Many Johnson County cemeteries have been lost to time, farming and development. Others have been moved to new locations. Below is a list of cemeteries that have existed at one time or another. They are listed by township. Much of the information on these pages comes from the Johnson County Cemetery Listings, published in 2000 by the Johnson County Historical Society.
There are 163 cemeteries listed for Johnson County. Of those, 54 have been lost due to various reasons and nine have been moved, although one of those, Pioneer Park, was only partially moved. Some of the cemeteries were moved to Atterbury Cemetery, which was established in the 1940's to move the graves to make way for Camp Atterbury. Some of the cemeteries moved to Atterbury were originally in Bartholomew County.
I can do lookups for any of these cemeteries. Contact me at brad@bradmanz.com.
Also visit the Veterans Graves page with listings sorted by conflict.
The links below will take you to the Find A Grave
page for each cemetery. Using Find A Grave speeds the process of
posting pictures and allows for user interaction. Not all listings on
Find A Grave are complete and some have burials in the wrong cemetery
or have cemetery or surnames spelled differently than on the sign or
headstone. I contact the Find A Grave guy from time to time when I find
errors and they usually get them corrected quickly. Ultimately this
will be a better way to share the information with everyone and allow
others to pitch in.
This will search the listings posted to Find
A Grave. If a name you are looking for is not here please contact me
and I will search the books that I have.
Blue River Township [View Map]
Adams Cemetery/ LOST
Armstrong Cemetery/LOST
Armstrong Cemetery (aka Israel and Anderson)
Atterbury Cemetery
Atwood Cemetery
Barnett Cemetery (aka Mathis and Matthews)/ LOST
Branigan Cemetery/ LOST
Cutsinger Cemetery/ LOST
DeHart Cemetery (aka Knapp)
Edinburgh Hill
Freeman Cemetery (aka Sugar Creek)
Grave in the Middle of the Road (aka Hill's Camp and Nancy Barnett's Grave)
Hamner Cemetery (aka Amity) Owner: Hamner Cemetery Association
Hollandbeck Cemetery (Moved to Atterbury Cemetery)
Lash Cemetery/ LOST
Oliver Cemetery/ LOST
Pisgah Methodist Church Cemetery- (Moved to Atterbury Cemetery)
Pritchard Cemetery (Moved to Atterbury Cemetery)
Pruitt Cemetery/ LOST
Rest Haven Cemetery (aka Edinburgh)
Clark Township [View Map]
Billingsly Cemetery/ LOST
Demott Cemetery/ LOST
Draper Cemetery (Graves may have been moved to Glade-Dobbins Cemetery)
Glade-Dobbins Cemetery (aka Dobbins)
Huffman Cemetery
Imel Cemetery (Moved to Rocklane Cemetery in 1940.)
Johnson Farm Cemetery/ LOST
Knapp Cemetery/ LOST
Nolin Cemetery
Rocklane Cemetery
Stevens Cemetery
Williams Cemetery
Franklin Township [View Map]
County Farm Cemetery (aka Poor Farm)/ LOST
Crittenden Cemetery/ LOST
Forsyth Cemetery/ LOST
Greenlawn Cemetery Owner: City of Franklin
Hopewell Cemetery
Leach Cemetery/ LOST
McCaslin Cemetery
McCauley Cemetery
Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Pioneer Park Cemetery At Province Park Owner: City of Franklin
Utter Cemetery/ LOST
VanArsdall Cemetery/ LOST
Hensley Township [View Map]
Beech Grove Cemetery
Bethlehem Cemetery
Byers Cemetery
Clark Cemetery (aka Clark-Lynam)
Davis Cemetery/ LOST
Friendship Methodist Cemetery Owner: Friendship Cemetery Association
Hensley Cemetery/ LOST
Hiatt Cemetery (aka Hiatt-Rogers)
Hoglan Cemetery/ LOST
Kennedy Cemetery
Mount Carmel Cemetery
Mount Olive Cemetery (aka Peoga or Kelly) Some of this cemetery is in Brown County.
Prather Cemetery
Prather Place Cemetery
Sturgeon Cemetery
White Cemetery
Needham Township [View Map]
Abbett Cemetery
Devore Cemetery
Hendricks Cemetery I/ LOST
Hendricks Cemetery II/LOST
Hurricane Cemetery Owner: Hurricane Cemetery Association
Magill-Patterson
McClain Cemetery/ LOST
Mount Pleasant 2nd Cemetery
Mozingo Cemetery
Needham Cemetery
Owens Cemetery
Patterson Cemetery
Prather Farm Cemetery/ LOST
Sanders Cemetery
Smiley's Mill Cemetery
Webb Cemetery
Wiles Cemetery
Wild Cemetery
Young's Creek Cemetery (aka Tennessee)
Nineveh Township [View Map]
Bridges Cemetery/ LOST
Calvin Cemetery
Drybread Cemetery/ LOST
Forsyth-Featherngill Cemetery (aka Tucker Creek)
Forsyth Cemetery (aka Waltz Farm)
Hardin Cemetery/ LOST
Hensley Cemetery/ LOST
Hughes Cemetery
Jacobs Cemetery
Keaton Cemetery
Legan Cemetery/ LOST
Lick Spring Baptist Cemetery
Loughery Cemetery/ LOST
Mitchell Cemetery/ LOST
Mullikin Cemetery I (also Mulligan)/ LOST
Mullikin Cemetery II (also Mulligan)
Nay Cemetery (aka Tremain)
Nineveh Christian Church Cemetery
Old Nineveh Cemetery (aka Stone Arch Bridge and Old Kansas)
Parkhurst Cemetery/ LOST
Park Cemetery
Prisoner of War Cemetery (aka POW Chapel Cemetery) Offsite link
Moved to Camp Butler National Cemetery, Springfield, IL in 1970.
Prichard Cemetery (also Pritchard)/ LOST
Riggs Cemetery
Spurlin Cemetery (aka Bruce Spurlin Farm)/ LOST
Tucker Cemetery
Watkins Cemetery (aka Pickerell)
White Cemetery
Wiley Cemetery/ LOST
Woodruff Cemetery (aka Woodruff Hill)/ LOST
Pleasant Township [View Map]
Sadly,
all but two of the Pleasant Township cemeteries are gone. Of the nine
total listed by the historical society one is still active (Greenwood),
one is still accessable (Pleasant Grove), two have been moved to the
Greenwood Cemetery (Noble and Old Greenwood) and the remaining five are
lost to time or farming.
Brewer Cemetery/ LOST
In
1932 the DAR noted that the exact loaction was not known but that
Banta's History stated that the lone known burial was in the woods near
the residence. The one known burial is that of Abraham LeMasters, born
Aug. 26, 1756, died Nov. 3, 1837 who fought at the Battle of Kings
Mountain (according to Historical Society cemetery listing) in South
Carolina during the American Revolution. This property is in the
section at the south-west corner of US 31 and Tracy Rd. in Whiteland.
Greenwood Cemetery- Established April 9, 1884
Harlow Cemetery/ LOST
Murphy Cemetery/ LOST
Noble Cemtery/ Moved to Greenwood Cemetery
Old Greenwood (aka Greenwood Baptist Church)/ Moved to Greenwood Cemetery
Pleasant Grove Cemetery Owner: Pleasant Township Trustee
Stewart Cemetery/ LOST
Stewart Cemetery 2/ LOST
Union Township [View Map]
Boles Cemetery
Carman Cemetery
Deer Cemetery (aka Providence Christian Church)
Deer Cemetery II
Dillman Cemetery
Dollens Cemetery (aka South Stott's Creek Church)
Duke Cemetery/ LOST
Gilmore Cemetery
Harris Cemetery
Henderson Cemetery
Howell Farm Cemetery/ LOST
Kephart Cemetery (aka Vaughn)/ LOST
McColgin Cemetery
Old Shiloh Church Cemetery
Pierce Cemetery- Possibly in Morgan County.
Pottenger Cemetery/ LOST
Riggs Cemetery/ LOST
Rivers Cemetery
Rivers Cemetery- Old/ LOST
Selch Cemetery (aka Cox)/ LOST
Simpson Cemetery
South Stott's Creek Old Burial Place
Utterback Cemetery
Watts Cemetery/ LOST
White River Township [View Map]
Bargersville Cemetery (aka Doty) Owner:
White River Township
Trustee
See Also: Bargersville Cemetery at Stone Revival Cemetery Restoration
Bluff Creek Cemetery
Boaz Cemetery (aka Old Tresslar Farm)- LOST
Cedar Hills Cemetery- LOST
Foglesong Cemetery
Forest Lawn Memory Gardens Owner: Forest Lawn Memory Gardens, Inc.
Harrell Cemetery- LOST
Honey Creek Cemetery
Lowe Burying Ground
Lyons Cemetery (aka Dorrell) Owner:
White River Township
Trustee
Mallow Cemetery Owner: Privately owned by Mallow family descendants
Messersmith Cemetery Owner: White River Township Trustee
Miller Cemetery
Mount Auburn Cemetery (aka Surface)
Mount Pleasant Cemetery (aka Glenn's Valley)
Orme Cemetery (aka Schreckingast)- LOST
Robinson Cemetery
Rush Cemetery
Salem Cemetery
Shufflebarger Cemetery
Tresslar Cemetery (aka Dresslar)
