Shady Cemetery, Adams County, Indiana

Shady Cemetery is a public cemetery in Kirkland Township, Adams County, Indiana on the north side of CR 500 N, 0.25 mile east of CR 700 W. This small cemetery of twelve short rows has the earliest burial date of 1844 recorded on a stone and it is still active. A chain link fence surrounds the cemetery on three sides. Six large trees border the gravel county road; three on either side of a wrought iron gateway, which is at the entrance to a grassy drive that divides rows nine and ten. This cemetery reading was done in July 1998 and the list was compared with the 1956 DAR reading and, in some instances, using the relevant WPA data. More information and photos of some tombstones can be found here. The cemetery can be found by the following legal description: S4 T27N R13E. The GPS coordinates for the cemetery are: 40° 48' 57"N 85° 03'59"W.

This data was contributed by Thomas Liby and reformatted by Margie Roop Pearce & Jim Cox. It is used here with permission.