Chapel in Pine Lake
Cemetery
Over view and Cremation Holder
in right of picture
Chapel in Pine Lake Cemetery |
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Over view and Cremation Holder in right of picture |
| 1st Interment in this cemetery was in 1858 |
Pine Lake was started in August of 1856 when the "Old City Cemetery" in LaPorte became too small. And the Pine Lake Cemetery Association dates back to 1858 when the first known burial took place. 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. When the remains of those buried in the old cemetery were removed to Pine Lake Cemetery, 499 bodies and many tombstones could not be identified.
DONATED AND RESEARCHED SURNAMES LOCATED IN PINE LAKE CEMETERY
We have commenced putting up this alphabetical listing as of January 2009. If you have older or newer burials you would like to contribute, please let us know.
Many of the listed burials as of January, 2009 are from the Gretchen Tyler collection of modern day obits. Please note on the alphabetical listings of burials, the left hand column is the burial listing. Names were only placed there when I could locate either obit, tombstone photo or other data stating the person was buried in Pine Lake Cemetery. This is why you will see husbands and wives listed in additional info column, if I did not have documentation or notification of burial of spouse.
| A | B | C | D |
| E | F | G | H |
| I | J | K | L |
| Mc & M | N | O | P |
| Q | R | S | T |
| U &V | W | X & Y | Z |
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USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. Material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, *and* permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. This cemetery is NOT owned by the city of LaPorte but is a separate entity and operated by an association.
Anyone with a listing or wishing to transcribe the older burials in this cemetery please contact Deanna West . This is an active and very large cemetery and is not scheduled for reading with in the near future. Volunteers at present are concentrating on many of the retired and older cemeteries.
Please remember when calling this or any cemetery to ask for a few burials and not all of one family interned in the cemetery. An example of what not to ask would be "I want to know all the Smiths or all the Jonses buried here".
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Cemetery and Research
Association of LaPorte County, Indiana