The following information concerning the burial of Lavina Cole was provided to Steven R. Shook by J. Timothy Cole on March 2, 2003:
There is only a simple field stone with the following figures crudely chiseled on it - L. Cole 1886. The Boy Scouts keep moving this stone to the side of the cemetery so they can mow it, and I [Tim Cole] keep returning it to one of the unmarked graves since I don't know where she is really buried within this cemetery. She was a sister to Edward P. Cole and was living alone in a small cabin on the property of John C. Cole, her nephew, as reported in the 1880 Census. I think her death was recorded in a Valparaiso newspaper as only a line item in a neighborhood news section, but it was June 19, 1886. She was evidently born in 1820 (from the Census report) in Bronson Township, Huron County, Ohio. Lavina was married December 23, 1861, in Huron County, Ohio, to a W. R. Clark. Any subsequent circumstances concerning this marriage are unknown, only that she arrived a few years later in Porter County, expecting to live with her brother, but his suicide and the turmoil it caused within the family prevented her from achieving that. His son John evidently took care of her after that and until her death. Her husband did not come with her, and she resumed her maiden name -- he may have died, and this may have been her second marriage.
There is only a simple field stone with the following figures crudely chiseled on it - L. Cole 1886. The Boy Scouts keep moving this stone to the side of the cemetery so they can mow it, and I [Tim Cole] keep returning it to one of the unmarked graves since I don't know where she is really buried within this cemetery. She was a sister to Edward P. Cole and was living alone in a small cabin on the property of John C. Cole, her nephew, as reported in the 1880 Census. I think her death was recorded in a Valparaiso newspaper as only a line item in a neighborhood news section, but it was June 19, 1886. She was evidently born in 1820 (from the Census report) in Bronson Township, Huron County, Ohio. Lavina was married December 23, 1861, in Huron County, Ohio, to a W. R. Clark. Any subsequent circumstances concerning this marriage are unknown, only that she arrived a few years later in Porter County, expecting to live with her brother, but his suicide and the turmoil it caused within the family prevented her from achieving that. His son John evidently took care of her after that and until her death. Her husband did not come with her, and she resumed her maiden name -- he may have died, and this may have been her second marriage.
The following information concerning the burial of Lavina Cole was provided to Steven R. Shook by J. Timothy Cole on March 2, 2003:
There is only a simple field stone with the following figures crudely chiseled on it - L. Cole 1886. The Boy Scouts keep moving this stone to the side of the cemetery so they can mow it, and I [Tim Cole] keep returning it to one of the unmarked graves since I don't know where she is really buried within this cemetery. She was a sister to Edward P. Cole and was living alone in a small cabin on the property of John C. Cole, her nephew, as reported in the 1880 Census. I think her death was recorded in a Valparaiso newspaper as only a line item in a neighborhood news section, but it was June 19, 1886. She was evidently born in 1820 (from the Census report) in Bronson Township, Huron County, Ohio. Lavina was married December 23, 1861, in Huron County, Ohio, to a W. R. Clark. Any subsequent circumstances concerning this marriage are unknown, only that she arrived a few years later in Porter County, expecting to live with her brother, but his suicide and the turmoil it caused within the family prevented her from achieving that. His son John evidently took care of her after that and until her death. Her husband did not come with her, and she resumed her maiden name -- he may have died, and this may have been her second marriage.
There is only a simple field stone with the following figures crudely chiseled on it - L. Cole 1886. The Boy Scouts keep moving this stone to the side of the cemetery so they can mow it, and I [Tim Cole] keep returning it to one of the unmarked graves since I don't know where she is really buried within this cemetery. She was a sister to Edward P. Cole and was living alone in a small cabin on the property of John C. Cole, her nephew, as reported in the 1880 Census. I think her death was recorded in a Valparaiso newspaper as only a line item in a neighborhood news section, but it was June 19, 1886. She was evidently born in 1820 (from the Census report) in Bronson Township, Huron County, Ohio. Lavina was married December 23, 1861, in Huron County, Ohio, to a W. R. Clark. Any subsequent circumstances concerning this marriage are unknown, only that she arrived a few years later in Porter County, expecting to live with her brother, but his suicide and the turmoil it caused within the family prevented her from achieving that. His son John evidently took care of her after that and until her death. Her husband did not come with her, and she resumed her maiden name -- he may have died, and this may have been her second marriage.
Inscription
L. COLE
1886
[Crudely inscribed on a field stone.]
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