Stahl Cemetery
Location: On County Road 700 S ½ mile west of State Road 1 in Nottingham Township, Wells County, Indiana.
The
original introduction states “The land for Stahl Cemetery was donated by Mr.
Benjamin Stahl, Mr. Reubin Stahl and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stout. The cemetery
association was incorporated in 1919. The first person to be buried here was a
Stahl infant in 1835. Data was compiled by Mr. & Mrs. Guy Martin and Mr.
Richard Dailey, members of the Wells County Historical Society.”
The Evening News-Banner centennial edition states Joseph Blackledge first settler in 1837. “John Dawson, Lyman Bass, Hezekiah Grimes, Peter Garner, Abram Stahl, John Nutter, Isaac and Edward Haynes, Robert Smith and William Nutter came here with their families in the year following Blackledge’s settlement….Jacob Warner…in 1838”
T.
Burns walked this cemetery and has updated the records through July 21, 2001.
The driveways within Stahl Cemetery divide it into five sections.
There are three sections along the north side and two sections along the
south side with the larger of the two being roughly twice the size of the other
four sections and also the oldest section.
For ease in locating graves, this index denotes the four smaller sections
as northwest (nw), north central (nc), northeast (ne) and southeast (se).
Any entry not carrying one of these notations can be assumed to be in the
larger section.
All
Stahl records before 1928 were destroyed in a fire.
The records that are available were copied in June 1999 and that
information was incorporated into this revised index.
The following funeral home records were cross-referenced to supplement and verify information.
Brown Funeral Home - Warren
Elzey-Dickey Haggard Funeral Home - Ossian
Jahn Funeral Home - Bluffton
McBride Funeral Home – Bluffton
Thoma/Rich Funeral Home – Bluffton - partial
Walker Funeral Home – Montpelier
Warfield Funeral Home - Montpelier
Goodwin Memorial Chapel will be incorporated in the next update.