Clinton Township, Cass County, IN
on the north side county road 400 S at about 460 W
about one quarter mile west off of of IN25
Photographs included in this website were taken on November 9, 2006 by Debby Beheler. Following is the L'Anguille Valley Memorial Association report as transcribed by Pat Fiscel for the Cass County INGenWeb. Contributions, updates, obituaries and corrections are welcome. Email Debby. There are many notes below regarding conflicting opinions of transcriptions, problems deciphering transcriptions, etc.
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Formerly
known as EBENEZER OR (CLYMERS METHODIST (M.E.) OR CLYMERS-
S.E. corner of S.W. 1/4 of Sec.7 of
T-26N., R-1 E., 2nd IN p.m.in
Cemetery
is abt. 1/4 mile West, of that point
on paved State Highway 25 (which runs from Logansport S.W. to
The land for this cemetery was obtained in 1855 & 1905 from Joseph
Fitzer & his son, Hugh Fitzer, It
lies from a 1/4 to 1/2 mile W. of the Hamlet of Clymers & is on the North
side of of the (E. & W.) “
This
large & rather beautiful lawn-cemetery is bounded on the North, West &
East by forests and on the South by the
Fieldwork for this
cemetery was originally done on April 20, 1941-Sep.29,1941 by
Messrs., Frank Justice
of
&
Robert B. Whitsett Jr;
L’ANGUILLA
VALLEY MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION
Included
in this report will be material noted by our historian Dr. J.Z. Powell when he
canvassed this cemetery in 1913 recording the early graves of pioneers &
Soldiers interred here & whose inscriptions were nearly undecipherable a
third of century ago that may not have been included in the 1942 field-work.
Notes
Metal
Marker w/ undecipherable or missing cards for which funeral firm isn’t
known-17
Metal
Marker w/Royal Center, IN Undertaker ?
Metal
Marker w/year “1941” rest is undecipherable
Base
containing poetry but stone missing/no names or dates
2
very small stones & one seems to mark a G.A.R. Post 14 & flag holder
Old
broken monument w/o lettering
Small
monument with letters (N.S.) but S looks more like backwards Z.
5
discarded old stone slabs stacked against a fence w/o decipherable inscriptions.
Several
lots w/o head-stones or markers of any kind
Headstone
w/o any inscription between B.A. Murphy & J.J. Owens
A
beautiful little marker of white porcelain & glass containing a very neatly
printed [Grimm Funeral Home,
Easterday
Funeral Home of Logansport is successor to Peirce & Easterday.
Killian
& McKloskey Funeral Home of Logansport-undecipherable card in metal marker-2
Baines? Peirce & Easterday, Undertakers from Logansport, card mostly
undecipherable
Bennett, Jennie: This
grave has a light-weight-aluminum like metal of some size giving the impression
of a Rose with twigs & leaves & inscripted on top of the prominently
placed intials of “R.N.A.”
Br______, Ella Fern: An
unusual, aluminum-like marker shaped in the form of a tennis recket & with
black metal letters, some of which are now missing.
Dickerson, Sarah V.:
On earlier canvass, a card in metal marker which gave her middle name as Viola
& gave d.o.d. as March 14th. Now marker replaced by red granite
monument gives only yr of death & middle intial V.
Fitzer, (Joseph &
Sarah):
The monument
& graves it marks were moved here from the private Fitzer burial ground
situated abt. 1/2 m. W.N.W. of here. See it’s report.
Fossion, Mariah
spelling of birth place was as in orig. transcript “
Landrey, Hugh M. &
Elenor: The
method of carving upon this statutory-sized granite monument shows unusual
originality & the appearance is quite attractive.
8
PORTER,
Harry: Badly weathered little spire carved with a lamb &
inscription
Field
worker recorded 11-2[4?]-188[8?]-
10-10-188[3?].
Rea Family monument: an unusual altar-like containing graves of John R.,
Elizabeth (his wife) & 4 of their children. Buried next to them is Eva Rea
who could either be their dau. Listed with them in 1870 USC or another Eva Rea
aged 15 in the 1870 USC.
3
deeply buried cement stones not dug out for exam as previously dug out markers
of the same type were completely devoid of any readable inscriptions.
Rice, Wm.H.:
Metal marker by Killian & McCloskey of
Runk: deeply
buried stone for perhaps this surname bet. J.W.Kendall & Adam Runk
Apparently Adam was m.2x, both wives being named Eliza. Adam’s data is
carved on the West face, E.J. on the North face & Eliza on the South face of
the monument. Date for E.J. reads Mar.
Soncarty, A.E.:Next to him- fallen metal marker
Epitaphs
Fitzer, Martha M.
“I want
to be an Angel, And With The Angels Stand, A
Crown upon my forehead, and a Harp within my Hand.”
Fitzer, Mary
“Tho
Thou Art Gone, and Thy Fair form lies mold’ring
in the dust, Still Mary: Fond Memory Clings to Thee.”
Gordon, Infant Daughter
“Sweet
Little Bud, For Earth too Fair, Has Gone To Heaven To Blossom There.”
Gugle, Earl
T.
“A
precious one from us has gone, a voice we loved is stilled. A place is vacant in
our home, which never can be filled.”
Kennedy, Mrs. Wm.,
(Emily)
“My
Dearest Friends that Dwelt Above I
Now have gone to see.
And
all my friends in Christ Below Will Soon Come After Me.”
Porter, Harry
“His
pains are o’er, His sorrow past, Life’s armor laid aside.
He reaps the great reward at last, In Heaven to abide.”
Owens, Mary A.
“Weep
Not, Dear Father and Mother, For Me, I am waiting in Glory for Thee.”
Soldiers
Buntain, John L… 1845-1938 Civil
War Vet…Co.B. 128th
Calvert, Chas…
-1865
Civil War Vet…Co.A. 86th
Cohen, Chas. G …
Civil War Vet…Co..F.116th Ind.Inf.
Choen (Cohen), Jasper
… Marble Govt.
marker, G.A.R. Post 14 Co.K. 9
Cohen,
Grual, Father:
G.A.R.
metal marker
Landrey, Hugh M…
1839-1928… G.A.R. metal-falg-holder
Lezenbe, Jesse…
d:5/21/1900 Aged 59
Co.H.
Parmeter, Joseph:
G.A.R.
metal marker
Parrish, Dr. Harrison
D… SGT.,
Porter, Bruce…d:
06/21/1904 aged 21y. Co.G.21st.
Quick, Riley…
Civil War Vet. Co.H.37
Rice, Solomon…
G.A.R. metal
marker
Stumbaugh, J.Kelly...Govt.
marble head-stone, G.A.R. flag-holder , Co.H., 128th Ind. Inf.
Stumbaugh, David…This
is an old but decipherable & attractive slab. It probably was moved to this
location from the Old Fitzer Private Burial ground (abt. 1/2 mile farther N.W.).
The late local historian, Powell, in his quest for graves of Soldiers
& Pioneers, (in abt. 1909), found a marked grave in the Fitzer cemetery for
a Mexican War Veteran by the name of David Stumbaugh, who Powell says, “died
in 1850”. Our 1942 canvass of Fitzer cemetery found no such monument but it is
recorded here.
Urich, Isaac…G.A.R.
metal flag-holder & Corp., Co.A.
93 Regt. PA Vol. Inf. (cross with 6 in it)
Wilkinson, Isaac…Civil
War Soldier, Co.A. 72nd Reg. Ind. Vol. died at
Who died His Country’s Rights to Save,
And
gained a Soldier’s Honored Grave.”
2 G.A.R
metal flag-bearer markers w/o any names or dates to identify them.
several
feet South of Hugh M. Landrey is a G.A.R. Post-14 Metal flag-holder
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