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./ . . • ~ NOTES 1 . St . Joseph County Deed Book L: 140 (Sept . 14, 1846) . 2 . The land purchased by Joseph Rohrer was the S.E. 1/4 of Section 25, Township 3, Range East . St . Joseph County Deed Index 1 : 390 (May 13 , 1833) . 3 . The "kind of malady, " the illness that decimated the family, is mentioned in Mary (May) Rohrer's obituary in: St . Joseph Valley Register (Indiana) : 1-5-1860(obit . ) . Epidemic disease was common in St . Joseph County in the early years as is typical in any frontier community. The year 1838 saw an outbreak of malaria; typhoid and cholera were also not unheard of before proper sanitation was practiced and water systems were developed. Local disease and epidemic, however poorly understood, is discussed in: . History of St . Joseph County, Indiana (Chicago: Charles C. Chapman and ' Co. , 1880) : 397-407 . Mary (Showers) Rohrer received the farm from her husband's estate in November, 1845 : Abstract of Wills, Vol . 2-3 : 1830-1870 (South Bend: 1968) : 16. 4 Grave marker data is from Toni Cook, Rohrer Cemetery (n.p. ;n.d. , c. 1990) . Ms . Cook compiled this data from her "corrected" inventory of existing grave markers in April , 1990 . The cemetery was also inventoried in 1979 by Jeanne Everett . Ms. Cook has also consulted D.A.R. records, county death records, the Graves Registration. Project (W.P.A. , 1938) and newspaper obituaries in compiling her data. The breakdown of the seventy-six known burials by decade is: 1840 's : eleven (14%) ; 1850 's : eight (11%) ; 1860 ' s : twenty-one (28%) ; 1870 's : twelve (16%) ; 1880 ' s : seven (9%) ; 1890 's : three (4%) ; Twentieth century: five (7%) ; Dates unknown: nine (12%) . 5. Deed Book 76: 83 (March 8, 1882; recorded in 1887) . St . Joseph County Miscellaneous Record Book C: 175 . Prudence Groff Michael has provided a brief description of the cemetery's history in "Notes of Interest on Rohrer Cemetery" in South Bend Genealogical Society Quarterly 1:1 (Spring, 1976) . 6. Veterans Graves Registration Project : W. P.A. Vol . 4 (n.p. : Sept . , 1938) : leaves not numbered, 15 pages from end of book. The first record of the supposed Civil War veterans can be found on microfilm: (Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah--Project #IND 07120 , Roll #48 , Item #30) , Locality: St . Joseph County Historical Society Museum, South Bend, In. : Veterans Burials-Rohrer Cemetery. 7 . John B. Stoll , ed. "An account of St. Joseph County From Its Organization, " in Logan Esarey, History of Indiana From Its Exploration to 1922 Vol . III (Dayton: Dayton Historical Publishing, 1923) : 41 . 8 . History of St . Joseph County: 611 , 663 . , An Illustrated Historical Atlas of St . Joseph County, Indiana (Chicago: Higgins Belden and Co. , 1875) 32 . 9 . . Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs of Elkhart and St . Joseph Counties , Indiana (Chicago: Goodspeed Brothers , 1893) , 332-336.