This cemetery is located inside the Indiana Army Ammunition Plant in Charlestown, Indiana on 17th Street. The site is surrounded by a dry-stack (mortarless) stone fence and is heavily wooded.

Because there are so many trees inside the cemetery, the leaves on 11/29/97 were at least ankle deep. Nevertheless, Caldwell Cemetery was still lovely, the stones seeming to sprout from the sea on brown, dry leaves.

There are no Caldwells buried here; the persons buried here are named LUTZ and PRATHER. (Caldwell was the name of the property owner circa 1940 when the property was acquired by the federal government for the purpose of constructing the ammunition plant.)

The following is an index of Caldwell Cemetery that I abstracted in 1996, which has been supplemented by the efforts of Jeanne Burke during our 11/29/97 tour of the ten cemeteries inside the Plant:

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BOTTORFF        Elizabeth Lutz (dau-

                ghter of David &

                Catherine Lutz; wife

                of John Bottorff)       b. 12/27/1805   d. 09/24/1866



BOTTORFF        John, husband of

                Elizabeth Lutz Bottorff b. 08/06/1802   d. 10/07/1854



LUTZ            Andrew Jackson (14 yr.,

                4 mos., 3 days)         b. 11/13/1829   d. 03/16/1844



LUTZ            B. F. (Lieut.; son of

                George Lutz)            b. 09/06/1834   d. 04/18/1862



LUTZ            Catharine (64 yrs., 9

                mo., 9 days; wife of

                David Lutz)             b. 03/09/1778   d. 12/18/1842



LUTZ            David (59 yrs, 11 mo.,

                29 days)                b. 09/27/1773   d. 09/22/1832



LUTZ            David B. (son of John

                & Barbary Lutz; 21

                yrs., 5 mos., 24 days)  b. 1831         d. 3/19/1853



LUTZ            George                  b. 09/12/1810   d. 10/02/1896



LUTZ            Henry (son of David &

                Catharine Lutz)         b. 04/30/1800   d. 09/27/1864



LUTZ            Henry Marion (age 17

                years, 3 mos., 3 days)  b. 11/14/1831   d. 02/17/1848



LUTZ            Jennings (aged 6 years,

                5 mos.)                 b. 12/15/1835   d. 05/15/1842



LUTZ            Samantha                b. 07/15/1847   d. 08/16/1868



LUTZ            Sarah Royer (wife of

                George Lutz)            b. 02/14/1806   d. 02/20/1888



PRATHER         Catherine Lutz (dau-

                ghter of David &

                Catherine Lutz; wife

                of Sion Prather)        b. 12/12/1812   d. 04/23/1887



PRATHER         Sion William, husband 

                of Catherine Lutz

                Prather; son of Judge

                Samuel Prather and

                Edith Ann ("Edey")

                Holman; grandson of

                Basil William Prather

                and Clorender

                (Chlorinda) Robertson   b. 10/01/1810   d. 11/23/1862



PRATHER         Edy Catherine (4 yrs.,

                4 mos., 24 days; dau-

                ghter of Sion &

                Catherine Prather)      b. 1839         d. 05/10/1843

UNKNOWN         Infant daughter of      ????            d. 1836

                Sarah J. _______