Peru Mount Hope Obits added

I added over 500 new obits today and over 200 "new and improved obits" from the collection of recent obits we digitized from Mount Hope files. These are all from the past 8-10 years. I plan to enter the interments in the Mausoleum next, then I will continue adding burials from the early sections of the cemetery including Oak Grove area.

Debby

Peru Mount Hope Additions

I just uploaded a new version of Peru Mount Hope with 482 additional burials and lots of dates and locations filled in as well. There is lots more to come.

Debby

Weekly Genealogy Blogging Prompt #19

My favorite genealogy repository is Kokomo-Howard County Public Library's Genealogy and Local History Department. This is where I work. We have friendly and knowledgable service, a book collection of over 13,000 books, clipping files, microfilm of newspapers, court records, WPA Vital Record indexes for Indiana and much, much more. Please come visit when you are in the neighborhood.

We also provide online databases for use in-house - Ancestry Library . com, footnote.com; as well as Heritage Quest for library card holders both at home and at the library and Kokomo Newspaper Archive is available by visiting the Genealogy Department Webpage and following the instructions.

Due to the upcoming remodeling project, we will be closed while we move the collection and set it up at the new temporary location (TBA). I expect this will be sometime in mid to late July until mid to late August.

Debby

Peru Mount Hope Update

Nearly 2 weeks ago I was contactly by Beverly Jeffers, sexton of Peru Mount Hope Cemetery, with an offer of information for the website. Since Ed and I have a passion for cemetery information and honoring & remembering those who have gone before us, we were happy to have this opportunity.

The next day, we drove to Peru to meet Bev and see what was available. We had our trusty digital camera and fresh batteries ready. We started taking digital photos of the burial books. Bev showed us some of the areas on the cemetery map including the original plat, Oak Grove, baby rows and sections, Potters Field and a Jewish area. There is also a circus area as Peru has a rich history of circuses and performers. This will allowed for a bit more detail in the mapping on the site in the future.

In the past two weeks we have taken 4 trips to take digital photos of the burial books and a collection of obituaries and burial cards from about 2002 to the present. All of this information will be added to the site as time allows. I also have 3000 tombstone photos taken by Regine Brindle waiting to be matched. I believe that having the data in the database will be very helpful to matching photos of the very old and worn stones in the original and Oak Grove areas.

Watch for frequent updates.
Debby

Logansport Mount Hope Cemetery

I uploaded updated pages for Mount Hope including a few hundred photos and a few dozen obits. I have been tweaking several smaller cemetery pages including Patterson Cemetery (Jackson Twp. Cass Co, IN) and Mays (Miami Co/Cass Co. line northeast of Onward).

I finished updating the Crider Chapel Cemetery web this evening. Ricky Bellamy sent me tombstone photos recently. Many thanks to Ricky! I have also added obituaries to a little over 1/4 of the known burials. Happy hunting!
Debby

Disenfranchised Ancestors?

Most of us likely have some disenfranchised ancestors. These are people who may not have been accepted into the mainstream of society or even were not accepted my their own relatives. Awhile back I learned that a great-granduncle had a daughter who was termed an "imbecile." According to my aunt, she was secreted away in a padded room upstairs in the family home. I find no record of her existance. When she died there was no known written death record. There was no obituary in the local newspaper. Although the woman had no decendants, she still had a place and purpose on this earth.

In the spirit of giving each soul importance on this earth, I have been compiling with the help of Mark Brubaker a couple of small databases.

• Burials in the Northern Indiana Hospital for the Insane Cemetery. Most of the entries come from burial records of two funeral homes - 1) McCloskey, Hamilton, Gundrum 1904-1953 and 2) Kroeger 1882-1950. I have also found a few obituaries or death notices. The hospital is also know as Longcliff or Logansport State Hospital. When information was available, I also added the hometown and/or place of birth.
• Burials in the Cass County Home/Infirmiry Cemetery. This is an update to an existing listing of burials that I am working on.

It is my hope that these databases will help someone break through their brick wall. Debby