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Olive Hill Cemetery

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Location	:	Morgan Township, Owen County, USA
Coordinate	:	39.3711950, -86.9285110
Description	:	Olive Hill Cemetery is a pioneer cemetery located in Morgan Township, Owen County, Indiana in what was once Jordan Village, a farming community. Per the DNR, the first internment was 1860 and the cemetery was formally formed in 1863. Per Raymond Collins account (written with the help of Mrs. Dorothy Eikenberry, 1984), the Olive Hill Church which once stood on the southeast corner of the grounds. After it burned, care of Olive Hill was assumed by the Presbyterian church until such time as they abandoned those duties. Mr Collins was the gravedigger, but kept no written records.... Read More	Olive Hill Cemetery is a pioneer cemetery located in Morgan Township, Owen County, Indiana in what was once Jordan Village, a farming community. Per the DNR, the first internment was 1860 and the cemetery was formally formed in 1863. Per Raymond Collins account (written with the help of Mrs. Dorothy Eikenberry, 1984), the Olive Hill Church which once stood on the southeast corner of the grounds. After it burned, care of Olive Hill was assumed by the Presbyterian church until such time as they abandoned those duties. Mr Collins was the gravedigger, but kept no written records. He attempted to help rectify the situation prior to his death in 1984 but, according to his and Mrs Eikenberry's writing: "...the rough work of listing plots and graves was only about 1/2 finished at the time of his death in the fall of 1984. Mrs. Eikenberry finished the listing but it is so inaccurate as graves are not in straight rows and stone information is frequently weathered beyond reading. Probably graves are there that have no markers. Spaces between graves is also not always of standard size. Mr. Collins hast done a fair job of marking plots in the first few rows with cans filled with cement and thei rlisting does accurately include that information but others may also have agreed to other promises in regard to those same marked lots." Further into his diary, Mr. Eikenberry states "About 19??, when land of the cemetery was divided into plots and readied for real estate sale by Mr. Leonard White, he donated or sold an additional 50 ft to Olive Hill Cemetery." He was referring to the Olive Hill Cemetery Association, who is listed as owner on the deed. In the 1970s, the Olive Hill Cemetery Association was formed with the goal of creating an endowment fund from which the interest would fund the upkeep of the cemetery. The association was allowed to become defunct shortly after and is not registered anywhere with the State. Few records still exist from that association, although an account controlled by one of the two living original members, Kenny Anderson, still exists. Kenny solicits funds for mowing as needed but otherwise doesn't provide for the upkeep of the cemetery. Burials continue despite the poor records and lack of funding for upkeep. Many veterans are buried at Olive Hill, ranging from the war of 1812 through Korea and including the Civil War, WWI, and WWII. The cemetery has been in decline for many years. The last enhancement to the property was when Mrs. Jean Biddle Eyster and Mrs. Oweetah Biddle Pyle donated money for an iron fence in the front and a bronze marker with the cemetery name. The original boundaries, delineated on the south and west by stone pillars that originally held a fence, have been encroached by trees and weeds. Many markers recorded and photographed in the Indiana cemetery census project of the last century and memorialzed on Findagrave are no longer in evidence. A website was created to share the history of the cemetery and engage the community in preservation efforts. www.olivehillcemetery.org.

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Olive Hill Cemetery is located at 2833 Flowing Well Road Morgan Township, Owen County ,Indiana , 47833USA.
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Latitude: 39.3711950
Longitude: -86.9285110

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