Cemeteries of St. Joseph Township

Kuckuck Cemetery

Kukuck Cemetery - Kuckuck Homestead Cemetery
Bullerman Cemetery
St. Stephens Cemetery

1935 Kuckuck Cemetery off Trier Road

At least seven tombstones are visible in this Kuckuck Cemetery, Trier Road, Allen County, IN in 1935 photo in the Allen County Public Library Digital Collections at the Allen County Public Library. There are other non-cemetery Kuckuck search results.
This photo was posted and discussed March 24, 2024 on True Fort Wayne Indiana History on Facebook .

The Mary Penrose Wayne Chapter NSDAR Allen County Indiana Cemetery Project Kukuck-Bullerman Cemetery webpage states: This cemetery no longer exists. The cemetery was located between Reed Road and Maplecrest, off Trier and Stellhorn Roads. The cemetery was on the Bullerman farm. Cemetery was transferred to Saint Peter Lutheran. Listed below are transcriptions from 1932 DAR listings and 1980's ACGSI listings. Since the cemetery was moved there are no stones and therefore no photos.

Mrs. Dorothea Kuckuck newspaper obituary shows she was buried at the Kuckuck Homestead Cemetery, but her tombstone is now found in the Old Concordia Cemetery.

Contact Allen INGenWeb if you know more about the cemetery, where St. Stephens comes from, or when the cemetery was moved.

The NSDAR Kukuck-Bullerman Cemetery webpage shows only 2 burials were known:

Ascendorff Eleanor Oct. 30, 1879 69y (ACGSI listing.)
Kukuck L Geb 14 Jan 1819 Gest 14 Dez 1887 alter 68 Jahre & 11 ms.
-----Aber ich weiss dass mein erloser lebt und er wird mich hernach aus der erde auferwecken. Hiob. 19K 25v.
-----(1932 DAR listing.)

Kukuck was in the German language. Kukuck L Geb 14 Jan 1819 Gest 14 Dez 1887 alter 68 Jahre & 11 ms. -----Aber ich weiss dass mein erloser lebt und er wird mich hernach aus der erde auferwecken. Hiob. 19K 25v. -----(1932 DAR listing.) Reverso translates this as: But I know that my life lives more freely and he will raise me from the earth Job.

 

The NSDAR Allen County Indiana Cemetery Project Master Name Index lists:
Mengerson Justine Marie Kukkuck 22 Sept 1888 Aged 76 Y 4 M 20 D Mother tombstone, Old St. Peter's [ obelisk tombstone is similar to the tallest stone in the ACPL photo ]
Kuckkuck Dorathea, Old Concordia, Section G, Adams Twp, 1905 tombstone
Kuckuck Adele M., Lindenwood, Section N, Wayne Twp, tombstone
Kuckuck Bertha C., Lindenwood, Section N, Wayne Twp, 1924 tombstone
Kuckuck Charles A., Lindenwood, Section N, Wayne Twp, 1944 tombstone
Kuckuck Christina Anna, Lindenwood, Section N, Wayne Twp, 1957 tombstone
Kuckuck Fred O., Lindenwood, Section N, Wayne Twp, 1956 tombstone
Kukuck L., Bullerman, Saint Joseph Twp
( Mrs. Dorothea Kuckuck obituary mentions her husband Louis Kuckuck died around 1887 )
Kukuk Caroline, Catholic, Section B Did not find, Adams Twp, 1904 FWSentinel obituary
Kukuk Hubert, Lindenwood, Section 4, Wayne Twp, tombstone
Kukuk Jas Jerome, Catholic, Section B Did not find, Adams Twp
Kukuk Joseph, Catholic, Section B Did not find, Adams Twp, FWNews obituary, FWSentinel obituary

1905 - Mrs. Dorothea Kuckuck - Kuckuck Homestead - 1850s cholera plague

Article from Aug 17, 1905 Fort Wayne Weekly Journal-Gazette (Fort Wayne, Indiana) Kuckuck cemetery, Kuckuck, Kuckuck homestead, 1850s cholera plague

Notice in this Mrs. Dorothea Kuckuck obituary, born January 14, 1831 in Germany, died Sunday, August 13, 1905 was buried in the cemetery on the Kuckuck Homestead in 1905. But her Dorathea Kuckuck tombstone is now in the Old Concordia Cemetery. Is listed as Dorathea Kuckkuck at Find A GraveIt also mentions a first husband Stephen Pierson who died more than 50 years earlier in the cholera plaque. She married a second husband Louis who died around 1887, and lost three children in infancy. Stephen Pierson newspaper date 25 Aug 1849 is listed on the Cholera and Other Deaths, Jul.-Sep. 1849, Fort Wayne, Indiana page on the Allen County Genealogical Society of Indiana website.

 

An April 23, 2024 email states: I first became aware of it going through the original abstract for my house and mentioning names of the original homesteaders. There seems to be some question about Dorothea Kuckuck the wife of the original homesteader. It appears that she either requested or planned to be buried in that small family plot upon her death. But for whatever reason her nephew Louis Heidbrink (who she left the property to and who happens to be buried next to her at the old Concordia cemetery) [ Louis Christian Heidbrink on Find A Grave ], paid for her burial and plot at said cemetery when she died. I can say this with certainty because I saw the records at the new Concordia cemeteries office. ... The little tiny cemetery was a stone's throw from their house.

 

Mrs. Dorothea Kuckuck had three more published newpaper obituaries:

  1. 1905 The Deaths - Mrs. Dorothea Kuckuck - Kuckuck homestead in the Fort Wayne Daily News, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Monday, Aug 14, 1905, Page 5
  2. 1905 - Mrs. Dorothea Kuckuck - buried Kuckuck Homestead in the The Fort Wayne News, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Monday, Aug 14, 1905, Page 5
  3. 1905 - Kuckuck - Mrs. Dorothea Kuckuck - burial Kuckuck homestead cemetery in the The Fort Wayne Sentinel,Fort Wayne, Indiana, Monday, Augusst 14, 1905, Page 2

Google map shows Bullerman Park Forest the area was formerly the Bullerman farm.

Remains from St. Stephens Cemetery 1972

Photo of a tombstone labled Remains from St. Stephens Cemetery 1972 on the NSDAR New Saint Peter Lutheran Cemetery page and L. Kuckuk 14 Jan 1819 to 14 Dec 1887 on Find A Grave with the caption: Remains were moved & reinterred in a common grave at St. Peter's Lutheran New Cemetery located a couple of miles southwest of the original cemetery. [ the New Saint Peters Lutheran Cemetery is southeast of the Bullerman Farm locaton. ]

Contact Allen INGenWeb if you know more about when and where St. Stephens comes from.

Aerial Maps


1974 USGS map showing Kukuck Cemetery location

The Kukuck Cemetery marked Cem is near a green triangle wooded area south of the 809 below Stellhorn Road, east of Reed Road, north of St. Charles Borromeo School and Catholic Church on Trier Road, west of Meyers Road now named Maplecrest Road. shown on this 1963 US Department of the Interior Geological Survey Fort Wayne East Quadrangle map, photorevised 1972, stamped Mar 07, 1974, in the middle of the Eastern half of the Northwest Quarter of Section 28

Until around 1970, there was a wooded lot of about one acre in what is now Park Forest subdivsion just west of the former Park Forest Swim Club. The cemetery was in the southern part of the trees. There were around a dozen stones including a rather prominent obelisk.

According to topographical maps on the Historic Aerials website, the cemetery was located on what’s now the lot for the house at 5411 Hewitt Lane, which, according to Zillow, was built in 1970. The 1974 topo still shows the cemetery, but that’s clearly an error, as the 1973 aerial imagery shows the house. So the cemetery was likely moved in 1969 or early 1970.

Information from a February 21, 2024 multiple email discussion with Douglas Lambert.

 

Allen County Assessors Viewer iMap [ see our Aerial Maps page ]

1938 Kuckuck Cemetery area

1938 aerial view of the Bullerman Park Forest Area. Blue green lines are about where St. Charles Catholic Borromeo Church/School will be at the corner of Reed and Trier Roads. The wooded Kuckuck Cemetery area is a dark triangle shape in the center right area.

1938 Kuckuck Cemetery area

1972 aerial view of the Bullerman Park Forest Area. Blue green lines are where St. Charles Catholic Borromeo Church/School is located at the corner of Reed and Trier Roads. The wooded Kuckuck Cemetery area is a dark triangle shape in the center right area north of Hewitt Lane at the Dial Drive cul-de-sac.

 

Neighborhood Resource Center map [ see our Neighborhoods page ]

Screenshot from the Interactive subdivision locator map

Screenshot from the Interactive subdivision locator map at the Neighborhood Resource Center of the Allen County Recorder's Office.

Screenshot from the Interactive subdivision locator map

Screenshot closeup from the Interactive subdivision locator map at the Neighborhood Resource Center of the Allen County Recorder's Office.

Bullerman Park Forest Section VII (710018470) recorded 9/28/1971

From the 1963 US Department of the Interior Geological Survey Fort Wayne East Quadrangle map it appears the former Kuckuck Cemetery location is now the Bullerman Park Forest Section VII (710018470) recorded 9/28/1971 with the cemetery on lots now around the Dial Drive cul-de-sac area north of Hewitt Lane.

 

Google Maps

Aerial View from Google Maps shows this area as Bullerman Park Forest.

Aerial View shows the former Park Forest Swim Club at the East end of Hewitt Lane.

Until around 1970, there was a wooded lot of about one acre in what is now Park Forest subdivsion just west of the former Park Forest Swim Club. The cemetery was in the southern part of the trees. There were around a dozen stones including a rather prominent obelisk.

November 14, 2023 comment to a discussion of a photo of a Manth stone in Maplewood Park during street and sewer reconstruction posted on True Fort Wayne Indiana History on Facebook.

It mentions old-timers recalling several small family cemeteries in the area prior to development of the family farms into subdivisions in the 1960s. A possible cemetery was on Goeglein Road between Stellhorn and Trier, was an empty lot for years never built on with no remaining tombstones (at least above-ground) with the usual cemetery plants of the previous century (like yuccas and day lilies). ... the intersection of Stellhorn and Maplecrest used to be called Maplewood Corners when Maplecrest was a dirt road many moons ago! I still remember the green highway sign!

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