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lUi 1U ivi lUtUAUIn this investigation it is curious to note the various forms of deeds, and the carelessness in writing and recording deeds. Prior tc* 1860 nearly all cemeteries were laid out and occupied many years before any deeds of conveyance were made and often when*deeds were made they were not placed on record for many years thereafter. In one instance I foand a deed made in 1849 but was not recorded until 1900 or over fifty years after its date.In early days when Cass county was a wilderness, sparseiy settled, with no roads, no churches, no churchyards, no undertakers, with the pioneers’ cabin separated by miles of intervening forests; when death entered one of these cabins, which it frequently did from the effects of the deadly malaria, the only means of disposing of their dead was to make a rough box and tenderly lay their loved ones away on a knoll near the cabin under the spreading branches of a giant forest tree. In early days it was next to impossible to purchase a grave stone or marker and today many a pioneer lies peacefully sleeping in an unmarked grave and in many-cases unknown to this generation.“Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire,Hands that the rod of . empire might have swayed,Or wake to ecstacy the living lyre.”“The boast of heraldry the pomp of power,And all that beauty, all that wealth ere gave,Await alike the inevitable hour,The paths of glory lead but to the grave.” /Although by diligent research I have found 123 burial places in Cass county, yet I believe there are still other places where individuals have been interred that have escaped my researches. The natural conditions and surroundings of the pioneer made I individual and family burial grounds a necessity. As the country became settled, and improved, roads constructed and churches erected, with their churchyard, the individual, family and neighborhood burial grounds wereabandoned and the dead were buried in the churchyard or larger cemetery.In many cases the dead were re-moved from the private or family burial ground to the larger cemetery, but in many other cases, they were left to sleep in their original last resting place, sometimes unmarked, unknown and forgotten by this generation.The3r, however, as peacefully slumber*in that unmarked and forgotten pioneer grave as though they were lying in yonder churchyard to be daily trodden over by idle and thoughtless crowds in hearing distance of the chimes of the great church bells of today.There are a ‘number of burial grounds in Cass county that are run over by stock and the farmer’s plow, and in some cases the farmer of todayis as unconscious of the fact as thesilent occupant of the graves over which he plows. In other cases the burial places are known but are unheeded in this fast and utilitarian age.
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Logansport Daily Tribune
Logansport, Indiana, US
Tue, Feb 25, 1908
Page 5
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Roberta H.
USA 29 Jan 2020
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