Tippecanoe County Indiana Funeral Homes

 

FUNERAL HOMES OF TIPPECANOE 

COUNTY INDIANA

Below is a list of Coffin makers, Undertaking & Funeral Home businesses in Tippecanoe County.  Several began as early furniture makers who made coffins and later became Undertakers.A few became today's Funeral Directors and Funeral homes businesses. 

I'm continually working this project, and I wanted to show what records still exist today.  I hope it helps you in your family search.  Along with the Undertakers there are a few people who I see repeated in estates, trustee burials and poor farm receipts.  Some are by location and some are listed by dates.

Sources used from Alameda McCullough Research Library (AMRL) There are a few collections from old businesses: Folckemer, Bradshaw, Soller-Harrington, Vianco and Zahn -Schneider. (see dates below)  I used advertising from business letterheads and newspapers. Others are from wills & estate files located in this library.

Other Sources.  Early Newspapers. City Directories for Lafayette and Tippecanoe County (Ancestry & Google) and original Will/Estate receipts.

Tippecanoe County Biographical & Portrait Album (1888) and Past and Present of Tippecanoe County, Indiana (1909) for biographies. (Google books & Archive.org)

Links to some people are on Findagrave.com   Other information links are at the bottom of this page.

My new database in 2019.   The Grave diggers.

 

Funeral Home, pages, names some bios linked.

Known Address

City located

 Township Operations times Other business Information / moved or merged.  Records exist or advertisements
                                                  EARLY  LAFAYETTE, INDIANA
Matthew Patton coffinmaker    Fairfield 1831 McNaughton 1st Laf. Cem. coffin receipt
Henry Beeman coffinmaker     1835 add Laf..Free Press  
David Smalley coffinmaker     1836 estate receipt 1836  
             
Scudder, M. S. Cabinetmaker & Undertaker & coffinmaker 110 Main St. &  between 5th and 6th St. , Indiana Fairfield 1839-1888 1851 add   Lettehead 1886 receipt
Richard Smith Cabinet Maker-coffin maker coffinmaker     1841 estate receipt 1841  
Early Carpenters , Cabinet makers and woodworkers see  1839 add. 1839 1839 Advertisement for woodworkers in Lafayette 
Hugh J. Mulford Undertaker 1845- Advertisment  
Daniel Rhiem Main & Market St 1847- Dan Rhiem cabinet maker add 1848 New Hearse
Cabinet Makers Union         H.J. Mulford , Theodore F. Creager, Herman Kessen, John Bernard Scheele,  John Soller & Henry Berlemann 32 Main  and 197 Main St. Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1849-1888 1885-City Directory listing 1849 

1875 Dec

                                   Many more followed.  Below is listed in more of a location order
Soller-Kessen _ Lower Main St Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1865-1895 Later became Templeton SP in 1925  
Soller John   (one of the organizers of the Cabinet Makers Union, furniture builders and Undertakers) 9th cor Heath Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1875-76 Listing in City Directory page 150  
Geo Seeger   Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1883-   1883 receipt
Soller-Kessen-Seeger           1895 receipt
Soller-Seeger Co. Undertakers

William F. Seeger

 32 Main St. Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1899-1906   1898 add
Soller & Harrington

Daniel J. Harrington & Timothy Harrington

 Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1906-1928 Harrington became Soller-Harrington AMRL some books [1900-1918]
John.Soller & Sons
 (John T. Soller)		 Lafayette, Indiana 1923-1931 Moved to Bohrer Homestead in 1929
Soller-Baker

(see Dayton at the bottom)

 ___4th Street

400 Twyckenham

1184 Sagamore Parkway

 Lafayette, Indiana

West. Lafayette

 Fairfield 1933 to present 

 

 formerly  John T Soller & Sons; Otto Baker is s/o Alvin Baker of Dayton

1971 adding the West Lafayette Chapel. 

 At funeral home in 1918--

1933 CD
                                                   LAFAYETTE, INDIANA
Scudder, Caleb Cabinetmaker 110 Main St. Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1872- 1872 reciept 1880 reciept
Thomas W. Demerly lived in Lafayette for many years as an Undertaker.  Moved to Indy. 65 Elizabeth Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1885-1886  Assistant Undertaker for CR Scudder City Dir 1885-1886
                                                   LAFAYETTE, INDIANA
Joseph Sheern Furniture 
Moved to Texas		 Main & 2nd. Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1850 Add 1867 Coffin add Coffin receipt_ 1874
Creager & Folckemer Main & 2nd Street Lafayette, Indiana 1876 Receipt 1876 Dec 5 1875

1877 newspaper add, new hurst
William Folckemer Sr. 

 A small bio

Furniture & Undertaker

 17 & 19 Main.  &

55 N. Sixth

 Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1878-1916 Cabinet maker ca 1860's AMRL some books [1879-1920]
Folckemer & Son (Charles V) 1901 Main Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1893-1935 Billing for coaches 1897

receipt 189?

 City D.1911
Vianco, Edward J. 822 Main St.  Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1920-1945 purchased Folckemer  City Dir 1929 AMRL some books [1920-1945]
Joseph F. Frank & Sons 605 & 659 Main Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1898-1927 Purchased by Coffing & LaGesse 1898
T.T. Coffing & J.J. LaGesse Undertakers  659 Main St. Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1928-- took over Frank & Sons
Snyder & Lehnen 1630-32 Main St. Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield   1879-1880 ?
Homer Streets, Undertaker Galt House Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1885-1888 City Directory 
                                                   LAFAYETTE, INDIANA
Thompson & Bradshaw 654 Main Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1901-1903 Thompson in Brookston,IN
Bradshaw & Schlessleman 654 Main Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1903-1912 1903 reciept AMRL  Record Books [1903-1967]
Charles H.Bradshaw

Funeral Director & Embalmer

 709-711 Main  Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1913-1928  1925 add in Centenial book

1955 Ambulance service.

 AMRL  Record Books [1903-1967]
Charles H. Bradshaw Co., Inc. 721 North St. Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1929-1967 Purchased by Landis-Loy AMRL  Record Books [1903-1967]

City Dir 1929

1933 CD
                                                  3RD STREET,  LAFAYETTE, INDIANA
P.H. Kennelly Furniture maker and 1877 Undertaker 45 S. 3rd Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1874-1877 1877 newspaper add 
Lancaster & Connell, 
Henry H. Lancaster
Richard Connell		 48 S. 3rd. Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1887-1899 Henry H. Lancaster

? Connell
Evans-Scheffee Undertaking Co. 22 N. 3rd St. Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1901-1908 Card  Feb 2 1902
Herman H. Evans   Bio 22 N. 3rd St. Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1909-1926-7 Purchased Clark's in Battleground  
Herbert L. Murphy   (see 1104 Columbia St below) 525 N. 6th St. Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1931-1966 1933 CD & 1936 add add
Scheffee & Harness
John Scheffee
 824 N. 6th St. Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1915-1916
                                                  9TH STREET,  LAFAYETTE, INDIANA
Hippensteel & Funkhouser  822 N. 9th St Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield ca 1935 Purchased by Hippensteel
Hippensteel Funeral Home 822 N. 9th St Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1936-to  present
                                                  FERRY STREET, LAFAYETTE, INDIANA
Kendall & Mullaney 54 Ferry St. Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1894-1897
Edward J. Broderick 54 Ferry St. Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1898-1899
                                                   COLUMBIA STREET, LAFAYETTE, INDIANA
Templeton Funeral Home

[Samuel P. prop]

 635 Columbia 1918-1945 1926 S.P Templeton Mortician City Dir 1929

1933 CD
Templeton - Jackson 1937-1945
Templeton - Duesler Co. 635 Columbia Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1920-1945 Bought out Evans ca 1918
Pope Funeral Home 635 Columbia Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield  1945- Dan Rhiem cabinet maker. Formerly Templeton
Templeton & Pope 635 Columbia 1947-1948 took over Coffing & LaGresse
                                                  FERRY TO COLUMBIA STREET,  LAFAYETTE, INDIANA
Edward J. Vianco Funeral Home 635 Ferry St ? 1920-1947 took over Folckemer at 2nd & Main in 1920.  City Dir 1929  1933 CD AMRL some books [1950-1982]
Vianco - Zahn - Schneider 643 Ferry St Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1948-1971 1927 billing 
Zhan - Schneider Funeral Home 643 Ferry St Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1950?-1982 AMRL  Record Books [1950-1982]
Rogers & Smith

 

 

 644 Ferry St. &  914 Columbia [1933] Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1925-1963 Add 1925

City Dir 1929      

 partner in Earl C. Rogers and  J.Frank Smith funeral home. moved to 914 Columbia in 1925; see Fisher-Loy; 1937 Rogers and Henderson, then 1950 Rogers and Myers, then ca. 1964. Fisher

Records are in Fisher. See link above.
Rogers & Henderson 914 Columbia  1937- Moved to 914 Columbia in 1924; see Fisher-Loy; 1937 Rogers and Henderson Callahan permit 1944
Rogers - Myers Inc. Funeral Directors 914 Columbia Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1950-1963 preceded by Rogers and Smith; followed by Eikenberry, 1963 add
Richard L.Eickenberry 914 Columbia Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1963- Formerly Rogers & Meyer, purchased by Landis-Loy.
Landis & Loy Mortuary Inc. 914 Columbia St. Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1966 founded? Took over Rogers-Meyers and Eikenberry. Now Landis Loy
Fisher-Loy Funeral Chapel 914 Columbia St. Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield present 2009 Building was home of John and Helen Gougar, built  in 1896. Purchased at death of John Gougar in 1925 and converted into funeral home by Earl Rogers and Frank Smith; one was in Stockwell, Indiana 1999 -2012 Fisher

Records are in Fisher. See link above.

 
Fisher Funeral Home 914 Columbia St. Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield present 2013  

Records are in the Funeral Home.
     
                                            COLUMBIA STREET, LAFAYETTE, INDIANA
Murphy-Hahn

Herbert L. Murphy &
Gary Hahn

 1104 Columbia St Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1966- Jan 22 1966  
Murphy - Hahn- Zahn 1104 Columbia St Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield founded  1972
Hahn Funeral Home 1104 Columbia St Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield Formerly Murphy-Hahn
Gary Hahn Funeral Director 1104 Columbia St Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield
Hahn - Groeber Funeral Home 1104 Columbia St Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield      ---  2009
                                                         OTHERS IN THE  LAFAYETTE, AREA
                  Possible funeral directors that need verified
J.H. Evans 1312 Underwood   Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield 1933 Vaults Cement Funeral Vaults 1947
Ward, L. L.   ?? 
Edward W. Frank, Funeral Director Lafayette, Indiana Fairfield
Newman, Mrs. Frank  ? 1898  Embalmer in telephone dir.
                                                  BATTLEGROUND 
William Snider  Harrisonville BattleGround Indiana Tippecanoe Township 1855 Funeral receipt April 1855  
West, Marcus A. Funeral Director Battleground, Indiana Tippecanoe township 1926 -  1942 City Dir 1929
Lester Clark &
E. Felton Clark 		   Battleground, Indiana Tippecanoe township ? 1926-1931 Cabinet maker ca. 1926, sold to H.H. Evans. records destroyed
Grimm Funeral Home Battleground, Indiana 1947- ?
Melvin Jackson Funeral Home 206 Railroad St. Battleground, Indiana   1944 -1979 His obituary  
                                                  CLARKS HILL
Roy S Milligan Undertaking & Embalming   Clarks Hill, Indiana Lauramie township 1898-1931 City Dir 1929
                                                   DAYTON, INDIANA
Robert Baker

Early Cabinet Maker

 740 Walnut St.  Dayton, Indiana Sheffield 1847-1885
 		 Early Cabinet maker and UB minister, funerals & one of first embalmers in Indiana from Sheffield township in Tippecanoe County.  (1872 rect) AMRL  1 or 2 sheets 

[1847-1852]
Jas. H. Readey     ? 1837 receipt for Thom J. Toole  
Peter Lupton     Sheffield 1849 Mrs. Puff receipt to trustee  
Alvin C. Baker.  Bio 730 Walnut St. Dayton, Indiana Sheffield 1885-1920 Took over from his father, Robert
Dwight R. Baker 730 Walnut St. Dayton, Indiana Sheffield 1920-1965   Took over from his father, Alvin; widow Wilma sold to Soller-Baker City Dir 1929
Soller-Baker Dayton Chapel 730 Walnut St. Dayton, Indiana Sheffield 1980 to 2009 Wilma Hill Baker, widow of Dwight, sold to Soller-Baker in 1980.
             
 
                                                  GRANVILLE & WEST POINT AREA (Wayne Township)
Peter F. Bell coffinmaker     1842 Rect. for Rebecca Earl, Sherry Cemetery  
PA Franklin coffinmaker       Coffin for John Coran 1834  
                                                 MONTMORENCI (Shelby Township) 
     
                                                  PERRY TOWNSHIP AREA
James Redinbo   Perry Twp 1846 B. Campbell
                                                   SUGAR GROVE AREA 
Alphonse Berlincourt coffinmaker   Jackson township 1858 receipt
                                                 OTTERBEIN (Shelby Township)
Shumaker Funeral Home   Otterbein, Indiana Shelby township
Vogel Otterbein, Indiana Shelby township
                                                 STOCKWELL (Lauramie Township)
Dickerson Funeral Home 9409 Yorktown St. Stockwell, Indiana Lauramie township Landis-Loy purchased in 1977 Records are in Fisher.
    Clarks Hill Lauramie      
                                                 ROMNEY  (Randolph Township)
S. V. Hedrick 1879 trustee burial request
Henrich Burkhardt coffinmaker/wagonmaker     1887 coffin recipt for Henry Cox 1887  
FOUNTAIN COUNTY to the West.            
Coffing & Robinson Attica ca  1927
             

     

 

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Funeral directors are involved in everything from preserving and preparing the body for the funeral to serving families in making funeral arrangements. All of these duties take place within the funeral home. After obtaining the proper education to serve as a funeral director, a person can work at an existing firm or open his own. To open your own funeral home, you and the facility must meet several state and federal requirements.

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