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Updated on November 11, 2012 with a comment from Ann Fullmer-Brown: President - Smith Chapel Historical Commission. The Truitt Cemetery burials were moved to
Smith Chapel in the 1950's when Varners bought the property that this cemetery stood on. Most of these can be located in the West Side of Smith Chapel Cemetery near the second drive.April 18th, 2007 . The first reading listed below is a reading done a few years ago by Amelia Castle and Nancy Corwin. We express our deepest thanks to them for sharing these readings with us. Please read their following comments.
NOTE: These are the only records of this cemetery and we have typed them here as they were done by the DAR in the 1940's. We have checked and found no further evidence of this cemetery or it's stones anywhere. Truitt Cemetery is located some 150 feet south of US 112 in section 15 of Milton Township.
It is in a tiny plot immediate behind a house, southeast of Leet Road. Unkempt and unmowed, it is approximately 30 x 90 and enclosed by a low stone wall. There is one family stone with the lone inscription TRUITT and five headstones sunk into the ground with only the tops protruding.
Buried in the plot is Peter Truitt, born Feb 4, 1801, died Dec. 29, 1881. From the Cass County histories, by Rogers, Waterman and Watkins, Glover and Schoetzow, the graves would appear to be those of Peter Truitt, a son Langford born on or before April, 1829. Peter's second wife Isabel (McNitt) who died in 1834-35. Peter's third wife Deborah (McNitt) a sister of Isabel who died in 1841. And Peter's fourth wife Sarah (McNitt Lane) who died in 1882. Peter Truitt married his first wife, Mary Simpler on Feb 2, 1819. Her father was a revolutionary soldier, and also a soldier in the War of 1812. Their children were: John M. Elizabeth C. (Little), Henry and David.