Middlebury Martz Cemetery in Clay City, Indiana

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Get directions Indiana State Highway 59
Clay City, Indiana 47841 United States

Coordinates: 39.26159, -87.12003
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Martz Cemetery is located on the east side of Indiana Highway 59, just south of Clay City, Clay County, Indiana. It was also once known as the Middlebury Cemetery.

"The cemetery was laid out by Thomas Gillaspie, and is said to have been the first place consecrated to the burial of the dead in Clay County." From: History of the Counties of Clay and Owen by Charles Blanchard, 1884, page 191.

Indiana Cemetery Locations, Volume 4, published by the Indiana Genealogical Society (April 2009), gives the primary cemetery name as Martz Cemetery with an alternate name of Middlebury 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-11-34 (Herb Miller / Middlebury).

The Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory (IHSSI) survey number for Middlebury Martz Cemetery / Herb Miller Cemetery is 021-113-46012 with the dataset compiled in 1997.