Knight Ridge Cemetery in Salt Creek Twp
Location: Surrounds Knightridge Pentecostal Church
3775 Knightridge Road, Bloomington, IN 47401

This large cemetery, which includes approximately 1200 graves, was established in 1888 and is maintained by the Trustees of the Knightridge Cemetery Association.  The area is presumably named after the Knights, a local family, and includes 18 Knight graves.  An Elementary school was established across the road in 1840’s and closed in 1967 according to the Monroe County Retired Teachers’ Echoes From One-Room Schools, Monroe County Indiana.  This volume contains a photo of the school including some of the headstones in the Cemetery.  Salt Creek Cemetery now occupies the site of the school.

The Knightridge Cemetery includes graves of several veterans of the Civil War, Spanish American War, Mexican War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War.  George Brummet, James Burcher, Jesse Deckard, Nathan Hill, Elias Lawyer, George Pate, Henry Pate, and John G. Shields are listed as Civil War veterans in County Cemeteries of Monroe County. A memorial to all the veterans as pictured below.

Thanks to the assistance of the Knightridge Cemetery Sexton, Shorty Hawkins, the Monroe County History Center has a copy of the “map” of the cemetery with names. It is in three sections and we hope to transcribe it in the future. 

The cemetery is filled with beautiful tombstones including a unique one of pink sandstone.  Also quite impressive are several locally produced headstones that clearly are hand craved. 

Read more about this cemetery at the Monroe County History Center’s Genealogy Library. Also See:
County Cemeteries of Monroe County, 1998 and Echoes from One Room Schools, Monroe County, p. 282-290.  2006.

For more information about Monroe County Cemeteries, consult the Cemetery Files at the Genealogy Library at the Monroe County History Center or contact the Cemetery Committee at genealogy@monroehistory.org. 

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