MOUNT CALVARY CEMETERY

“The OLD DUNKARD CEMETERY ”

Located in MIAMI TOWNSHIP , EASTERN CASS COUNTY , INDIANA

[N.W. CORNER OF N.W. 1/4, SECTION 24; T.27N., R3E OF THE 2^ND Ind. P.M.]

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On the E. side of ADAMSBORO- CASS STATION ROAD & on the S. side of MILLER ROAD [which is virtually an eastward continuation] of the HIGH STREET ROAD .

This cemetery is perched high on a bluff of the East Terrace Rim of the Southward flowing & beautiful winding Eel River, which once served as a “SENTINEL BLUFF” for a very large [but now long vanished] Eel River Miami Indian Town. The view from this cemetery affords its visitors the most extraordinarily panoramic view of the Eel River Valley , [of anywhere in all] of Cass County , Indiana . As a rule, the taller chimneys of Logansport are plainly visible from even the North-South Road , which passes this cemetery.

FIELDWORKER NOTES

There are as many as 25 graves in this cemetery with no markers.

 This cemetery was established by the [long-since-disbanded] MT. Calvary Church of the Brethren [“Dunkard or German Baptist”] which was a sister church [organized about 1880] to a church [of that denomination] located at Mexico in Miami Co., IN [abt. 10 miles N.E. & across Eel River .] but in later years was assigned to the Logansport Church of the Brethren just 5 miles west.

  In 1882-1883 a frame church was erected just North of, but across Miller Road from this cemetery, which is no longer standing. Just north of its former site is a small brick structure serving as the Community Hall for the Hamlet of Adamsboro  which was built following the consolidation of all the townships schools at the town of New Waverly.  Adamsboro lies on both sides of the Eel River but less than 1/2 mile N. of the cemetery, owing to the fact that this cemetery is a little than 1/4 mile South of a suburb of the hamlet of Adamsboro, formerly known as  Hooverville. This cemetery is occasionally referred to as the “ Hooverville German Baptist Cemetery .”  It should not be confused with the cemetery 1/2 mile East & lying on the same side of Miller Road known as the “Adamsboro or Miami Baptist Cemetery.”

2 additional stones on the Keeport Lot that are totally undecipherable.

Submitted To

Indianapolis State Historical Society & Library

Indianapolis , IN

July 28, 1940

By the

L’ANGUILLE VALLEY MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION

500 FRONT STREET

LOGANSPORT , INDIANA

Fieldwork by Chas. W. Scott  June 1940 of Peru , IN who lived S. of New Waverly, Cass Co., IN.

Report made by R.B. Whitsett, Jr.-Chairman of L’A.V.M.A. cemetery Research Committee.

Mrs. Anna Cary Whitsett

Township Trustee-Chester Henson of Logansport .

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This data collected in 1940, was input by Pat Fiscel April 2007 for use on the Cass County INGenWeb Project Site.  Web preparation by Debby Beheler.  Contact Debby with additions or corrections.