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 [185] OAK PARK CEMETERY ------------------- Several years ago it was found to be necessary to extend the size of this (Crown Hill) cemetery by adding another addition to it or procure ground elsewhere. A decision of the health officer of the town stated that it would be a violation of our laws to lay out any more cemetery in or so near to the town. Then a company was organized and land bought for a new cemetery. This company con- sisting of the following named pereons, to-wit: Mark R. Wright, president; John G. Kratli, vice president; John C. Jones, secre- tary; Wilber A. Pierson, treasurer; George W. Beeman, and Fred A. Chapel, as trustees, with William E. Pinney, Jacob Bozarth, Adam F. Seider and James C. Fletcher, with Joseph N. McCormick, engineer, did lay out the following laud into a cemetery known as Oak Park Cemetery, the north half of the northwest quarter of southwest quarter of section 27, township 33 north, range 2 west, making 703 lots with walks and driveways through it. This cemetery was laid out on the 26th of January, 1900. This cemetery lies south of town about one and a half miles from the courthouse. It has a good gravel road on the west line and is also accessible by a track leading into it on the east side from the gravel road running north and south. It is a great consolation to the friends to have a neat and well kept cemetery where they can bury their precious ones.