FITZER

 Cemetery is on the South-Terrace-Rim of the Southern Tributary of the Wabash River known as KEEP’S CREEK, and near & near the W. edge of the S.W.1/4 of scc.7 of T.26N., R.I.E.; & on the E.side of the N & S Meridian road county-highway which forms the 2^nd IN. P.M. & about 1 mile N. of State Highway 25 [Logansport-Delphi & Lafayette] in S.W.-central CLINTON TOWNSHIP in S.W. CASS COUNTY, INDIANA.

It’s about 1 mile slightly-N.W. of CLYMERS , IN.

    Many of the little old monuments are broken and crumbling so that it’s possible this cemetery’s location could be lost. On the East side of the North-South Road ( Meridian Rd. ) & at the cemetery’s S.W. corner, is a “Landmark”, a rather conspicuously Y shaped tree, the trunk being about 2 ft. in diameter, forks only a few feet above the ground with one branch being about 1 1/2 inches & the other about 1 ft. in diameter. In the cultivated field immediately south of a thorny-wooded pasture in which the cemetery lies & near the cemetery’s S.W. corner is a large & conspicuous low place which may have had gravel or other earth removed many years ago but an aerial photograph shows that at least part of it was washed out by natural drainage but of the field lying S.& S.E. of the cemetery was dug out by men.

  The road which runs North at the cemetery’s West edge gradually descends in to a Hollow of Keep’s Creek with the cemetery on High ground 30 ft. above. The creek-hollow which lies a to the north with the descent into the hollow being fairly steep from the cemetery’s North edge.

This little & long abandoned in 1885, Pioneer cemetery is situated on a farm owned by the FITZER family since the land was first entered & patented –some 11 decades ago,[1831] as of the report on Sept.28, 1941 & the fieldwork was done on May 5, 1941 for the

L’ANGUILLE VALLEY MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION

500 Front Street

Logansport , Indiana

by

MR. AND MRS HARRY FITZER-R.R.2, Logansport , IN

Report being prepared by

R.B. Whitsett Jr., Secretary of the L’A.V.M.A.

For the

INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY

INDIANAPOLIS , INDIANA

Editorial Comment: There are in this abandoned cemetery at least 25 un-marked graves in addition to graves marked only by very shallow carved & totally undecipherable limestone markers obtained by the pioneers from the E.G., the nearby bed of the Wabash River.

  Mr. Harry Fitzer who resided a few rods from the cemetery recalled the most recent or final interment some 55 years previous to this report in 1941 says, “Was an unmarried adult lady surnamed Woods. A lady who was often called “Sis” [Sister?] Woods,  whose given name he has forgotten & whose grave is now unmarked.”

The late Historian, Dr. J.Z. Powell canvassed this cemetery about 1909 (long-after it’s abandonment) & recorded a Mexican War Veteran buried here by the name of David Stumbaugh d.1950 aged 62 years. In 1941 the L’A.V.M.A. could find no evidence of his burial here but found that his monument had been moved to the Clymer’s cemetery & is included in that report.

  Fitzer. Joseph & Sarah Local Historian,  T.B. Helm wrote “He was a Kentukian who settled in Lawrence Co., OH but entered land in Cass Co., after a trip here in 1830 & moved his family here in 1831.” The remains of Joseph & Sarah have since been moved to the beautiful Clymers

 Peter Palmer: “Sweet Little Child,

                        For Earth too Fair,

                        Has Gone to Heaven,

                      To Dwell Forever There.” 

Re-typed for the Cass County INGenWeb by Pat Pfiscel