Pinhook Cemetery
New Durham Twp
LaPorte County

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Site updated June 26, 2005 - The folks at Pinhook Cemetery have been very busy. Above are photos taken in June 2005 of the new entrances and beautiful fencing for the cemetery.

We are currently updating this cemetery listing as the last listing was done several years ago and we are not sure if it is complete. Notes added under "Additional Comments" column contain both personal notes added by transcriber at cemetery site and some tombstone readings. I was able to get a few more dates, from some of the newer stones, while photographing this cemetery.

Notes from Deanna West - Pinhook Cemetery sits on the corner pf State Road Hwy 2 and South Wozniak Road. Entrances into the cemetery are at State Hwy 2 and Wozniak Road.
This quaint cemetery gives the impression of stepping back in time; with the historic Pinhook Methodist Church meticulously brought back to all its past glory.
Around 1987 Julia Alt and Phyllis Marks, along with their husbands Vernon and Tom, spearheaded a drive to restore the Pinhook Methodist Church and an open house was held on Memorial Day in 1987 so people could see the deteriorated condition. Another open house was held in 1988 to show the restoration in progress. In 1989 a Renovation Celebration took place, again on Memorial Day. The church is adjacent to the cemetery where many of the settlers of LaPorte County are buried. The oldest portion of the cemetery is directly behind the church standing on a curve of what was once an Indian trail next to Pinhook Cemetery. Surnames such as Herrold, Miller, Welch and Norris along with other families, and families that were joined in marriage to these pioneers of LaPorte County, are among the burials.

Levi Garwood donated the land for the construction of Pinhook Community Methodist Church in 1846.
The oldest burial per stone record appears to be Ugene Davis, age 3 mo. 12 da., he died May 6, 1850.
The Pinhook Church which was built as a Methodist Church in 1847 but has served several different denominations.
A Baptist congregation moved to a new church just two miles west on Indiana 2 at its junction with US 421 in the middle of the 1960's.

Once a few years later the small little white church was used by a small informal group that called it he Pinhook Community Church. When no one seemed to want it for a church anymore, the national Methodist confederation deeded the church to the Pinhook Cemetery Board in 1968. The cemetery is kept in immaculate condition as far as mowing and keeping debris clear of graves and many improvements.

Veterans - Pinhook Cemetery
War of 1812 - John Glass see burial listing. Civil War = 20 burials; WW I = 18 burials, WW II = 20 burials, Vietnam = 1 burial Korean War = 2 burials as of this reading done in the 1990's.

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