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Salem Cemetery

Also known as Heaton Cemetery

Clay Township, Decatur County, Indiana, USA

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Get directions E Vandalia Road (W County Road 240 NW)
Clay Township, Indiana 47240 United States

Coordinates: 39.37233, -85.60658
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Cemetery is abandoned. It is located on the edge of a wooded area, and most stones are fallen and/or broken.

The cemetery is located in Clay Township (SE quadrant of the SW quadrant of the NW quadrant of Section 26 Township 11N Range 8E) about 1700 feet north of E Vandalia Road (W County Road 240 NW) about 0.5 miles east of its intersection with N County Road 700 W.

Indiana Cemetery Locations, Volume 3, published by the Indiana Genealogical Society (April 2007), gives the primary cemetery name as Salem 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-16-20 (Heaton) and with Cemetery Record Number CR-16-28 (Salem Cemetery).

The Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory (IHSSI) survey number for Heaton Cemetery is 031-211-15055 with the dataset compiled in 1999.

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