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Bethel Church Cemetery

Also known as Pettit Cemetery

Pettit, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA

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  • Get directions N County Road 1025 E
    Pettit, Indiana 47905 United States
    Coordinates: 40.42203, -86.70787
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This cemetery is completely destroyed, and is now a plowed field. There are no tombstones. No current burials.

Tippecanoe County, Indiana, Perry Township, sec 24, established date unknown. Completely destroyed. Was behind the Bethel Lutheran church at Pettit, which has also been torn down. Bethel Lutheran church met in the Pettit district school building after the school was closed. May have had a later building as well.

According to the Tippecanoe County Cemetery Survey, the location was about 600 ft north of Pettit on CR 1025, on the right, in an island in the middle of farmed land. Now completely destroyed. Gravesites probably dated from around 1900, and were mostly those of a few children. Bethel Lutheran Church was there from 1871 to 1928.



Indiana Cemetery Locations, Volume 3, published by the Indiana Genealogical Society (April 2007), gives the primary cemetery name as Bethel Cemetery with an alternate names of Pettit 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-79-39 (Bethel / Pettit Graveyard).






This cemetery is completely destroyed, and is now a plowed field. There are no tombstones. No current burials.

Tippecanoe County, Indiana, Perry Township, sec 24, established date unknown. Completely destroyed. Was behind the Bethel Lutheran church at Pettit, which has also been torn down. Bethel Lutheran church met in the Pettit district school building after the school was closed. May have had a later building as well.

According to the Tippecanoe County Cemetery Survey, the location was about 600 ft north of Pettit on CR 1025, on the right, in an island in the middle of farmed land. Now completely destroyed. Gravesites probably dated from around 1900, and were mostly those of a few children. Bethel Lutheran Church was there from 1871 to 1928.



Indiana Cemetery Locations, Volume 3, published by the Indiana Genealogical Society (April 2007), gives the primary cemetery name as Bethel Cemetery with an alternate names of Pettit 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-79-39 (Bethel / Pettit Graveyard).






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