Find A Grave - Tippecanoe County

Arnett, Arett Campbell b. August 21, 1882 d. April 1, 1955
Medical Pioneer. Outstanding physician, Army Reserve officer, aviator and civic leader. Following the example of one of his military affiliates, Dr. William J. Mayo, a co-founder of the Mayo Clinic, he founded Lafayette's renowned Arnett Clinic, the largest multi-specialty physician practice organization in Indiana.
Spring Vale Cemetery, Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA
Plot: Section 8
Battle of Tippecanoe Memorial [memorial]
Concerned about the possible extinction of their race brought on by advancing expansion of white settlers into the midwest, the Shawnee chief Tecumseh and his brother, Tenskwatawa (The Shawnee Prophet) left their native Ohio and, with permission of the Potawatomi and Kickapoo tribes, established Prophet's Town in 1808 to serve as a capital of a great Native American confederacy. Through this union, the Native Americans could successfully defend themselves. Prophet's Town became a training...[Read More]
Cause of death: Casualty of war
Tippecanoe Battlefield Memorial, Battle Ground, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA
Butz, Earl Lauer b. July 3, 1909 d. February 2, 2008
US Presidential Cabinet Member. Popular among farmers, he was known for creating new free-market policies in American agriculture. He took his first federal post, as assistant agriculture secretary under President Dwight Eisenhower, serving 1954 to 1957. In 1971, President Richard Nixon appointed him the 18th US Secretary of Agriculture, serving under Nixon and President Ford until 1976. During his five years in Washington, net farm income more than doubled, farm exports tripled and 60 million...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Tippecanoe Memory Gardens, West Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA
Carroll, William B. b. March 3, 1831 d. September 19, 1863
Civil War Union Army Officer. He served during the Civil War as Colonel and commander of the 10th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He was the first line officer killed at the Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia. (Bio by: Eric Lowman)
Greenbush Cemetery, Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA
DeHart, Richard Patten b. January 1, 1832 d. June 12, 1918
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. Served in the Civil war first as a 1st Lieutenant and Regimental Adjutant for the 46th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. Transferred to the 99th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, he rose to the unit's Lieutenant Colonel before being commissioned as Colonel and commander of the 128th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He was brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteers on March 13, 1865 for "faithful and meritorious services". After the war he became a prominent lawyer and...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Spring Vale Cemetery, Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA
Plot: Section 2, Lot 216
Durgan, George R. d. January 13, 1942
(Bio by: L. A.)
Spring Vale Cemetery, Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA
Plot: sec 15 lot 66
Ewry, Raymond Clarence 'Deac' b. October 14, 1874 d. September 29, 1937
United States Olympian Gold Medalist from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. He earned 10 medals during his Olympic career in the high jump, broad jump and the triple jump competition. (Bio by: L. A.)
Spring Vale Cemetery, Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA
Plot: Ewry family section 23
Healy, Dr. Bernadine b. August 4, 1944 d. August 6, 2011
Medical Pioneer. The first woman to head the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the first physician in charge of the Red Cross, she shall perhaps better remembered for founding the Women's Health Initiative and raising awareness that coronary artery disease is not a men-only phenomenon. Raised in Long Island City, Queens, she graduated from Hunter High School, earned top honors at Vassar College, and in 1970 received her M.D. from Harvard. After training in cardiology Dr. Healy became a...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Tippecanoe Memory Gardens, West Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA
Hoon, Shannon (Richard) b. September 26, 1967 d. October 21, 1995
Musician. Born Richard Shannon Hoon in Lafayette, Indiana, son of Richard and Nel Hoon. He attended McCutcheon High School in Lafayette where he was a noted athlete in football, wrestling, and track and graduated in 1986. In February 1988, Hoon won a position fronting a local band called Styff Kytten. After a year, Hoon left for Los Angeles where, with four other musicians, formed a band calling themselves Blind Melon. In 1991 Blind Melon produced a four song demo and signed a recording...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Cause of death: Drug Overdose
Dayton Cemetery, Dayton, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA
Plot: far north side, in the new section, in the middle, at the very back, near the fence
Kelly Sr., Emmett b. December 9, 1898 d. March 28, 1979
Entertainer. A World famous Circus Clown during the 1930s and 1940s, he best remembered for his sad-faced, silent "Weary Willy" hobo clown, who as the perpetual underdog never gave up, and for his comic act of sweeping the spotlight. Born in Sedan, Kansas (where a museum honors him today), his parents worked for the Missouri-Pacific Railroad, where his father, Thomas Kelly, was part of a railroad crew, and his mother, Mollie, ran a boarding house for the Railroad. About 1905, his parents moved...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Cause of death: Heart attack
Rest Haven Memorial Park, Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA
GPS coordinates: 40.4291992, -86.8587036 (hddd.dddd)
Lambert, Ward 'Piggy' b. May 28, 1888 d. January 20, 1958
Basketball Pioneer, Coach. Purdue University basketball coaching great 1916-17 and 1918-1946. Considered the father of the "big man" and the "fast break" tactics, he compiled a 228-105 Big Ten record, winning titles in 1922, '30, '32, '34, '38 and '40, and sharing them in 1921, '26,'28, '35 and '36. He left basketball in 1955, and died from an embolism three years later at age 69. (Bio by: Scott Wilson)
Grand View Cemetery, West Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA
Plot: sec. A, lot 54
Leslie, Harry Guyer b. August 6, 1878 d. December 10, 1937
In 1903, Harry Leslie was seriously injured in a train wreck carrying the Purdue University football team. 16 people on board were killed. He graduated from Purdue University and received his law degree from Indiana University. He was the Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives in 1925 and 1927. 33rd Governor of Indiana, January 14, 1929-January 9, 1933; delegate to Republican National Convention from Indiana, 1932.
Grand View Cemetery, West Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA
Mace, Daniel b. September 5, 1811 d. July 26, 1867
US Congressman. Elected to represent Indiana's 8th District in the United States House of Representatives, he served from 1851 to 1857. He also served as a Member of the Indiana State House of Representatives in 1836. (Bio by: K)
Greenbush Cemetery, Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA
McCall, Thomas Edward b. May 9, 1916 d. September 19, 1965
World War II Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He served as a Staff Sergeant, Commander of a Machine Gun Section, in the United States Army in Company F, 143d Infantry, 36th Infantry Division. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for action on January 22, 1944 near San Angelo, Italy. His citation reads in part "Displaying outstanding aggressiveness, he ran forward with the weapon on his hip, reaching a point 30 yards from the enemy, where he fired two bursts of fire into the nest, killing or...[Read More] (Bio by: Don Morfe)
Spring Vale Cemetery, Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA
Plot: Section 12, Lot 281
Mollenkopf, Kenneth W. 'Jack' b. 1903 d. December 4, 1975
Member, National Football Foundation Hall of Fame, The US College Football Hall of Fame, Bowling Green State University Athletic Hall of Fame and Purdue University Athletic Hall of Fame. A star in football and baseball at Bowling Green State University, he subsequently won three unofficial state championships as football coach of Toledo (Ohio) Waite HS. He served Purdue as an assistant football coach from 1947-55 and head football coach from 1956-1969. His record of 84-39-9 makes him the school'...[Read More]
Tippecanoe Memory Gardens, West Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA
Orth, Godlove Stein b. April 22, 1817 d. December 16, 1882
US Congressman.
Greenbush Cemetery, Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA
Plot: Section 3, Lot 188
Owen, Abram b. 1769 d. November 7, 1811
United States Army Officer. He was killed at the Battle of Tippecanoe. He served as surveyor of Shelby County in 1796, subsequently a magistrate, and Colonel Commandant of the first militia 18th Regiment of Kentucky. He was also in the legislature in 1798, a member of the state constitutional convention the next year, and state senator in 1810. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Tippecanoe Battlefield Memorial, Battle Ground, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA
Plot: Officers Section
Packard, Jasper b. February 1, 1832 d. December 13, 1899
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General, US Congressman. Born in Austintown, Ohio, he was admitted to the bar in 1861, but enlisted in the Union Army as a Private in the 48th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, at the start of the Civil War. Rising through the ranks to Colonel in command of the 128th Regiment, Indiana Infantry, for meritorious services he was brevetted Brigadier General of US Volunteers on March 13, 1865. After the war, he was elected as a Republican to the Forty-first, Forty-second...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Indiana Soldiers Home Cemetery, West Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA
Pettit, John b. June 24, 1807 d. January 17, 1877
US Congressman, US Senator. An attorney, he was elected as a Democrat to represent Indiana's 8th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1843 to 1849. In 1852 he was elected as a Democratic Senator from Indiana to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator James Whitcomb. He served from 1853 to 1854, and was unsuccessful in his attempt to be reelected for the seat. He served as an Associate Justice of the Indian State...[Read More]
Greenbush Cemetery, Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA
Potawatomi 'Trail of Death' Route Marker [memorial]
Erected by ancestors in 1996, the Potawatomi 'Trail of Death' Route Memorial marks the trail of the of the Potawatomi Indians emigration across the prairies of Indiana to Kansas in 1838. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Tippecanoe Battlefield Memorial, Battle Ground, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA

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