Walnut Hill Cemetery is a
cemetery
A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park or memorial garden, is a place where the remains of many death, dead people are burial, buried or otherwise entombed. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek ...
in
Petersburg, Indiana
Petersburg is a city within Washington Township and the county seat of Pike County in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 2,304 at the 2020 census.
Petersburg is part of the Jasper Micropolitan Statistical Area.
History
Petersburg ...
, less than a mile south of the lower portion of the
White River. It is sometimes called Walnut Hills Cemetery.
Notable people interred there include
George H. Proffit (1807–1847),
Arthur H. Taylor (1852–1922),
Francis Blackburn Posey (1848–1915) and
Walter E. Treanor.
In 1913, a "Soldiers' and sailors' monument" was erected in Walnut Hill Cemetery, dedicated to the memory of service members from
Pike County, Indiana
Pike County is a county in the southwest portion of the U.S. state of Indiana. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 12,250. The county seat is Petersburg. It contains the geographic point representing median center of US po ...
who served in the
American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861May 26, 1865; also known by Names of the American Civil War, other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union (American Civil War), Union ("the North") and the Confederate States of A ...
.
[''Historical Markers and Public Memorials in Indiana'' (1929), p. 78.]
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* {{GNIS, 445433, Walnut Hill Cemetery
Cemeteries in Indiana