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.
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.
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:
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. ]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
