The red circle on this aerial photo of the former Daniel Korns, Jr. farm shows the general location of the graves on the farm, as pointed out to me by my grandmother Gladys Edna (Bittner) Korns in the 1960's, when I was a young boy. She didn't tell me who was buried there, but said that there were two individuals buried in her garden, and said the markers were gone.
In the 1990’s, when I talked to an aunt who has lived on that farm all her adult life, she told me that although she only knew of one burial there, it was a Sturtz. She said that the burial was located at a fruit tree in the garden, which was where my grandmother had also said the graves were. When the tree blew down, it uprooted the stone, and when they cleaned up the tree the stone was moved out of the garden. She didn't know there were two graves, but of that I am sure from what my grandmother told me when I was little.
I had e-mail correspondence with Keith Sturtz of Coeur D'Alene, Idaho in 1994. He said that the Allen Korns farm was once owned by his GGGG-grandfather, Christian Sturtz. He said that there were only two people buried there, said to be Christian Sturtz and his wife Margaret. He indicated that he had visited what he termed the "Sturtz cemetery" years before, and it was on the farm of John and Allen Korns, in the orchard, just back of the house a few rods. Keith wrote that the tombstone reads "C.S. died 29 Jun 1830". When Keith saw the tombstone, it had already been removed from the grave and was part of a stone fence on the property. In the 1990’s my aunt who lives on the property told me that the stone fence near the garden on the property line was bulldozed into one or more piles, so the tombstone would now be very hard to find.
