Winchell Cemetery
Moved to Kingsbury Cemetery in 1941

Established 1835

US 35 and 500 South, Kingsbury, LaPorte County, Indiana

Original Picture of Winchell Cemetery Contributed by Gloria Arndt

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Winchell Cemetery was established in 1835 and was moved to Kingsbury Cemetery to allow building acreage for the Kingsbury Ordnance Plant (in 1941) at the beginning of World War II. Many of the graves moved were unmarked but in accordance with the map of Winchell many of the graves and their headstones were moved behind the church where Kingsbury Cemetery is located at. Also there were several headstones that were unmarked or weathered past the point of recognition.

List of those buried in Winchell Cemetery and moved to Kingsbury when the Kingbury Ordinanace Plant was built:

Ellsworths buried on the William Harrison Winchell lot:

Harriet Ellsworth Winchell, born 14 April 1856, died 18 September 1934
Daughter of Horace Parmalee Ellsworth

Mabel Winchell Holmes, born16 June 1881, died 22 June 1945
Child of Harriet Ellsworth Winchell

Ralph Ellsworth Winchell, born 2 July 1883, died 29 January 1903
Child of Harriet Ellsworth Winchell

William Harrison Winchell, born 25 November 1891, died 30 May 1937
Child of Harriet Ellsworth Winchell

Winchell Lot:
Stephen Winchell, born 1789, died 26 October 1861 Served in War of 1812

Asenath Norris Winchell, born 19 October 1792, died 6 April 1857

James Monroe Winchell, born 19 September 1821, died 20 August 1844

Martha H. Winchell, born 14 November 1823, died 8 July 1845

Harriet Winchell Gurnee, born 7 October 1824, died 6 December 1905

Sarah Winchell Northam, born 18 July 1854, died 18 August 1926

Asa M. Northam, born 2 February 1859, died 16 January 1929

Norris Jones Winchell, born 9 June 1820, died 14 September 1893

Eliza Belden Winchell, born 9 June 1820, died 5 January 1851

Sarah Smith Winchell, born 1820, died 15 October 1857

Melissa Phelps Winchell, born 19 September 1823, died 24 July 1873

Mary Carskadden Winchell, born 29 May 1843, died 30 June 1910

Edith Winchell Bishton, born 18 December 1881, died 10 July 1968

William Bishton, Jr., born 24 June 1879, died 11 August 1954

Dorothy Winchell, born 9 December 1907, died 13 December 1907

Ellsworth Lot

Dora Winchell Ellsworth, born 30 November 1860

William Harrison Winchell Lot – Kingsbury Cemetery

William Harrison Winchell, born 14 August 1812, died 14 June 1888

Louisa Osborne Winchell, born 18 March 1818, died 17 April 1898

Olive Winchell Lamb, born 29 January 1841, died 31 May 1894

Francis Marion Winchell, born17 October 1843, died 15 November 1919
Served in the Civil War

Lillian Dunham Winchell, born 14 July 1855, died 28 April 1930

Daniel Edwin Winchell, born 6 October 1852, died 9 July 1931

Harriet Ellsworth Winchell, born 14 April 1856, died 18 September 1934

Henrietta Winchell Vail, born 2 November 1856, died 21 December 1929

Edward F. Vail, born 1849, died 11 March 1936

William Harrison Winchell, born 25 November 1891, died 30 May 1937

Henry Newell Ellsworth Lot

Henry Newell Ellsworth, born 9 July 1827, died 4 January 1899

Son of Thomas Ellsworth Polly Davis Ellsworth, born 28 January 1832, died 3 January 1917

Edwin Slater Ellsworth, born 21 March 1835, died 20 January 1920

Son of Thomas Ellsworth Virginia Morrical Ellsworth, born 15 June 1835, died 14 June 1920

Alice Ellsworth Craft, born 9 August 1862, died 14 July 1956 Daughter of Edwin Slater Ellsworth

Hiram Thomas Ellsworth, born 1868, died ?
Death index shows a Hiram Ellsworth dying at 50 years old in 1918
Son of Edwin Slater Ellsworth

Frank H. Ellsworth Lot, Kingsbury Cemetery

Thomas Ellsworth, born 26 November 1796, died 23 January 1857

Lucy Proctor Ellsworth, born 15 March 1800, died 27 February 1884

Horace Parmalee Ellsworth, born 7 August 1832, died 23 June 1911
Son of Thomas Ellsworth

Nancy Ann Moon Ellsworth, born 13 March 1835, died 23 January 1860

Turpee Ellsworth, died – infant
Child of Horace Parmalee Ellsworth

Lucy Ellsworth, died – infant
Child of Horace Parmalee Ellsworth

Hiram Hastings Ellsworth, born 1833, died 1908

Frank Heman Ellsworth, born 29 May 1854, died 19 March 1900
Child of Horace Parmalee Ellsworth

Dora Mellisa (Winchell) Ellsworth, born 30 November 1860, died 3 June 1929
After 1st husband (Frank H Ellsorth death in 1900 Dora remarried one more time to:
 John Burr Nation - shows on Kingsbury Cemetery listing as Dora Nation
John Burr  Nation is buried in Pine Lake Cemetery near his parents (Robert & Julia Nation)

Lucy Ellsworth, born 1861, died 13 January1873
Daughter of Edwin Slater Ellsworth

Henry Proctor Ellsworth, born 4 October 1869, died 29 September 1952
Child of Horace Parmalee Ellsworth

Irene Ellsworth Philpott, born 7 December 1891, died 8 December 1918
Child of Henry Proctor Ellsworth

Helen Ellsworth, born 20 November 1893, died 30 December 1962
Child of Henry Proctor Ellsworth

Evans Family Buried in Kingsbury Cemetery

John Evans, born 1790, died 1871

Sarah Evans, born 1792, died 1879

Melissa Evans Winchell, born 19 September 1823, died 24 July 1873
Child of John Evans

Eunice Evans Barney, born 23 June 1821, died 23 April 1898
Child of John Evans

Cornelia Evans Palmer, born 7 May 1826, died 16 December 1896
Child of John Evans

Harriet Evans Garrard, born 11 August 1833, died 12 May 1904
Child of John Evans

Dora Winchell Ellsworth, born 30 November 1860, died 3 June 1929
Child of Melissa Evans Winchell

Ida Garrard Lybrook, born 1856, died 25 December 1928
Child of Harriet Evans Garrard

John Evans Garrard, born 1861, died January 1924
Child of Harriet Evans Garrard

Ernest Garrard, born 21 December 1892, died 6 September 1894
Child of John Evans Garrard

Evans John Garrard, born 29 August 1902, died 1945
Child of John Evans Garrard

Other Winchells……….Kingsbury Cemetery

John Winchell, born Owego, N. Y., died 21 December 1837
Served War of 1812

Amy Barney Winchell, born 1780, died 7 September 1844

Mary Ann McEnterfer Winchell, born ?, died 12 March 1877

Benson C. Winchell, born November 1835, died ?

Ralph Winchell, born 1844, died in army age 19

Amy Winchell, born ?, died age 4

John Wesley Winchell, born 18 October 1833, died 15 January 1834
Child of Mary Ann and Lyman Patterson Winchell

Winchell Addition to Kingsbury Cemetery

Marie B. Giltner Winchell, born 6 October 1785, died 29 October 1847
Wife of Nathaniel Winchell

Amy Winchell, born 13 October 1841, died 4 January 1843
Child of Mary Ann and Lyman Patterson Winchell

Lydia H. Winchell, niece, born 26 October 1818, died 30 May 1891
m1. John F. McEntefer 28 Jan 1840 (1810 - 1849)
m2. David Barney 01 Apr 1855 - (26 July 1798 to 28 Aug 1855) - son David Barney born after his death 26 Jan 1856
m3. Erastus Niece 19 Sep 1861 - family trees show Erastus died 1870
(Children of Lydia & John McEnterfer buried here were)
Burt Smith McEnterfer, born 19 May 1842, died 1851
Ruth McEnterfer, born 14 February 1847, died 1851
John McEnterfer, born 11 May 1849, died 1852

Paul John McEnterfer, born 3 November 1884, died 22 November 1962

Lawrence Marshman Northam, born 6 August 1895, died 22 January 1968
Son of Sarah Winchell Northam

Originally Winchell Cemetery was located off of Union Center Road in Washington Township ( Loc. in S.W. 1/4 of Sec. 3, Twp. 35 N.R. 2 W. )   Winchell Cemetery was surveyed on March 26 to 29, 1941 and plat of graves marked and unmarked were drawn April 3 through 5th, 1941.

Reference: Plat Map of Winchell Cemetery, Washington twp before graves were relocated.
Presented below are the names from the map and those stones that were identifiable in 1941 when the map was done. As far as this author is aware, all marked and unmarked graves were moved to Kingsbury in 1941 unless families of deceased requested a different cemetery for a particular grave to be reinterred at.

Additional Burials sent in by Gloria Arndt at prairiefarm@csinet.net
Collings, Benjamin F.,
Collings, D. B.,
Collings, Daniel B., (same as the previous?)
Collings, Electa Owen,
Collings, Josephine.

Howser - Daily Herald, Friday, March 15, 1895 - The infant child of Mr & Mrs Jake Howser was buried at Winchell's Cemetery Tuesday.

Waxham, Walter A. - La Porte Herald, April 4, 1863 - The friends of Walter A. Waxham of Co. B, 73d Reg. Ind. Vol. who died in Nashville, Tenn, Dec 6th 1862 are requested to attend the funeral service to be delivered at Kingsbury, Sunday April 12th, 1863 at 11 o'clock AM by Rev. Abram Smith.

  Regarding the earlier memo about Walter Waxham -- I found him listed in Packard's History under "Waxwin", Walter A., Died at Nashville, Tenn., Dec 7, '62. Another Civil War Death follows.
  Calvin Zener was aged 26 and living with his parents & siblings in Clinton Twp in 1860. Packard's History lists him in the Fifteenth Regiment, Company "G". as a Corporal. However, Packard does not show that he died. He's listed as Discharged, 1864. Old Judge Packard needed a facts checker and also a name spell-check!!! LaPorte Herald, Saturday, April 25, 1863 - Letter from Murfreesboro, Tenn., Jan 19, 1863: Mr. Zener: Dear Sir: As commander of the company of which your son Calvin R. Zener was a member at the time of his death, it becomes my painful duty to inform you of the manner of his death and to give you the last words of your gallant son. Calvin passed unharmed through the more than ordinarily bloody battle of Wednesday, December 31, 1862, with the coolness of a veteran and the true courage of a Patriot and a Christian, and during the terrible engagement of Friday, Jan 2d, he was struck by a 6 pound cannon ball in the abdomen which caused his death in a short time. As soon as duty would admit of my leaving my command for a moment I hastened to his side to receive any message he might wish to send you or any of his many friends. He conversed rationally with me for the time. He wished me to tell you that he died at his post as a true soldier loves to die. Said he, "tell my parents that I died loving them; tell my brothers and sisters that in my prayers I have not forgotten them; tell them all that I have hopes of meeting them beyond the grave; tell them that I am happy, so happy;" and as he spoke the words "happy," he began singing one of those old hymns he had so often sung with his young friends when assembled around the alter to worship the Supreme Being. At this moment duty called me to my command. I shook hands with him and left him singing praises to the Most High. I sympathize deeply with you in your great loss. I know your son's great worth as a soldier, respectful to his superiors, generous and kind to his equals in battle, courageous and cool as though (--?--) amid the roar of cannon and din of battle. We all sympathize with you in your bereavement, but the loss is not all yours. You have lost a dutiful son, the church a devout member, our country a patriot and a soldier, and we have lost a comrade in arms whom all loved and respected. A case containing three ambrotypes was handed to me by Calvin which he wished sent home. I send by the same mail. I am sir, very respectfully yours, Lieut. Wm. L. Cole
Burial location at this time to be determined.