Monroe Cemetery in Madison, Indiana - Find a Grave Cemetery

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Get directions 1500 Michigan Road
Madison, Indiana 47250 United States

Coordinates: 38.75640, -85.38500
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The cemetery is located in Madison Township (W half of the SW quadrant of Section 26 Township 4N Range 10E) on the east side of Michigan Road about 800 feet south of E State Street. The cemetery is located south of Fairmount Cemetery and east of Baxter Cemetery. The cemetery was relocated from Monroe Township when the federal government created the Jefferson Proving Grounds in 1940-1941. The cemetery was associated with the Lancaster Presbyterian Church (New Style) and was at Ridpath on the southeast corner of County Road 200 W and County Road 850 N (B Road).

Indiana Cemetery Locations, Volume 4, published by the Indiana Genealogical Society (April 2009), gives the primary cemetery name as Monroe 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-39-65 (Monroe Presbyterian Church).

The Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory (IHSSI) survey number for Monroe Cemetery is 077-119-32016 with the dataset compiled in 1989.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) feature ID for the cemetery is 439340 (Monroe Cemetery).