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burial, obituaries or family tree information
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or any LaPorte County cemetery, please Deanna West at laportecountyin@yahoo.com .
Below Obituaries may be found at
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Donated Obituaries
& Family
Tidbits for
Westville Cemetery, Indiana
Allen, Nathan, - The La Porte Daily-Argus, La Porte, Indiana,
Tuesday, March 23, 1920 page 3
Austin, - Effie Imes Austin, wife of Archibald C. Austin May 11,
1899. (Obituary)
Cole, Harry Edwin - Harry Edwin Cole son of J. W. and Elma C. Cole
Concannon, Mrs. Sarah - Obituary appeared in an 1867 newspaper.
Pedro or Petro, Sarah (Cole) - Further investigation resulted in my finding her death date as 9 Nov 1903 in Logansport, Cass, IN.
DREWS/DRAVES that are buried in this cemetery
1)
Mina Drews born Sep 26 1866 Indiana DEAD Feb 8 1888 married Heinrich Drews and
is the mother of Otto Carl Draves & Clara Draves
Otto Carl
Draves BORN Sep 8 1887 DEAD Feb 1966 and is buried in Westville Cemetery with
his wife Fern L
I found them on the list of the cemetery Otto
& Sister Clara are both in the 1900 census with they grandparents Mary
Powell nee Ahlgrim & Carl (Charles)
Powell Otto is in the
1920 & 1930 with wife Fern & daughter Helen If you would like more
information on Mary Powell nee Ahlgrim she was mother
of 4 kids and Mina is one
of them Contributed by" Cabral, Kathryn at kcabral@firstam.com
Mina Draves nee Powell is the sister to
1)
William Carl Powell born May 22 1871 Dead Aug 14 1951 wife Martha Augustin
buried in Westville Cemetery also daughter
Edna m Powell born May 8 1906 dead
Mar 26 2002 she is in Westville cemetery
2) Ida Powell born Jan
3 1870 Dead Feb 11 1870 buried in Westville cemetery
3) Louise
Rotzean nee Powell born Apr 11 1873 dead 1941 husband is Christian A Rotzean
born 1868 dead 1942
buried in Westville Cemetery plus son Roy H Rotzean born
Mar 21 1893 Dead Dec 26 1898 is buried in Westville cemetery
still trying to get photo of there headstone no luck yet
Mina
mother & Father Mary Powell nee Ahlgrim born May 5 1850 Germany dead
Feb 27 1938 Indiana & Charles Powell
born Nov 10 1832 Germany dead Mar 19
1909 buried in Westville Cemetery (photo)
GAW, JOHN E. - Source:
LaPorte Herald Argus, Mon, Apr 29, 1968 pg. 3.
Lewis, Florence M. (Loomis) - Contributor - William A. Strong - see donations page for email.
Lewis, Joseph S. - Source: Westville Indicator; Westville, Indiana - Thursday, January 13, 1898, page 3 col.,7 Contributor - William A. Strong
Lewis, Lucinda A Havens - Source: Westville Indicator; Westville,
Indiana - Thursday, March 4, 1895, page 3 col 3:
Lewis, Milton W - May 4th, 1857 to Sept. 7th, 1939
Thomas - Mrs. Olive (Lewis) - July 29th 1860 - May 17, 1943
Thompson, Mrs. Deborah -
