Bates Cemetery, Boone TownshipIndex of Bates Cemetery burials . . . .
The Bates Cemetery was located in the southeast quarter of Section 3 of Township 33
North, Range 7 West, north of the Hebron. The 1876 plat map of Boone Township indicates that David Hurlburt owned the property on which the Bates Cemetery
was located, while Edith
Bates is shown as the owner of the property in the 1895 plat map of Boone
Township.
In 1902, the Bates farm and burial ground were sold. The four known graves in
the cemetery were disinterred and removed elsewhere. One of the four caskets was
found to be in relatively good shape. The remaining three caskets, however, were
found to be decomposed and only a few bones were found.
The names of the four individuals interred from the Bates Cemetery is unknown, as is the
cemetery where the remains were reburied.
According to information published in 1997 in the Boone Township cemetery index
prepared by the Northwest Indiana Genealogical Society, ". . . a wagon wheel was
found there along with a wooden marker with the following burial information on
it 'Pioneer Settlers in the Spring of 1855, a West Bound wagon train stricken
with Scarlet fever to bury its dead.'"
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Bates Cemetery data prepared by Steven R. Shook