“About 100 yards northeast of the southwest corner of the S. E. ¼ S. W. ¼ Section 23, T 1 S R 5 W, on the farm of Alois Birk (trustee of Bainbridge Township) is a pretty hill or mound, just northeast of his barn. It slopes northeast. This land was bought of the government by Wm. C. Graham on October 1, 1836. It lies east of State Road 45. On the point two Catholic children were buried in the late thirties of the last century. This was before a Catholic graveyard had been established at Jasper. Alois Birk related to the
writer that about 1870, his father showed him the two graves and told him relatives were buried there because when they died there was no Catholic graveyard at Jasper. Mr. Birk does not recall their names but knows one was about four years of age, and that they were cousins, he thinks. In 1930, while leveling the point dark soil appeared on the surface which recalled to Mr. Birk’s mind what his father had told him sixty years before. Grading ceased and the spot respected.”