Elizabethtown is a tiny berg with a little over 500 residents near Columbus, Indiana. The Springer Cemetery is about a mile and a half from town. The first burial was of George Springer in 1857.
The pretty chapel in the cemetery
Civil War veteran and wife
An Indiana Civil War veteran with military headstone
Springer Cemetery is filled with Civil War vets among the other civilians resting here in this small country cemetery. The chapel lends a feeling of spiritual calm and memory of those resting here.
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The chapel is cute, and some of the people lived very short lives, God bless them. Thank you for sharing this. 🙏🏻❤️
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You’re most welcome, John. Life spans were certainly short back in the 1800’s.
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Marvelous and touching. Thank you.
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Glad you enjoyed it Nan. Thanks for visiting and commenting.
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Beautiful history. Thank you for sharing.
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So glad you enjoyed! Thank you.
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Cemeteries are fascinating, filled with history.
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This one has lots of vets, lots of Civil War, Indiana and Ohio regiments.
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Have been curious for as long as i can remember about this cemetery… nice to see this quaint article… would have most certainly loved to see some inside views of the chapel, whether they were worth seeing or not. really just wanted to say Thank You….
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Thanks, sally. We would have loved to see inside the chapel, too, but alas it was locked up tight. There are many interesting graves and stones in this cemetery.
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My mother , father, grandma, grandpa several uncles & aunts are resting at this cemetery.
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Thank you for sharing. It is a beautiful cemetery.
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Springer Cemetery Chapel was built sometime n the 1950’s. My father, the late Duane M. Padgett of Westport laid the stone on the structure. He was known for his decorative round stonework. He was proud of that building. I don’t know of a better example of his work.
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It is certainly excellent masonry. He was right to be proud of this work, as are you I’m sure. Thank you for sharing this history.
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