L.A. The sources you cited are quite general, so I'm not sure where in the 'courthouse' you are referring to. But for the sake of it anyway, there are two possible types of records in the county recorder's office. The first is the deed records, where cemetery plots could be recorded. The other is a cemetery book, where the same type of record could be found. Also, in some cemetery records in the recorder's office are found the organizational documents of when the cemetery was organized, if it was governed by a board. Some of our original cemetery plat maps are also recorded in this office... The only other source I would know of having used them myself are obituaries/death notices in local newspapers. It sounds as if all most, if not all, bases have been covered. Your only hope would be that the records are in private hands and that they may surface some day... Kyle > 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 >

I found the original plat map of our cemetery, on linen cloth, which was said to be destroyed, in the township trustees office, which had taken it over when the cemetery was abandon. Also, at the state archives, on 30th Street, they have many W.P.A maps of Veterans and where they were buried, which gives clues to the layout of most farm and church cemeteries and the grid location. ..cousin Bob