Index to Locations
Clymers Keeps Creek Cemetery
Logansport Mt. Hope Cemetery
Keeps Creek
Cemetery
Clymers, Cass County, Indiana
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Robert Scott Justice (1912-1992) —
of Cass
County, Ind.
Born in Logansport, Cass
County, Ind., March 8,
1912.
Republican. School
teacher; lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1945-48, 1951-52; defeated, 1948;
member of Indiana
state senate, 1957-60; defeated, 1960.
Presbyterian.
Scotch-Irish
and English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Rotary;
Farm
Bureau; Toastmasters;
United
Commercial Travelers; Delta
Chi; Delta
Sigma Rho.
Died December
9, 1992 (age 80 years, 276
days).
Interment at Keeps Creek Cemetery.
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William Franklin Justice (1914-1996) —
Born in Clinton Township, Cass
County, Ind., August
2, 1914.
Farmer;
member of Indiana
state senate, 1981-84.
Presbyterian.
Scotch-Irish
and English
ancestry. Member, Farm
Bureau; Freemasons;
Eagles.
Died in Lafayette, Tippecanoe
County, Ind., September
5, 1996 (age 82 years, 34
days).
Interment at Keeps Creek Cemetery.
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Mt. Hope
Cemetery
Logansport, Cass County, Indiana
Politicians buried
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John Tipton (1786-1839) —
of Logansport, Cass
County, Ind.
Born in Sevier
County, Tenn., August
14, 1786.
Democrat. Member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1819-23; U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1832-39.
Died in Logansport, Cass
County, Ind., April 6,
1839 (age 52 years, 235
days).
Interment at Mt. Hope Cemetery.
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Daniel Darwin Pratt (1813-1877) —
also known as Daniel D. Pratt —
of Logansport, Cass
County, Ind.
Born in Palermo, Waldo
County, Maine, October
24, 1813.
Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1847; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Indiana; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1850-53; member of Indiana
Republican State Central Committee, 1860; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Indiana, 1860,
1868
(alternate); served in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1869-75.
Unitarian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Logansport, Cass
County, Ind., April
17, 1877 (age 63 years, 175
days).
Interment at Mt. Hope Cemetery.
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Graham Newell Fitch (1809-1892) —
also known as Graham N. Fitch —
of Logansport, Cass
County, Ind.
Born in Le Roy, Genesee
County, N.Y., December
5, 1809.
Democrat. Physician;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1836-37, 1839-40; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 9th District, 1849-53; U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1857-61; colonel in the Union Army during
the Civil War; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Indiana, 1868.
Episcopalian.
Died in Logansport, Cass
County, Ind., November
28, 1892 (age 82 years, 359
days).
Interment at Mt. Hope Cemetery.
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Rufus Magee (1845-1929) —
of Indiana.
Born in Logansport, Cass
County, Ind., October
17, 1845.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Indiana, 1880;
member of Indiana
state senate, 1883-85, 1891-93; U.S. Minister to Sweden, 1885-89.
Died in Logansport, Cass
County, Ind., April
25, 1929 (age 83 years, 190
days).
Interment at Mt. Hope Cemetery.
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Charles Beary Landis (1858-1922) —
also known as Charles B. Landis —
of Delphi, Carroll
County, Ind.
Born in Millville, Butler
County, Ohio, July 9,
1858.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 9th District, 1897-1909; defeated,
1908.
Swiss
and German
ancestry.
Died, from uremia
due to interstital
nephritis, in Meriwether Hospital,
Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C., April
24, 1922 (age 63 years, 289
days).
Interment at Mt. Hope Cemetery.
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Frederick Daniel Landis (1872-1934) —
also known as Frederick Landis; Fred
Landis —
of Logansport, Cass
County, Ind.
Born in Sevenmile, Butler
County, Ohio, August
18, 1872.
U.S.
Representative from Indiana 11th District, 1903-07; defeated
(Republican), 1906; Progressive candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of Indiana, 1912; candidate in Republican primary for Governor of
Indiana, 1928.
Swiss
and German
ancestry.
Died in a hospital
at Logansport, Cass
County, Ind., November
6, 1934 (age 62 years, 80
days).
Interment at Mt. Hope Cemetery.
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John C. Nelson (d. 1935) —
of Indiana.
Democrat. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana 11th District, 1902.
Died in 1935.
Interment at Mt. Hope Cemetery.
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Charles Kahlo (1840-1904) —
of Logansport, Cass
County, Ind.
Born in Berlin, Germany,
July
4, 1840.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of
Indiana
state senate, 1879-81; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Indiana, 1880.
Presbyterian.
Member, Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias.
Died March 2,
1904 (age 63 years, 242
days).
Interment at Mt. Hope Cemetery.
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Frank M. McHale (1891-1975) —
of Logansport, Cass
County, Ind.
Born in Logansport, Cass
County, Ind., April 4,
1891.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Indiana, 1932,
1940,
1944
(speaker),
1948,
1956,
1960,
1964,
1968;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Indiana, 1939-47.
Died in Miami, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla., January
26, 1975 (age 83 years, 297
days).
Interment at Mt. Hope Cemetery.
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