KUNKEL FAMILY CEMETERY PLOT Adams County, IN 1996 USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by Nola Rains (thunderstruck@parlorcity.com) (c) Copyright 1997, Nola Rains This family burial plot is located about 1 mile north of Decatur, Adams Co., Indiana on U.S. Highway 27. The cemetery is about an eighth of a mile off the highway in a pasture field. There only four stones in the burial plot, which at one time was fenced. The plot is accessible only by permission from the Kunkel family. These stones were copied in 1996 by Nola C. (Schieferstein) Rains. * * * * * Florence E., daughter of William R. and B. A. DORWIN, died Jan. 6, 1852, aged 1 yr. 11 mo. 11 da. Walter J., son of C. & P.C. WINCH, died Aug. 12, 1853, aged 3 yr. 3 mo. 3 da. William O. KUNKEL, son of Samuel and Martha Dorwin Kunkel, died Apr. 1, 1848 aged 1 yr. 1 mo 22 days Theodore Alpheus NAVE, died Nov. 11, 1847, aged 7 mo. 11 da.* *His parents were William A. & Elizabeth Dorwin Nave. It is possible that William A. Nave is also buried in this plot as he died on July 19, 1847, just four months prior to his infant son's death. * * * * * HISTORICAL NOTES: These four children were all cousins. William Dorwin, Phoebe (Dorwin) Winch, Martha (Dorwin) Kunkel, and Elizabeth (Dorwin) Nave were brother & sisters, being children of Calvin Trenton Dorwin & Frances Belle Dickerson. After the death of her husband, Elizabeth Dorwin Nave later married John Pomeroy Porter, and became the mother of three children. One of her sons, Charles Dorwin Porter, married Geneva Grace Stratton. Geneva Grace Stratton Porter is better known as Gene Stratton-Porter, the well-know author of such famous books as "Freckles", "Girl of the Limberlost", "Song of the Cardinal", "Laddie", and "The Harvester", to mention just a few.