Old Mort / Miami County Poor Farm Cemetery

Modern Centataph erected in memory of those buried at the County Poor Farm

Photo by Jennifer Sparks

is located in Washington Township, Miami Co., IN in the northwest corner of section 3.

Of over 100 hundred graves only the following were marked at an unknown date:

NAME DATE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH COMMENTS

Brunner, Nettie

French, James

Holbrook, David S. 	----------	8 Aug 1884	53y 1m 23d; blind 27y 7m 8d

McCormick, James 	----------	2 Feb 193(8)	70y

(P)ressel, Orville H.	----------	Jan 5 1939	53y 10m 24d

Stewart, Wm.		1879		1934

Whitney, Sam		----------	-----------

The Peru Journal 13 Dec 1919, Peru, IN
courtesy of Regine Brindle


Through obituaries and death certificates, I have found nearly 70 names of people documented to have been buried at the Miami County Poor Farm.

BURIALS

Old Mort Cemetery Index
As researched by Debby Beheler, August 1998 to present
Links to: Miami Co. INGenWeb;
Miami Co. Cemetery List

Last updated 24 December 2019