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Sparta Township, Dearborn County Indiana

This is a list of the delegates for Sparta Township for the 1859 Convention.
Source: The Lawrenceburg Register, July 17, 1859 edition.
James D. English
Joseph Bookwalter
John Miller
Stephen T. Bruce
William Wheeler

Below are links with information concerning towns in Sparta Township.

The first two items were contributed by Barb Boese and were taken from the book:

COTTON'S KEEPSAKE POEMS OF VARIOUS SUBJECTS
By Rev. Judge A. J. Cotton, Philom.
PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR,
BY APPLEGATE & CO.,
1858
Thanks Barb!

Moores Hill
Sparta, Sinai Chaple, Chesterville, Freewill Church
Moores Hill Sesquicentennial
       
 

CEMETERIES and BURIAL PLACES: In Sparta Township

... South Sparta Cemetery -partial list of interments
... South Sparta Cemetery ( Section 27 on map)
... Beatty Cemetery (Section 24 on map)
... Bedunnah Cemetery (Section 12 on map)
... Churchill Cemetery (Section 13 on map)
... Chance Family aka Willis Family Cemetery Not Shown on Map See Cemetery Notes
... Cold Springs Church Cemetery (Section 26 on Map Just above #26)
... Concord Cemetery (Section 36 on map)
... Eden Cemetery (Section 28 on Map)
... Forrest Hill Cemetery aka Moores Hill Public Cemetery (Section 10 on map)
... Heaton Cemetery (Section 22 on map)
... McKinstry Cemetery (Section 13 on map)
... Olcott Family Cemetery (Section 31 on map)
... Thomas Record Cemetery (Section 31 on map)
... Todd Cemetery (Section 3 on map)
... George C. Transier Family Cemetery (Section 6 on map)
... Turner Cemetery (Section 27 on map)
... Union Cemetery (Section 23 on map)
... Whiteford Family Cemetery (Section 18 on map)


NOTE: Most all of the above links take you to the "Find a Grave Website". All have a map showing the location of that particular Cemetery. Select "HYBRID" and "ZOOM IN TO MAX, and it can be an amazing picture of the placement of the tombstones from above. Also you can select the "INTERMENTS" and get the "NAMES" and many have photographs of the individual tombstones.

There are 94 Cemeteries and Burial Places named in "Dearborn County, Indiana, Cemetery Records, Volume C" By Milton A. Massing. From that list, 18 were found containing information, located in Sparta Township (Shown Above)

Most of the links above, to the individual cemeteries have partial lists of interments, others may have photographs of the cemetery. If you can not find a surname you are looking for in the partial list, then contact Pete Nocks. He has the full set of 4 Volumes of "Dearborn County, Indiana, Cemetery Records" by Milton Massing. These books cover every township in Dearborn County, Except "Harrison, Logan, and Miller" Townships. These books contain Names of Cemeteries, Names of interments, Photographs, and other vital information 		 Sparta Township 

Thanks to the volunteers who submitted the information at these links!

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