This cemetery is located between county roads 300 West and 400 West on the
north side of 400 North in Franklin Township, on the Township line of White River and Franklin. Earliest known burial in 1840.
At one time a church was on the south side of the road.
Sexton: Dean Cunningham 765-584-1535
Tucker's History Page 127.
New Dayton (Bear Creek Graveyard) White River Township, Section 35, Town 21,Range 13; size, 122 square rods; John Ray, proprietor; number of lots, thirty-five;recorded September 25, 1872.
Bear Creek Graveyard, second addition, John Ray, proprietor; number of lots, 110;
Section 35, Town 21, Range 13; recorded August 11, 1877-
Maj. Brown, April 7, 1855, 63 years.
Catharine, wife of Maj. Brown, April 15, 1855, 71 years.
William Platt, August 28, 1861, 75 years.
John N. Gettle, Sr., March 29, 1862, 77 years.
Esther, wife of James Stanley, November 22, 1862, 67 years.
John Addington, Company A, Eighty-fourth Indiana, September 12, 1864, 23 years.
Dorcas, wife of W.R. Addington, September 6, 1869, 60 years.
William R. Addington, October 5, 1875, 73 years.
Francis Bergwitz, August 16, 1872, 80 Years.
David Booher, March 16, 1874, 76 years.
Elizabeth, wife of Walter Ruble, November 11, 1874, 68 years.
Jane, wife of Salathiel Dodd, February 25, 1875, 76 years.
Robert Stephen, December 29, 1875, 61 years.
Joshua Mattbie, September 25, 1875, 62 years.
John K. Puckett, March 7, 1876. 73 years.
Elizabeth, wife of George W. Smithson, April 4, 1876, 80 years.
John Winship, September 7, 1876, 82 years.
Elizabeth, wife of Luke Hollowell, October 8, 1877, 62 years.
Margaret Manser, December 5, 1877, 77 years.
Walter Ruble, December 8, 1878, 89 years.
Elizabeth, wife of Joshua Maltbie, June 29, 1879, 55 years.
In Ridgeville, east of Walnut Street between First and Second Street on Race Street is a small cemetery.
One of the first burials was Delilah Pierce, infant daughter of Burket, who died in 1819.
Tucker's History Page 128.
Ridgeville (east of town, new, Franklin Township, Section 12, Town 21, Range 13)
Peter Dailey, January 10, 1879, 71 years.
Pennell Mendenhall, April 16, 1871, age not given
Hugh Williamson, October 26, 1873, 73 years.
Mary Anna Williamson, May 2, 1878, 73 years.
Nancy, wife of Peter Dailey, August 21, 1877, 81 years.
The old Ridgeville Graveyard is in disuse and neglected.
Most of the interments in the region are made in Ritenour's Cemetery, as the oldest and most carefully kept burial-ground in the region.
One would have supposed that a place settled as long as the vicinity of Ridgeville has been, would have had a carefully preserved cemetery, dating back from the olden time.
Such seems, however, to be not the fact. Indeed, the extensive settlement of the neighborhood was accomplished only much later than the original entry into that wilderness by the Lewallyns, the Kizers and the Ward's.
The old graveyard at Ridgeville appears to have been unsuitable, and therefore, little used, and the new one has been opened for interments only for a short time.
In the southeast edge of Ridgeville near the Mississinewa River is the old cemetery that was not cared for many years, but is now well kept.
The earliest known burial is 1860.Sam Ginger, a Civil War Veteran and author of "Reminiscence of the Mississinewa" is buried here.
On a farm (possibly owned by the family) located along the Mississinewa River south of State Road 28, near County Road 500 West.
Only a few names are known for those buried here.
In the 1865 plat map there is a cemetery located south of the River on county road 400 West
just north of County Road 800 North.
Nothing else is known about this cemetery.
Two other sites have been reported by residents.
One is between county roads 500 West and 600 West.
The second is between State Road 28 and the river in Section 9.