Soldiers of 1812 Cemetery

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Soldiers of 1812 Cemetery, Green Township, Randolph County, Indiana home

Just north of the Mississinewa on state road 1, where Dinner Creek crosses the road, is the site of the graves of three soldiers of 1812, Jesse Benton, Thompson Carnahan, and Salem Peyatt. A memorial is being built there at the present time. Alwyn Carder’s family, for three generations, has kept the site marked and his working with a Preservation Society to get this memorial set, and to erect information signs. Please do not venture into the woods there the ground is dangerous and is the cause of these soldiers' deaths.

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the markers are in the corner of the woods, below is Dinner Creek, so named by the soldiers who stopped there to eat dinner on their way to or from the War of 1812 Battle of the Mississenwa, the River you can see here that it flows into here on the left.

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