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Butterfield Cemetery

Also known as Old Gopher Hill Cemetery

Kent Township, Warren County, Indiana, USA

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  • Get directions W County Road 950 S
    Kent Township, Indiana 47993 United States
    Coordinates: 40.17813, -87.50927
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Old Gopher Hill/Butterfield Cemetery Kent Township (defunct) Approximately 40 graves were here, including one or two of William Henry Harrison's soldiers and members of the Butterfield family. This cemetery was destroyed in the 1920s.

About two and one-half miles southeast of State Line City in Warren County north of intersection 950 South and 1000 West was the old Tippecanoe Indian Trail, which ran from Vincennes to Tippecanoe. This was the same trail William Henry Harrison used in 1811 on his march to and from the Battle of Tippecanoe. The trail ran through the dooryard of the house near the intersection and continued north a half mile to where Harrison camped and two of his soldiers were buried. The gentle slope facing east is known as Gopher Hill. The Nathaniel Butterfield family settled there in 1822. Nearly all the family died of cholera in 1845 and five members of the family were buried in the Old Gopher Hill Cemetery which no longer exists.

Present Day Gopher Hill Cemetery is in State Line, Warren, IN:
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/85153/gopher-hill-cemetery



The map location is approximate. The cemetery is described as being near a two-story house on the northwest corner of the intersection of W County Road 950 S and S County Road 1000 W.



Indiana Cemetery Locations, Volume 2, published by the Indiana Genealogical Society (01 April 2006), gives the primary cemetery name as Butterfield Cemetery with an alternate name of Old Gopher Hill Cemetery.



Old Gopher Hill/Butterfield Cemetery Kent Township (defunct) Approximately 40 graves were here, including one or two of William Henry Harrison's soldiers and members of the Butterfield family. This cemetery was destroyed in the 1920s.

About two and one-half miles southeast of State Line City in Warren County north of intersection 950 South and 1000 West was the old Tippecanoe Indian Trail, which ran from Vincennes to Tippecanoe. This was the same trail William Henry Harrison used in 1811 on his march to and from the Battle of Tippecanoe. The trail ran through the dooryard of the house near the intersection and continued north a half mile to where Harrison camped and two of his soldiers were buried. The gentle slope facing east is known as Gopher Hill. The Nathaniel Butterfield family settled there in 1822. Nearly all the family died of cholera in 1845 and five members of the family were buried in the Old Gopher Hill Cemetery which no longer exists.

Present Day Gopher Hill Cemetery is in State Line, Warren, IN:
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/85153/gopher-hill-cemetery



The map location is approximate. The cemetery is described as being near a two-story house on the northwest corner of the intersection of W County Road 950 S and S County Road 1000 W.



Indiana Cemetery Locations, Volume 2, published by the Indiana Genealogical Society (01 April 2006), gives the primary cemetery name as Butterfield Cemetery with an alternate name of Old Gopher Hill Cemetery.



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