Fall Creek Township

Location: east side of SR 67, south of I-69

    The Seybert Cemetery is a good example of how a respect for the past can co-exist with the needs of the present.  This family burial ground is now located in the middle of the IMI stone quarry.  Among the huge piles of rock, sand, and dirt is a small bouquet of green trees marking the presence of the graveyard.  The MCCC's fence, gate, and sign are also important reminders to the busy caterpillars and loaded dump trucks swirling around that people "rest" inside.  IMI management has always been co-operative with commissioners and viewers, but one is advised to go to the IMI office before attempting to negotiate the "heavy" traffic.

    The Seybert family is listed in Harden's The Pioneer as early farming settlers to Fall Creek Township.  Nicholas Seybert is specifically mentioned as being born in Virginia, and his gravestone indicates that his birth took place around 1800.   After coming to the Fall Creek area, he was a county commissioner and died at sixty-four years of age in 1864.  Also in the same small family graveyard are the older relatives James, who died in 1842 at sixty-one years old, and Ruth, who died in 1849 at seventy-three years old--strong minded people who came in their forties and fifties to set up a new home.