Hire Cemetery
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Hire Cemetery

Benton Township, Elkhart County, Indiana, USA

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  • Get directions 12030 County Road 148
    Benton Township, Indiana 46767 United States
    Coordinates: 41.47631, -85.69466
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The cemetery is located in Benton Township (NE quadrant of the SE quadrant of the NE quadrant of Section 22 Township 35N Range 7E) on the north side of County Road 148 about 0.2 miles west of its intersection with County Road 39.

Indiana Cemetery Locations, Volume 1, published by the Indiana Genealogical Society (02 April 2005), gives the primary cemetery name as Hire 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-20-6 (Hire).

The Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory (IHSSI) survey number for Hire Cemetery is 039-340-85030 with the dataset compiled in 2004.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) feature ID for the cemetery is 436242 (Hire Cemetery).

This is one of the early cemeteries in the county. The area was settled in the early 1830's with many of the early settlers coming here from Ohio. Many had Virginia or Maryland family connections. Originally there was a church located at this site and was known as the Colglazer Chapel. A couple of miles southeast of this location in the 1870's the Richville Methodist Church was erected. Because of the newer church it was decided that the Chapel building was of no furtther use so was discontinued. The oldest marker found is for John Hire, son of Jessie and D. Hire, who died in September 1833 in his second year of age. " Elkhart Genealogical Society, 1986.









The cemetery is located in Benton Township (NE quadrant of the SE quadrant of the NE quadrant of Section 22 Township 35N Range 7E) on the north side of County Road 148 about 0.2 miles west of its intersection with County Road 39.

Indiana Cemetery Locations, Volume 1, published by the Indiana Genealogical Society (02 April 2005), gives the primary cemetery name as Hire 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-20-6 (Hire).

The Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory (IHSSI) survey number for Hire Cemetery is 039-340-85030 with the dataset compiled in 2004.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) feature ID for the cemetery is 436242 (Hire Cemetery).

This is one of the early cemeteries in the county. The area was settled in the early 1830's with many of the early settlers coming here from Ohio. Many had Virginia or Maryland family connections. Originally there was a church located at this site and was known as the Colglazer Chapel. A couple of miles southeast of this location in the 1870's the Richville Methodist Church was erected. Because of the newer church it was decided that the Chapel building was of no furtther use so was discontinued. The oldest marker found is for John Hire, son of Jessie and D. Hire, who died in September 1833 in his second year of age. " Elkhart Genealogical Society, 1986.









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