FULTON COUNTY IND. CEMETERIES Rochester I.O.O.F. Updated Edition TOMBAUGH HOUSE 700 Pontiac Street Rochester, Indiana 46975 Made in the United States of America.
I.O.O.F. CEMETERY Located on the north side of West 3rd Street, Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana.
Rows run north and south; rows are numbered from east to west; stones read from south to north.
Readings made in 1974 and 1991.
SECTION 1
The Rochester Mausoleum
I.O.O.F. Cemetery The Rochester Mausoleum Company was organized and incorporated on April 8, 1911, for the purpose of constructing and maintaining community mausoleums at and in the vicinity of the City of Rochester, Indiana.
The Rochester Mausoleum was constructed and crypts sold, and bodies accepted for burial therein.
On October 13, 1970, a case was filed in the Fulton Circuit Court, alleging that for more than ten years last past, there had been no elected, qualified and acting officers or directors of the company. Also that for more than 20 years last past, the First National Bank of Rochester, Rochester, Indiana, had acted as trustee of the funds of said company. Also, that the said mausoleum was in a state of extreme disrepair, and constituted a public nuisance and should be removed, requiring the reinterment of all bodies presently interred therein.
In April, 1971, 124 bodies were removed from the Rochester Mausoleum, and reinterred in a mass burial site, along the east side of the I.O.O.F. Cemetery. Only three of these have dates. | |
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