Versailles, IN Public Court Records

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About Versailles
Rich in history that saw the Miami, Delaware, Potawatomi, and Shawnee Indians hunting the area, on top of a bluff overlooking Laughery Creek, Versailles, Indiana became a part of the State of Indiana after a proposal in 1816 that a new county be formed. This county was named for General Eleazer Wheelock Ripley, a hero of the War of 1812.


John Paul donated Land for the Cliff Hill Cemetery, so named because of its location, in 1827. Legend tells of a Dr. Jonathan Gordon and two medical students from Napoleon, John Glass and Bernard Mullen, who came to the cemetery one night in 1846 to dig up the corpse of a patient who had died of an unknown cause while under Gordon's care. The three men were curious to find out the reason for the patient's demise. When a guard sounded the alarm and a mob of angry citizens entered the cemetery, Glass, unfamiliar with the landscape, ran through the brush, falling off the steep cliff. Gordon fled the state and the injured Glass and Mullen were indicted never went to trial. Even though Glass fell over the embankment, the overlook in the Cliff Hill Cemetery has since been known as "Gordon's Leap".