Historic grave sites
Elwood’s cemeteries offer an opportunity to tell the city’s history through the lives of people who helped establish the original settlement, develop its banking and railroad connections, attract industry during the Indiana Gas Boom, and build its civic institutions.
If you have a loved one buried in an Elwood Cemetery here are search sites that may assist you.
Pioneer Cemeteries in Elwood & Pipe Creek Township
Because pioneer graveyards were often established by early homesteading families or tiny church congregations, several of these locations are known by multiple family names.
Duck Creek Cemetery (Carr / Frazier / Ray / Roys / Tranbarger)
Located on the south side of CR 1100N, between State Road 13 and CR 1000W. This site carries a high concentration of alternate pioneer family names because it served a wide selection of the area’s earliest homesteaders.
Cemetery
Frankton, IN · 12.3 mi
Situated at the northeast corner of Washington Street (575N) and Clyde Street in Frankton. Named for the family who originally owned the parcel, it is documented as one of the first two pioneer graveyards established to serve the area’s immediate population.
Howard Cemetery (Reason / Manis)
Cemetery
Frankton, IN · 13.1 mi
Located on a hill along the north side of CR 900N, between CR 500W and CR 575W. Started in the 1840s near the Etchison Ditch, it holds many of the township’s earliest settlers, including Joseph Miller, the area’s first indispensable blacksmith.
Cemetery
Frankton, IN · 12.3 mi
Found on the south side of CR 700N, between CR 700W and CR 750W. Begun in the mid-1830s for early farming families, it contains the legible stone of Elizabeth Flint (who died in 1835) as well as the grave of John Miller, the third pioneer to homestead in the township.
Cemetery
Frankton, IN · 12.1 mi
Located on the north side of CR 600N, between CR 750W and CR 800W, sitting right on the west side of Pipe Creek itself. It is tied to the family of John Shell, who was the very first settler to clear land and build a log shelter in the township around 1830.
Cemetery
Frankton, IN · 12.9 mi
Situated on the south side of CR 850N, west of CR 575W (Washington Avenue) in Frankton. It serves as the final resting place of Jacob Sigler and his extensive family, who moved to the wilderness in 1832 and originally platted the town of Frankton.
Stoker Cemetery (Brown Cemetery)
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Alexandria, IN · 14.2 mi
An early settlers’ plot frequently referred to as the Brown Cemetery. It acts as a preservation site for several early local lineages, including the area’s pioneer Etchison families.
Cemetery
Elwood, IN · 14.7 mi
Located on the east side of CR 600W, nestled between CR 1000N and CR 1100N. It preserves the history of the early Welbourn family line that moved into the northern quadrant of the township during its initial developmental years. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
