The County Line Cemetery is located on the north side of the DeKalb — Steuben County Line, also known as State Road 4. It is 2 miles west of Ashley, Indiana, in Salem Township, Section 35, Steuben County Indiana.
This transcription was taken in 1999 by Paul Reinoehl and self-published by him. It contains two separate listings, the first in order of the 287 headstones enumerated, the second in alphabetical order.
Introduction
This is an old cemetery with burials dating back to 1846. It contains 1 acre and the land came from two farms. Jacob Krum donated the first 1/2 acre to the east side for public burial purposes. The west 1/2 acre came from the John Zimmerman farm. I can remember of some burials in this cemetery, but for several years it is very occasional for a burial in this cemetery. The maintenance for the past several years has been under the jurisdiction of the Salem Township Trustee. This consists mostly of mowing the grass. This cemetery is in a high state of negligence. There are many broken stones, some piled here and there and many are illegible. Had I know it was in such bad condition before I started, I probably would not have attempted this project. I worked on some stones 10 and sometimes 15 minutes trying to determine what was wrote thereon. I persevered because we can preserve on paper that which is being lost forever on stone.
I could not find a plat map or any records for this cemetery, although some surely must have existed. The only information that I could find was at the Angola Public Library. There they had a card file alphabetically filed. I went there for additional information but could not find much beyond what I had gathered. It seems information for this card file was gotten the same way I got mine, but a few years earlier. I found only a little additional information. Sometimes information from this card file did not coincide with my information. When this happened, the question was, did I make a mistake or did the other person make a mistake? I know we both did the best we could, and no one can do a lot of this kind of work and not have some mistakes. Any person who uses these records will need to consider the conditions in which the information was gotten and allow for variances. It should have been done 75 years ago. While I make these statements, also I should say that much or most of the information should be quite accurate and helpful.
Paul Reinoehl