Mt. Carmel Cemetery

The Mt. Carmel Cemetery is in section one in the northwest part of the township located on 25 West between 500 and 600 north. In 1838 the Mt. Carmel Methodist Church was organized in a log schoolhouse situated on the east bluff of Sugar Creek, near the present site of the cemetery. Among the first members were Owen and Andrew Jarrett, Martha Swope, William and Polly Jones, John Alley, Riley Taylor, John and Nancy Lewis, Samuel Henry, and Mrs. Joseph (Martha) Chapman.

The society membership increased, and in 1853, a frame building was constructed by Henry Moore at the cost of $800. Services were held regularly until the early 1900.

Today the church building is gone but two square concrete posts remain at the north boundary of the burying ground that indicate a long ago gate and fence around the more than one hundred graves. Many stones are standing but many have toppled to the ground and are overgrown with weeds.

Sue Baker, CGRS

Heritage Books Copyright 1993

1833-1933

This Cemetery is Township Owned and Operated

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