(Formerly
known as “FOUTS Grave-yard”)
is on the south (or southwesterly)
bank of westwardly flowing DEER CREEK, and in both the N.W. and N.E. quarters of
SECTION 19 of Congressional Township 25 N of Range 2E of 2nd Ind.
P.M., and is 2 ¾ miles north of the Howard-Cass county-line and 1 ½ mile east
of the Carroll-Cass county-line, and is in Western DEER CREEK TOWNSHIP of
southern CASS COUNTY in northcentral Indiana. Cemetery is about nine miles due
south of the county-seat city of
Logansport
, and 2 ¼ miles east and ¾ of a mile south of the
Carroll
County
town of Deer Creek. Which
last-mentioned town is on the historic old “
MICHIGAN ROAD
” (now known here as State Road 29). The
cemetery is seven miles west, and one mile south of the town of
Lincoln
, Indiana.
A burial-place was originally established here in about 1840 by the late
NOAH FOUTS, an acre of land later being conveyed by formal deed sixteen years
later by Solomon Fouts. In 1886,
however, the Deer Creek township government turned the steadily growing cemetery
over to trustees of the then newly organized
CENTER
U.B.
CHURCH
, which erected its first (a frame) structure nearby.
Gradually, the name “Fouts Grave-yard” has passed from use, though
the Fouts family has been active in even relatively recent additions, etc., to
this now large and well-cared-for cemetery.
Though not in (nor even very near) any city nor even town or village, the
present church is of brick and of modern design, and equipped with electric
lights and other quasi-urban conveniences.
Fieldwork was completed on OCT
14, 1943, by Robert B. Whitsett, Jr., of the L’Anguille Valley Memorial
Association,
500 Front Street
,
Logansport
,
Indiana
. Owing to lack of local
co-operation, and to war-time difficulties of transportation so great a distance
from
Logansport
, it has not been found practicable to check the fieldwork, though every
reasonable effort was made to make this record both accurate and complete.
The ensuing record was
prepared for the INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY and INDIANA STATE LIBRARY through
the courtesy of the
INDIANA
BUSINESS
COLLEGE
, of
Logansport
,
Indiana
,
Of
which institution, which occupies the fifth floor of the Barnes Office
Bldg.
at Third and Broadway, MRS. SADIE K. CREERY is the
Principal.
Typing of the following sheets was by Miss Miriam K. Martin, a
Student
chosen because of knowledge of this cemetery and many of the persons buried
there. Checking of the record back
to the fieldnotes was by Mrs. Anna Mary Whitsett, assisted by the original
fieldworker.
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Reading
by Debbi Copeland, 2000. Additions
by Debby Beheler.
First
revision uploaded 9 March 2007.
Links
to:
Cass
Co.
INGenWeb
Cass
Co.
Cemetery List
Cass
Co., Deer Creek Twp. Cemetery Locator Map