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Piel Cemetery

GSMC #WR109

Warren Township, Marion County, Indiana

Read by Mrs. R. Griffin, 1941

Transcribed by Dave Wright from GSMC Library records

 

This cemetery is on Raymond St. ¼ mile east of Fort Road.  It has a fence around it and one lone pine tree in the center.  The stones are all in German and stacked against a tree. 

Halloween boys carried some of the stones away a few years ago.

 

 

Mrs. Fred Teutenberg lives nearby, and is a descendant of the Piel family.  She said there were four adults buried there. 

 

Bade, ______              Her uncle

Piel, _______               Her aunt

Piel, Frederick              Died 1879?      Her grandfather            The stone is still standing but

                                                inscriptions are partly obliterated.

Piel, ________ Frederick’s wife           Not named by informant           Has no stone

 

 

Seven or eight babies or small children were also buried there before Mrs. Teutenberg’s birth:

 

Shackel, ______          Baby

Naul, ________           about 1865

 

Others not named.  No Bible records were obtainable on these burials.

 

                                                Mrs. Ransom Griffin

                                                5858 Central Ave.

                                                Indianapolis

 

 

 


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