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Anyone familiar with this cemetery? Hammond, Indiana

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Re: Anyone familiar with this cemetery? Hammond, Indiana

LBlaskovich  (View posts) Posted: 9 Feb 2013 2:03AM GMT
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Hello - you didn't mention the name of the deceased, but perhaps this is the cemetery? http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/lake/cemetery/hess-pap.txt - this is for the Hess/Hessville/Pauper Cemetery in Hessville, a par of Hammond, IN.

According to my parents, who grew up & still live in that area, this "Paupers" cemetery was originally established on the Hess family farm for the Hess family, later was a true "paupers" cemetery, and eventually evolved into just a rather inactive regular but small cemetery.

Dad also mentioned another cemetery not far away from this one, also located in the Hessville part of Hammond, that he could not recall the name of & I couldn't locate one on the internet.

I'm heading down that way over the next couple weeks & can go poking around if you'd like. Just email me & let me know a name to look for as I traipse amongst the stones :-)
SubjectAuthorDate Posted
trishegbert_2 2 Feb 2013 6:34PM GMT 
kacia56 6 Feb 2013 7:21PM GMT 
LHSwisher 7 Feb 2013 2:03AM GMT 
LBlaskovich 9 Feb 2013 2:03AM GMT 
   

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