Highland Lawn also has the records for Woodlawn -- at least they did about 3 years ago
when I was there on a research trip.
MaryBeth
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From: lmitch
To: INVIGO-L(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 7:27 PM
Subject: [InVigo] Highland Lawn and Woodlawn Cemtery info
Recent postings led me to think a couple of pieces of info might help some on this
list:
1. The Vigo County Public Library has two books of Woodlawn Cemetery burials.
V. 1 covers 1839-1899 and V. 2 covers 1900-March 1983
Woodlawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana : index of burials Special
Collections Reference Book, 929.577245 L
2. Someone gave contact info for Highland Lawn cemetery, one of the two largest in the
Terre Haute area. Highland Lawn has a web site which includes some Woodlawn Cemetery
info, including a diagram of the cemetery and as I recall a general map of Highland Lawn -
which is huge, well huge compared to most cemeteries around here. The opening screen has
nice photographs of both cemeteries.
www.highlandlawn.com
Once you click on it, there are links to other searches. You still CANNOT get online
info on individual graves, except for "Notables" buried at Highland Lawn. BUT,
the staff are VERY helpful and over the phone can look for a name and tell you where they
are buried in Highland Lawn. I'm not sure about Woodlawn records - there are two
books at the library that list old burials in Woodlawn - that's how I found my
great-grandfather's sister, buried around 1880. St. Joseph's, the Catholic part,
for older records, is not available. Those records were kept at Calvary cemetery years
ago and they had two different fires in the house/office which destroyed them. So burials
done after those records were destroyed might have records, but older burials in the
Catholic part/St. Joseph's, are not available for older burials. I know this because
I called Highland Lawn last week to ask about someone buried there in 1899 in the St.
Joseph part.
Some of the links available are:
Contact Information
Highland Lawn Cemetery
Woodlawn Cemetery
Photo Galleries
Available Grave Space
Vigo County Cemeteries
Area Funeral Homes
Area Monument and Burial Vault Companies
There are also some emails available: - Roxanne and Sarah are the people to contact for
information about records in general .
General office(a)highlandlawn.com
Superintendent lennie(a)highlandlawn.com
Clerk roxeanne(a)highlandlawn.com
Assistant sarah(a)highlandlawn.com
Laura Mitchell,
Terre Haute
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