Saint Paul Cemetery in Forest, Indiana

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Coordinates: 40.34500, -86.30030
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St. Paul Cemetery is located in Forest Township of Clinton County, Indiana on the southwest and northwest corners of Clinton County Roads 1100E and 400N. The section on the southwest corner is the original portion of the cemetery and was named Swamp Creek Graveyard and was associated with a Methodist Episcopal church. The original church, built in 1855, was a 16 feet by 18 feet log building and stood in the present cemetery until a new brick church was constructed in 1878 outside of the cemetery. At this time the church and cemetery were renamed St. Paul. The St. Paul Methodist Church was abandoned in the 1940s. The first known burial in Swamp Creek Graveyard was Leander R. Rollins, the 4 year son of Isaac and Mary Caroline Rollins on October 5, 1852. This older portion of St. Paul Cemetery was listed as Swamp Creek Cemetery in Indiana death certificates into the 1920s. There are 476 known burials in this older section of St. Paul Cemetery based upon gravestones, Indiana death certificates and newspaper obituaries.

In 1908, St. Paul Cemetery added four acres of land on the northwest corner of Clinton County Roads 1100E and 400N. This new section of the cemetery was laid out in 429 lots of four burial spaces. The first burial in the new section of St. Paul was Lena Phillips on July 8, 1908. In 1909, St. Paul Cemetery Association was officially incorporated with the State of Indiana. As of 2021 there are 820 internments in the new section of St. Paul Cemetery.