jr.]

 J.Z. Powell (local historian), about 1907, visited this large cemetery and copied a few of the very oldest inscriptions, some of which are longer found on stones or were found to be undecipherable in our 1940 canvass of this cemetery.   This report includes those notes which he made nearly a third of a century ago.

This report contained several inconsistencies between the notes that J.Z. Powell made and what is recorded in the 1940 report. I have attempted to make notes or add to data by verification of said data by the means of other reports including. The (N.P.S.),  National Parks Service Civil War database; The (C.C.D.I.), Cass County death index; The  (I.G.I.), International Genealogical Index, and the (S.S.D.I.), Social Security death index.

  Abbreviations used are w/o, s/o, d/o, h/o =wife of, son of, daughter of, husband of

(L.M.S.), (L’Anguille Valley Memorial Association;

(J.Z.P.), J.Z.Powell; (R.B.W.Jr.), Robert B. Whitsett Jr.

Film numbers in the veteran’s database are those provided by the N.P.S.

Pat Fiscel -volunteer transcriber for the Cass Co. INGenWeb Project

Photos and web preparation by Debby Beheler.  On Tuesday, 23 May 2000, I went exploring Williams Cemetery with my daughter April and friends Becky and Andy Miller.  Debby

This file uploaded 16 Jan 2007