Memorial for the mass burial of unclaimed reburials
Memorial for the mass burial of unclaimed reburials
For a larger image of the photos shown, click
on the photo.
Photos of a portion of the old City
Cemetery moved and now in Pine Lake Cemtery.
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Disclaimer:This cemetery listing was submitted to the LaPorte County US Gen Web mail system. I am posting it here for those that might have missed it or have not had the opportunity to view it. Although this is only a list of names with no dates, perhaps it will help someone find that their ancestors were indeed here in LaPorte County.
Old City Cemetery History - In the original grant for land upon which the city of LaPorte was built, a small piec of land consisting of about two and one-half acrews was donated as a grave yard. There was no fee and;or provisionss made for any separate ownership lots. Therefore, any unoccupied ground could be appropriated by any person and therefore interment together of deceased family members soon becamse impossible. It was also discovered that the amount of ground designated for this burial sepulture was entirely inadequte in comparison to the growing population. Although frequently discussed, until the summer of 1856 when steps were finally taken to create articles of association that were drawn up and a subscription of stock procured amounting to $2000.
The first meeting of the members of the association was held at the Court House, Aug 1, 1856. Ther first interment was in 1858. The number of trustees was fixed at seven: Amzi Clark, Geo. L. Andrew, Gilbert Hathaway, Abraham Teegarden, Ferdinand Roberts, Don J. Woodward and Lycurgus Sherman were elected the first board, and teh organization was compltered by the election of Gilbery Hathaway as president and Don J. Woodward as secretary and treasurer.
Immediately after its organization the trustees invited proposals from all owning real estate in the vicinity of the city for the sale of such lands as were suitable for a cemetery. Not only the tracts offered but all the lands within porper distance were visited and carefully considered, and the result was the selection of that portion of the county farm which lay south of its bi-secting highway and east of the Michigan City Plank road. The first purchase considered forty-four acres and several years afterwards that protion of the same tract lying between the Plank road and Pine lake was purchased of the county, giving the cemetery the ownership of its entire frontage upon on of the most beautiful lakes in the northwest, and a total of about fifty-six acres.
Anyone wishing to donate burial or family tree information about
families in this or any LaPorte County cemetery, please contact
us. 
LaPorte had what was named the" Old City Cemetery". This listing includes a partial listing on only the Old City Cemetery of LaPorte city which was moved to Pine Lake Cemetery.
On July 1, 2001 I stopped out at Pine Lake to take some of these photos while returning home from another cemetery I had just photographed. I will return for more photos at a later date along with clearer shots of many of the stones I didn't get a chance to take a picture of. Also we will be putting up the inscription for the memorial that you see at the top of the page and I will try and get an enhanced shot of that too.
As I stood among these old stones, I felt that this was a prime example of how the Indiana Pioneer Cemetery Restoration Project could help out in repairing and uprighting many of the fallen and sunken stones. There are new techniques now available that are much improved over the old days when stones were placed in a cement base which created total obliteration of what the bottom portion of the stone read.
If you would like to offer additional information on the families listed below, please contact us at laportecountyin@yahoo.com
Thank you to Terry Schliewe for submitting this partial listing and to Fern Eddy Schultz, the LaPorte County Historian, for researching and finding this valuable information. Here is a portion of the information gleaned from his letter: There was an old cemetery on the west edge of La Porte, called the Old City Cemetery. It was closed for the most part in the 1870's, when both Pine Lake and Patton Cemetery had been established. In a newspaper article dated 23 March 1893, a list of names were published of those buried in the Old City Cemetery. It offered relatives a chance to relocate their deceased loved ones to the cemetery of their choice. Those that weren't claimed were moved in 1893 and are now buried in a mass grave in the Pine Lake Cemetery.
The names printed in the Daily Herald as being reinterred are:
| Wm B Hale Laucy McCollum Emily Storms Anna Bihler Daniel Abbott Sally Ann Pierce Adelia May Fulton Arvilley B Abbot Hedwig Hoebel Infant H K Druliner Little Olive Windiate Little George Windiate George Loveland Emily McIntyre Endin Miner Joseph Burrell James Cunningham Elizabeth M Troxell Richard Clement Carolina Clement Sophronia Bailey Joseph Wideman Korona Albrecht Priscilla Burdine John B Mathews Chas A Tucker Horance Tucker Geo Henry Shelden Carrie M Shelden Wm H Shelden Ann T Snodgrass Edwin D Brown James H Brown Roxanna Brown G W Brandon Wm Brandon J V Brandon M K J Shaw Gertrand Zechgeb Mary R Smith Nicholas De Myer Frances Augusta Rhinehart Wm S Campbell Josiah W Wing |
Thos P Armstrong Margaret K Armstrong Harriet B Wing Jane C Bear Sarah F Bear Eliza Maria Stebbins Permelia P Wilson John Wilson Elizabeth K Woodson Francis Smith Harvey Collins Harriet A Collins Charlette E Collins Wm Brown Philura Brown Theodore Brown Viola Brown Chas E Beckner Alice M Tower Sarah E Tower Wealthy Tower Jane E Miller Wm O Miller Ida M Miller Amelia Mercury Julia Adelia Hews Martha F Hews Martha Walker James C Howell Hallett Fraancis O Brown Warren Hill Amelia Blackburn Sylvester S Oaks ______Oaks ______Oaks Hammel H Baker Mary Seymour Kate Seymour Cyrus Heaton Lydia E Heaton Chas E Hart Jacob A Hart Sarah Ann Mix |
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 Over view of Old City Reburials |
 Otis D Slocum |
 view of Old City Reburials |
 Smith, Burdine and others |
 Michael Haas |
 Haller and other stones |
 Kipps, Burnett and others |
 Lucy Brown, McIntyre and others |
 Mary Elizabeth Soward and other stones |