Walnut Hill Cemetery is a
cemetery
A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a buri ...
in
Petersburg, Indiana
Petersburg is a city within Washington Township and the county seat of Pike County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 2,383 at the 2010 census.
Petersburg is part of the Jasper Micropolitan Statistical Area.
History
Petersburg w ...
, less than a mile south of the lower portion of the
White River. It is sometimes called Walnut Hills Cemetery.
Notable people interred there include
George H. Proffit (1807–1847),
Arthur H. Taylor
Arthur Herbert Taylor (February 29, 1852 – February 20, 1922) was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1893 to 1895.
Biography
Born at Cale ...
(1852–1922),
Francis Blackburn Posey (1848–1915) and
Walter E. Treanor.
In 1913, a "Soldiers' and sailors' monument" was erected in Walnut Hill Cemetery, dedicated to the memory of service members from
Pike County, Indiana
Pike County is a county in the southwest portion of the U.S. state of Indiana. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 12,845. The county seat is Petersburg. It contains the geographic point representing median center of US popu ...
who served in the
American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states th ...
.
[''Historical Markers and Public Memorials in Indiana'' (1929), p. 78.]
References
External links
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* {{GNIS, 445433, Walnut Hill Cemetery
Cemeteries in Indiana