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The New Lisbon Cemetery is located in Jackson Township on the southwest corner of the intersection of County Roads 800 East and 550 North. There is an old and new (1893) section for this cemetery, located on both sides of County Road 800 East. Some of the stones are written in German.
This list of cemeteries in Indiana includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
New Lisbon was originally called Jamestown, and under the latter name was platted in 1833. [3] Jamestown was named in honor of one of its founders, James Tomlinson, Jr. (1800-1881), [4] but it was afterwards changed because there was another post office in the state with a similar name. [3] It was then named after New Lisbon, Columbiana County ...
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The second of thirteen children, he moved to Lisbon, Ohio, in 1809. [4] Working in the iron business, as had his father, he operated foundries in New Lisbon, Niles, Poland, and finally Canton. [5] He married Nancy Allison Campbell on January 6, 1829. His parents, James S. and Mary Rose McKinley, both died in South Bend, Indiana, on August 20, 1847.
A remarkable photograph of an American bald eagle perched atop of a veteran's gravestone went viral on Memorial Day, and reminded the nation the true reason for the national holiday.Sunday evening ...
In 2005 the site was visited by 147,443 people. On site is a visitor center, featuring a 15-minute orientation film about Lincoln's time in Indiana, and museum and memorial halls. The site is located about ten minutes off the Interstate 64 / U.S. 231 junction and near the new U.S. 231 Route, named the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Parkway in his honor.
Friends of Eastern Cemetery is a nonprofit group that helps maintain the 175-year-old abandoned cemetery at 641 Baxter Ave. The group cleans up and mows the 29-acre property from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m ...