Sugar Creek Cemetery

Sugar Creek Cemetery is in section twenty-three, west of State Road 9, located about one-quarter mile south of 200 north on a lane immediately east of the bridge over Sugar Creek. The Sugar Creek Methodist Church was organized in 1838. Two years later, the membership bought one acre of land from Richard Hutson for twenty-five dollars and built a log church thirty-by-thirty-eight feet.

The membership lived on both sides of Sugar Creek, but about 1850 those on the west side withdrew and attended church in a schoolhouse on their side of the creek. During the Civil War, a number of members joined the Cedar Grove Church which was located about one mile directly south. Therefore, the congregation dwindled to a very few. The resilient membership began to award the contract for a new frame church building to John S. Orr for $1,500. Regular Sunday services were held as late as 1916.

Today, there is no trace of a church building, and the cemetery, situated on a bluff overlooking Sugar Creek, is maintained by county funds.

Sue Baker, CGRS

Heritage Books Copyright 1993

1833-1933

This Cemetery is Township Owned and Operated
No plots are currently for sale