Locust Hill Cemetery and Arboretum
Listed in Cemetery, Ohio River Scenic Byway
3800 Kratzville Rd, Evansville, Indiana 47710
More than a cemetery, Locust Hill Cemetery and Arboretum preserves local history through its monuments, historic burials, and beautiful collection of mature trees. It offers visitors a peaceful place to explore the stories of the people who shaped the community.
North Cemetery – Mt. Vernon
Listed in Cemetery, Historical place
601 East 6th Street, Mount Vernon, Indiana 47620
Mount Vernon Democrat - The Old North Cemetery, located on Hedges Hill in Mount Vernon, can go unnoticeable to some with fallen monuments and head stones.
The cemetery, which was created in the early 1800s, is a final resting place for several who suffered from cholera in the late 19th century, Civil War veterans, and Judge John Pitcher who at one time lent a law book to Abraham Lincoln and later lent the same one to Gen. Alvin P. Hovey.
The old stones of over 500 people are now mostly gone... the Juliet North who died in 1834, the Hector Craig of 1836, the Welborn's of the 1830's and 1850's, the Mexican War veteran, the grandmother of a Secretary of State, the original stone of Judge Pitcher (replaced), the relatives of Governor Hovey. Long gone too are the names of Thomas Newman, Aaron Baker and Jesse Baker. Dust to dust including the hanged murderers of 1884 Anderson and Snyder. There were maybe as many as 50 Union soldiers buried here and victims of the cholera epidemic of 1873. What's done is done sadly.
The old Leonard family also had a family burial ground nearby.
Before Bellefontaine Cemetery was established, the main burial ground for the early Mount Vernon pioneers was the old North Cemetery, and adjacent to it the Leonard Cemetery, both located in a field at the edge of town North of East Sixth Street and west of today's Harriet Street.
Locust Hill Cemetery and Arboretum
More than a cemetery, Locust Hill Cemetery and Arboretum preserves local history through its monuments, historic burials, and beautiful collection of mature trees. It offers visitors a peaceful place to explore the stories of the people who shaped the community.
North Cemetery – Mt. Vernon
Mount Vernon Democrat - The Old North Cemetery, located on Hedges Hill in Mount Vernon, can go unnoticeable to some with fallen monuments and head stones.
The cemetery, which was created in the early 1800s, is a final resting place for several who suffered from cholera in the late 19th century, Civil War veterans, and Judge John Pitcher who at one time lent a law book to Abraham Lincoln and later lent the same one to Gen. Alvin P. Hovey.
The old stones of over 500 people are now mostly gone... the Juliet North who died in 1834, the Hector Craig of 1836, the Welborn's of the 1830's and 1850's, the Mexican War veteran, the grandmother of a Secretary of State, the original stone of Judge Pitcher (replaced), the relatives of Governor Hovey. Long gone too are the names of Thomas Newman, Aaron Baker and Jesse Baker. Dust to dust including the hanged murderers of 1884 Anderson and Snyder. There were maybe as many as 50 Union soldiers buried here and victims of the cholera epidemic of 1873. What's done is done sadly.
The old Leonard family also had a family burial ground nearby.
Before Bellefontaine Cemetery was established, the main burial ground for the early Mount Vernon pioneers was the old North Cemetery, and adjacent to it the Leonard Cemetery, both located in a field at the edge of town North of East Sixth Street and west of today's Harriet Street.
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