Township Cemeteries

The Alford Cemetery is in section seven located on 50 east and between 400 and 500 north. It is named for Logan Alford who owned the land when he was buried there in 1997. Records from 1965 list more than thirty persons who have been buried there, however, very few stones of those center…

Caldwell Cemetery is in section thirty-five located on the south side of Highway 40 between 400 and 500 East. It appears to have begun as a family burying grounds; two Caldwell children were the first burials in 1834. Today, the stones are standing and the grounds are well maintained by township…

Cedar Grove Cemetery is in section twenty six (in the western part of the township) located about halfway between 100 and 200 West, surrounded by private residences on Sugar Creek trail. The entrance to sugar creek trail is on the south side of 200 North, east of the bridge over Sugar Creek.“In…

The Cooper Cemetery is in section four located on the south side of 600 North between State Road 9 and 300 East. In 1887, the surrounding acres were owned by Lewis Cooper, Melissa Cooper and the heirs of Robert Cooper. Today, it is fenced on three sides, but the attractive wrought-iron archway…

The Hinchman Cemetery is in section nine located south of 100 south on Steel’s Fords Road between State Road 9 and Morristown Pike. Situated on a hill on the north side of the remote and winding road, Vandals have taken a great toll of the grave markers. Of the one hundred-forty-four catalogued…

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…

Mt. Gilead/Reeves Cemetery is in section thirteen located at the intersection of 375 North, Fortville Pike and 400 North. Mt Gilead Church was organized in 1827 and known as Brandywine Baptism Church whose first members were: Samuel and Rachel Jackson, Benjamin and Jane Spillman and James and…

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…

The Willet Cemetery is in section twenty-three (in the western park of the township) located north of Interstate 70, West of 100 West and the bridge over Sugar Creek. Many years ago, the grave markers were removed from their original site and the grounds, which once had forty-plus burials, was…