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Subject: [INBLACKF] Wants the Title to Graveyard Quieted, 1907
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:40:54 -0000

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Surnames: Schmidt, Thornburg
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The Evening Herald, October 12, 1907, p4 c 2

Wants the Title to Graveyard Quieted
Cemetery at Dundee may be Converted into a Farm

Thomas L Thornburg vs William Schmidt and others is the title of an interesting unit filed this week in the Blackford circuit and the outcome of which will be closely watched.
The plaintiff is seeking to quiet the title to an acre of ground in Washington township which years ago was used as a public burying grounds and wherein the bodies of a number of the county's pioneers are interred. Back in Civil War times about the year 1863, Wilhelm Schmidt had a cemetery laid out near the worn of Dundee by the county surveyor. Afterwards he undertook to deed the land to certain trustees, but through error the title was never clear. At his death the property came into the possession of his heirs and passed through the hands of Michael Schmidt to Thomas L Thornburg as an entirety and without any reservation.
Thornburg now seeks to quiet the title to the acre of ground in order that he may transform the burying grounds into farming land. In all there are about 150 old residents buried there, including the original owner Wilhelm Schmidt. If the title is quieted as prayed for, residents who have relatives buried there probably will either have to have the bodies exhumed or pay the owner sufficient rents to keep him from plowing up their last resting places and sowing it in farm products, it is said.
-Hartford City Times Gazette.

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