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Lindenwood Cemetery is a rural cemetery operated by Dignity Memorial in Fort Wayne, Indiana, established in 1859. With over 74,000 graves and covering 175 acres (0.71 km 2 ), it is one of the largest cemeteries in Indiana.
Crown Hill Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located at 700 West 38th Street in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana. The privately owned cemetery was established in 1863 at Strawberry Hill, whose summit was renamed "The Crown", a high point overlooking Indianapolis.
This list of cemeteries in Indiana includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
Burton Cemetery (one of three with the same name in Indiana) has one grave for John Pleasant Burton, a private in the Revolutionary War (1758-1836), who was buried standing up.
The cemetery was established in 1843 by Rev. Edward Sorin, soon after he founded the university. Brothers of the congregation also established a mortuary, one of the first in Indiana. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries it was a Catholic cemetery open to the public. In 1977 ownership was transferred from the Congregation to the university.
Even the cemetery where he’s buried shares his name. Gravesite – Thomas Chittenden Cemetery , Williston A marker shown Sept. 4, 2024 greets visitors to Thomas Chittenden Cemetery in Williston.
On October 7, 1869, John F. Wilson, a former private in Company E, 70th Regiment Indiana Infantry, became the first Union veteran of the Civil War to be buried in the National Cemetery. Eighty-five others were buried in the remaining plots in Section 10. The last burial of a Civil War soldier in Crown Hill's National Cemetery took place on ...
For almost 24 years, two babies pivotal to Indiana's history were left in unmarked graves — their names and stories mostly forgotten.