Mount Pleasant Emancipation Cemetery
Mount Vernon, Posey County, Indiana, USA
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Get directions Southeast of Intersection SR 69 and Division Street (Holler Road)
Mount Vernon, Indiana 47620 United StatesCoordinates: 37.90580, -87.94466 - Cemetery ID:
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With other cemeteries in Posey County referenced as some form of Mount Pleasant Cemetery or Bethel Cemetery, the name "Mount Pleasant Emancipation Cemetery" is used to distinguish from them and to underline the significance of this cemetery as the final resting place for many persons recently emancipated by the Civil War from slavery. Included are soldiers who served the Union Army in the United States Colored Troops, notably from Kentucky but also freemen from southwestern Indiana and southeastern Illinois. In 2016 the cemetery was reported to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology, as the "Mount Pleasant Emancipation Cemetery".
PLEASE NOTE: The cemetery is located in close proximity to an industrial facility along the Ohio River. Access is understood to be subject to authority of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and governed by its "Small Vessel Security Strategy". Advance permission is needed before seeking entry to the cemetery.
With other cemeteries in Posey County referenced as some form of Mount Pleasant Cemetery or Bethel Cemetery, the name "Mount Pleasant Emancipation Cemetery" is used to distinguish from them and to underline the significance of this cemetery as the final resting place for many persons recently emancipated by the Civil War from slavery. Included are soldiers who served the Union Army in the United States Colored Troops, notably from Kentucky but also freemen from southwestern Indiana and southeastern Illinois. In 2016 the cemetery was reported to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology, as the "Mount Pleasant Emancipation Cemetery".
PLEASE NOTE: The cemetery is located in close proximity to an industrial facility along the Ohio River. Access is understood to be subject to authority of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and governed by its "Small Vessel Security Strategy". Advance permission is needed before seeking entry to the cemetery.
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Mount Vernon, Posey County, Indiana, USA
- Total memorials7
- Percent photographed43%
- Percent with GPS0%
Mount Vernon, Posey County, Indiana, USA
- Total memorials7
- Percent photographed86%
- Percent with GPS0%
Mount Vernon, Posey County, Indiana, USA
- Total memorials991
- Percent photographed87%
- Percent with GPS6%
Mount Vernon, Posey County, Indiana, USA
- Total memorials1
- Percent photographed100%
- Percent with GPS100%
- Added: 18 Sep 2016
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2623116
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