Jay County Indiana - Jaqua Cemetery

Jaque Cemetery

Also known as Old Portland or Shanks Cemetery, the GPS coordinates are Latitude: 40.42690, Longitude: -84.98360 in Wayne Township.
The current listing is taken from the information on the previous Jay Co Burials page, photographs and obituaries.
Note: M/M - Mr and Mrs; NSF = no stone found; * = birth date calculated from age at death.

If anyone knows the history of the cemetery or anyone buried here, please get in touch with Elaine Geyer.

Many thanks to Jim Cox for finding these old obituaries!

Posted 10/7/2013; updated 10/30/2018

Jaque or Jaqua Cemetery
Last Name	First Name (Maiden)	Birth Date	Death Date	Spouse Marriage Date	Parents	Military	Obit	Stone
Adams	Bertha		8/19/1885		R J & E
Ainsworth	Sarah J	1790	11/11/1842
Alcorn	infant		8/11/1894		M/M Bert		obit
Atkinson	E A	5/25/1857	2/25/1876
Ayers	William	11/27/1848*	7/4/1893	E Turner - 10/12/1871			obit
Bell	infant son	9/5/1869	9/5/1869		L S
Bell	John	11/7/1846	9/18/1876
Bell	John W	9/19/1875	9/10/1876		J S & S
Bell	Mary Hettie	3/10/1871	1/21/1879		William & M J
Beston	Abigail	2/11/1852	12/11/1882	C P
Bolen	Jane (Sample)	10/28/1845	12/18/1872	Wesley P	Robert R & Hannah Peterson Sample
Bolen	Wesley Patrick	1/10/1828	2/19/1886
Bragg	Horace Leuransie	4/23/1870	9/2/1894		Talbert		obit
Bragg	Ramsey	abt 1873	9/2/1894		Talbert		obit
Centers	Margaret	abt 1829	4/14/1904				obit
Crawford	infant		3/5/1895		M/M James		obit
Farber	John M	6/6/1836	6/1/1839		Lewis S
Farber	Mary Ann	9/22/1816	4/19/1840	Lewis S
Farber	Milligan		6/7/1839
Graham	Catherine
Graham	Sarah Jane
Green	Elizabeth	6/6/1848	11/12/1881	Edward O
Guldice	Alonzo	abt 4/0/1899	1/12/1900		M/M George		obit
Hays	Sophia Almaretta		8/4/1876
Hunter	Charles M	10/6/1870	5/24/1873		E H & M
Jelleff	Cecilia M	3/12/1851	2/10/1866
Jelleff	Cyrus	8/20/1807	9/13/1878
Jelleff	George	1/23/1851	3/23/1862
Jelleff	Patience	2/8/1801	2/14/1885	Cyrus
Keck	Nina	3/30/1873	3/30/1873		C W & R E J
Khieuaall	Catherine		1/24/1872	Jan
Kukendall	Catharine		6/29/1878
Lanning	John		1893	Mary Ann Welch - 7/22/1881
Lanning	Mary Ann (Welch)	4/0/1864	2/27/1904	John Lanning - 1881; William H Lanning	James A & Rebecca E Drum Welch		obit
Maness	Joseph	1/23/1864	9/30/1882
Mayo	Salome Kinsey		1/1/1874
Nelson	Joseph	8/6/1862	7/8/1896				obit
Nelson	Sylvia	8/2/1850	9/2/1872	G A
Parmenter	Ruth		7/21/1897				obit
Pennock	George W
Perdue	Joshua Burton	1/26/1823	8/22/1887	Synthia J Woods - 1844; Louisa Longnecker - 1857		44th OH Vol	obit
Rhea	Robert		5/5/1850
Sample	Bolen
Saunders	Annie L	8/3/1881	9/6/1881		William
Stranatham	Robert	66 yrs	2/4/1865
Swain	James	9/13/1800	10/19/1846
Tate	infant		2/3/1893		M/M Arthur		obit
Watson	Francis		10/10/1882		B & C
Welch	Rebecca	abt 1841	2/8/1904				obit