Madison Township Cemeteries

COLE FAMILY CEMETERY

page 1, Madison Twp. Cemeteries
Located in SE 1/4, Section 12, T1N, R2E. (10.6 miles from the Courthouse)
Directions: From the Courthouse, go north on N. Main St. 0.2 miles to the intersection of SR 56, turn left, go 7.3 miles to the intersection of West Washington School Road, turn left, go 2.0 miles to the intersection of Cole Hollow Road, turn right, go 1.1 miles to the Cole Family Cemetery. The cemetery is located on the left (south) side of Cole Hollow Road, approximately 50 yards south of the road.

HARDIN CEMETERY

page 2, Madison Twp. Cemeteries
Located in SE 1/4, Section 23, T1N, R2E. (15.5 miles from the Courthouse)
Directions: From the Courthouse, go north on N. Main St. 0.2 miles to the intersection of SR 56, turn left, go 10.4 miles to the intersection of the Hardinsburg-Livonia Road, turn left, go 2.6 miles to the intersection of Posey Chapel Road, bear to the right, go 1.4 miles to the intersection of Hobbs Road, turn left, go 0.9 miles to Hardin Cemetery. The cemetery is on the right (east) side of the road.

JOHN HARDIN CEMETERY MARKER

page 3, Madison Twp. Cemeteries
Located in SW 1/4, Section 11, T1N, R2E. ( miles from the Courthouse)
Directions: From the Courthouse, go north on N. Main St. 0.2 miles to the intersection of SR 56, turn left, go 10.4 miles to the intersection of the Hardinsburg-Livonia Road, turn left, go 1.4 miles to the John Hardin Cemetery marker. The marker is on the left (east) side of the Hardinsburg-Livonia Road. This grave does not exist today. Simmons Cemetery is on the right side of the road a little to the south.

LIVONIA CEMETERY

page 6, Madison Twp. Cemeteries
Located in NW 1/4, Section 3, T1N, R2E. (11.2 miles from the Courthouse)
Directions: From the Courthouse, go north on N. Main St. 0.2 miles to the intersection of SR 56, turn left, go 10.9 miles to the intersection of Jefferson St., in the Town of Livonia, turn left, go 0.1 miles to Livonia Cemetery. The cemetery is on the south side of town.

POSEY CEMETERY

page 68, Madison Twp. Cemeteries
Located in SW 1/4, Section 13, T1N, R2E. (13.1 miles from the Courthouse)
Directions: From the Courthouse, go north on N. Main St. 0.2 miles to the intersection of SR 56, turn left, go 9.4 miles to the intersection of the Possum Hollow Road, turn left, go 0.5 miles to the intersection of Vincennes Trail, bear right, go 2.9 miles to the Posey Community Church, turn left, go 0.1 miles to the Church and Posey Cemetery. The cemetery is behind and to the east of the church.

PROVIDENCE CEMETERY

page 77, Madison Twp. Cemeteries
Located in SW 1/4, Section 28, T1N, R2E. (18.7 miles from the Courthouse)
Directions: From the Courthouse, go north on N. Main St. 0.2 miles to the intersection of SR 56, turn left, go 10.4 miles to the intersection of the Hardinsburg-Livonia Road, turn left, go 2.5 miles to the intersection of McCullough Road, turn right, go 1.4 miles to the intersection of Locust Grove Road, turn left, go 3.0 miles to the intersection of Providence Hill Road, turn right, go 1.2 miles to Providence Cemetery.

SIMMONS CEMETERY

page 87, Madison Twp. Cemeteries
Located in NE 1/4, Section 10, T1N, R2E. (12.0 miles from the Courthouse)
Directions: From the Courthouse, go north on N. Main St. 0.2 miles to the intersection of SR 56, turn left, go 10.4 miles to the intersection of the Hardinsburg-Livonia Road, turn left, go 1.4 miles to Simmons Cemetary. The cemetery is on the right (west) side of the Hardinsburg-Livonia Road. It is approximately 100 feet from the road in the middle of an agricultural field. The cemetery is about 100 yards north of the intersection of the Hardinsburg-Livonia Road and Gypsy Ridge Road. This is a small cemetery that cannot be seen from the road if the field is planted in corn.

SINKING SPRING CEMETERY

page 88, Madison Twp. Cemeteries
Located in SE 1/4, Section 15, T1N, R2E. (13.1 miles from the Courthouse)
Directions: From the Courthouse, go north on N. Main St. 0.2 miles to the intersection of SR 56, turn left, go 10.4 miles to the intersection of the Hardinsburg-Livonia Road, turn left, go 2.4 miles to the intersection of McCullough Road, turn right, go 0.1 miles to Sinking Spring Cemetery. The cemetery is located on the left (south) side of McCullough Road. It is fenced and lies about 100 feet from the road.

WIBLE CEMETERY

page 95, Madison Twp. Cemeteries
Located in NW 1/4, Section 4, T1N, R2E. (13.0 miles from the Courthouse)
Directions: From the Courthouse, go north on N. Main St. 0.2 miles to the intersection of SR 56, turn left, go 12.4 miles to the intersection of Bridgewater Road (on the left), turn left, go 0.3 miles to a farm lane, turn left, go 0.1 miles to the residence. The Wible Cemetery is located on a small knoll about 100 yards north-northeast of the residence. Ask at the house.It is fenced and lies about 100 feet from the road.

Photo of John Milton HayWho was John Hay?

Statesman, Author, Ambassador

John Hay was a great American statesman, diplomat, author and poet, whose political career spanned over 50 years.  He was born in a small brick home in Salem, Indiana, on October 8, 1838.

After John displayed considerable potential in his schooling, his Uncle Milton Hay, who was a practicing lawyer in Springfield, Illinois, took a special interest and sent him to Brown University, where he graduated in 1858. 

In 1860, when John Hay’s childhood friend, John Nicolay, was appointed Abraham Lincoln’s presidential campaign secretary, he was brought on board to assist with the enormous amount of correspondence. 

Hay grew to adore President Lincoln for his goodness, patience, understanding, sense of humor, humility, magnanimity, healthy skepticism, sense of justice, resilience and power, love of the common man and mystical patriotism. Many later noted that Lincoln too, loved Hay as a son and was very attached to him.

In 1903, after years of negotiating treaties, Hay successfully passed legislation that afforded the United States the opportunity to start construction on the Panama Canal. 

Brown University’s John Hay Library was named in his honor, as was the John Hay Air Base, in the Philippines and both his birth home, in Salem, Indiana and his summer estate, The Fells, in New Hampshire, have been historically conserved. 

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