Mowrey Cemetery

Clay Township, Decatur County, Indiana, USA

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Get directions W Base Road
Clay Township, Indiana 47240 United States

Coordinates: 39.33280, -85.57920
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According to research done in 1978, this cemetery was renovated about 1920
by Nelson Mowrey, who erected a wall around the graveyard. The researchers
also estimated that there were 20-25 unmarked graves there. (ref: Mowrey
Cemetery burial list at Decatur County IN library)

The cemetery is located in Clay Township (SW quadrant of the NE quadrant of the NE quadrant of Section 12 Township 10N Range 8E) about 950 feet south of W Base Road about 0.3 miles west of its intersection with N County Road 500 W.

Indiana Cemetery Locations, Volume 3, published by the Indiana Genealogical Society (April 2007), gives the primary cemetery name as Mowrey Cemetery.

The cemetery is listed in the Cemetery and Burial Grounds Registry of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and in the State Historical Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD) with Cemetery Record Number CR-16-23 (Mowrey).

The Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory (IHSSI) survey number for Mowrey Cemetery is 031-211-15033 with the dataset compiled in 1999.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) feature ID for the cemetery is 439787 (Mowrey Cemetery).

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