Conway/Kessinger Cemetery, Henry County, Indiana

Data contributed by Jim Cox and presented here with permission.

This cemetery is located on the Marvin Luellen farm, next to the Wilbur Wright road, in section #35 in Blue River Township. Richard Conway a veteran of the Revolutionary War originally started this cemetery in the early 1840s with the burial of his first wife Polly Watson Conway.

Indiana Cemetery Locations, Volume 2, published by the Indiana Genealogical Society (01 April 2006), gives the primary cemetery name as Kessinger Cemetery with alternate names of Conway Cemetery and Macedonia 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-33-4 (Kessinger MEC / Conway / Macedonia / Kessinger Methodist Episcopal Church). The Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory (IHSSI) survey number for Kessinger Cemetery / Conway Cemetery is 065-451-05046 with the dataset compiled in 1992. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) feature ID for the cemetery is 2745826 (Kessinger Cemetery).