Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2014 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== A Standard History of Starke County, Indiana McCormick, Joseph N. - 1915 [186-187] NORTH JUDSON CEMETERY --------------------- The land contained in the North Judson Cemeteiy (original plat) was conveyed by Ebenezer Jones and Elizabeth Jones, his wife, to John Sharp, Ebenezer Jones, A. L. Chenoweth, Levi Lightcap and Isaac Aldrich, as trustees of the North Judson Cemetery. The said described land, to-wit: Commencing twenty-five rods west of the southeast corner of section seventeen (17), township thirty-two (32) north, range three (3) west, thence running west thirteen (13) rods, thence north thirteen (13) rods, thence east thirteen (13) rods, thence south thirteen (13) rods to the place of beginning, being a part of the southeast quarter of said section seventeen. Said deed was signed by Ebenezer Jones and Elizabeth Jones, his wife, who acknowledged the same before A. B. Ellis, a justice of the peace, on the 15th day of November, 1862, and filed for record in the recorder's office January 3d, 1862, and recorded by Willoughby M. McCormick, recorder of Starke County, Indiana, in Record " E " at page 726. Then deed record "T" at page 431 in the recorder's office we find that Lewis Keller and Nettie C. Keller, his wife, convey to the North Judson Cemetery the following lands, to-wit: Commencing at the northwest corner of the old cemetery, thence running north 175 feet, thence in a northeasterly course 291 feet to the north- west corner of the school lot. Thence in a southwesterly course 332 feet, thence in a southwesterly direction 80 feet, thence south 16 feet, thence west 375 feet to the place of beginning, being a part of the southeast quarter of section 17, township 32 north, range 3 west. Signed, Lewis Keller, Nettie C. Keller, and acknowledged before L. E. Bernethy, a justice of the peace, April 1, 1880, and recorded April 12, 1880.