Sowers-Kennedy Cemetery in Sylvania, Indiana

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Get directions Veach Road (County Road 274)
Sylvania, Indiana 47832 United States

Coordinates: 39.92623, -87.26507
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The cemetery may also be called Kennedy-Sowers. In Liberty Township on private land north east of Sylvania-land locked, through 3 fields. This area is in the woods, dilapidated old wire fence does enclose area with ravines on all sides but cemetery is flat. Old rotting fence posts at entrance with rusty hinge hanging on one post. There was a road at one time, telephone/utility poles are in the field.

The cemetery is located in Liberty Township (NE quadrant of the NE quadrant of Section 13 Township 17N Range 8W) about 1350 feet south of Veach Road (County Road 274) about 0.5 miles west of its intersection with County Road 90 W.

Indiana Cemetery Locations, Volume 3, published by the Indiana Genealogical Society (April 2007), gives the primary cemetery name as Kennedy Cemetery with an alternative name of Sowers 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-61-85 (Kennedy / Sowers).

The Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory (IHSSI) survey number for Kennedy / Sowers Family Plot is 121-315-10014 with the dataset compiled in 2008.