The county recorder's office should have the grantor/grantee deed books, if they have not been lost or destroyed by fire. Looking in the index under "T" for trustee deeds for the section of the township you need. Henry county used 16-10-11 (example) for Section #(16)-township(10) and range(11) and look for church trustees listed in the abstract. I found all of these under "Trustee." http://hcgs.net/church.html UEB Henry Co., IN INPCRP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rich Green" <rgreen@insightbb.com> To: <INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 5:08 PM Subject: Re: [INPCRP] Lost Church and Records > Howdy LA, > > Have you thought about trying to establish who the pastor and or other > church officials were for the time period in question? > > If the names are known you may be able to locate ancestors. Maybe there > are church records to be found within their personal papers (assuming that > there are any to be found). It's a long shot I know. > > If the cemetery is located in a well established community, there may be > health department records, but I suppose these would probably be found > within one of your sources already listed. > > Good luck, > > Rich Green > Historic Archaeological Research > 4338 Hadley Court > West Lafayette, IN 47906 > Office: (765) 464-8735 > Mobile: (765) 427-4082 > www.har-indy.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: L.A. CLUGH > To: INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 4:36 PM > Subject: [INPCRP] Lost Church and Records > > > List, > I have worked with a lady who is seeking information on a Church cemetery > in > Indiana. > She has been through all the normal people and place in the County and > the > State > Library and Fort Wayne too. This was a Presbyterian church and she has > also > checked > with the National Church archives. No one knows anything about this so > far. > The building is long gone, the Church was listed in the 1878? Atlas. It > must > have closed > before the 1880's. > > So my question to you all. If we were to create a list of places to > look > for > information on who is buried in a cemetery, where would you look? > I will be glad to collect all your wonderful ideas for a page for future > researchers. > > Most of these are burials before 1880's. Records end up in the strangest > places. > > L.A. > > Other than: > County Historical Society > County Library > County Courthouse > County Historians > State Library > Fort Wayne Library > LDS microfilms > Church Archives > > > ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== > Blessed are the Elderly, for they remember what we will never know. > > > > ==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== > THIS IS A CEMETERY ----- > "Lives are commemorated - deaths are recorded - families > are reunited - memories are made tangible - and love is > undisguised. This is a cemetery. > "Communities accord respect, families bestow reverence, > historians seek information and our heritage is thereby enriched. > "Testimonies of devotion, pride and remembrance are carved > in stone to pay warm tribute to accomplishments and to the life - > not the death - of a loved one. The cemetery is homeland for family > memorials that are a sustaining source of comfort to the living. > "A cemetery is a history of people - a perpetual record of > yesterday and sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery > exists because every life is worth loving and remembering - always." > --Author unknown -- Seen at a monument dealer in West Union, IA > >