Old Baptist Cemetery

Old Baptist Cemetery is located in Bearcreek Township, Bryant. The cemetery is also known as Bear Creek Cemetery or Bear Creek Amish.

The current listing is taken from the information on the previous Jay Co Burials page. Updated with information from tombstone photographs and county histories.
Capitolized last names have a biography attached. Click on the First name to read the bio.

If anyone knows the history of the cemetery or anyone buried here, please get in touch with Jim Cox.

Thanks to Jim Cox for the photographs taken fall 2016!

Updated 9/28/2018
Old Baptist Cemetery
Last Name First Name (Maiden) Birth Date Death Date Spouse
Marriage Date 		Parents Military Obit Photo
BUFORD Edward 1841 Julia A Goodrich - 5/31/1822 War of 1812 scout
Byrd Caroline 2/19/1849 5/18/1875 A J photo
Byrd Even J 2/23/1837 8/24/1863 Civil War Co G 100th Reg IN Vol
Byrd Hannah 1839 5/10/1862 Even J photo
Byrd Infant photo
Byrd Mary E 5/4/1866 9/21/1870 A J & C photo
Byrd William E 4/30/1862 7/25/1862 E & H photo
Dynes Frances M 5/3/1856 7/18/1925 Harriet J Kiger -1882; Mary Jane Goodson - 1893 photo
Dynes Infant son 6/29/1896 6/29/1896 Frances M & M J photo
Dynes Viola May 9/1/1911 9/14/1912 Frances M & M J photo
Fifer Abraham 1/15/1794 4/2/1857 Lydia Fry - 7/30/1813 photo
Fifer Lydia (Fry) 3/2/1794 10/26/1871 Abraham - 7/30/1813 photo
Fifer Mary 2/7/1875 photo
Goodson Sally (Armantrout) 7/21/1835 2/21/1924 Bennet - 3/2/1867 Charles & Susanna Michael Armantrout photo
McCroskey Mary Isabelle (Byrd) 9/17/1873 4/9/1915 photo
McCroskey Unknown 1871 1915
More Benjamin B 1853 1868 A & E J photo
More Martha C 11/24/1857 4/12/1863 A & E J
Sibery John W 1/10/1832 3/3/1862 Sarah Jane Whiteman photo
Whiteman Christian 1/1/1838 6/24/1861 Henry & Sarah Wilson Whiteman photo
Whiteman Henry 6/5/1809 3/7/1864 Sarah Wilson - 9/2/1830 photo
Whiteman James Wilson 2/4/1833 7/22/1908 Phidelia Antles - 11/13/1859 Henry & Sarah Wilson Whiteman photo
Whiteman Phidelia 9/25/1841 8/4/1907 James W photo
Whiteman Sarah (Wilson) 9/8/1811 9/25/1874 Henry - 9/2/1830 photo
Whiteman Susannah Natalie 2/16/1866 9/2/1868 James N & Margaret I Jay Whiteman photo
Wilson Anna 1830 1864 s/s Stephen L photo
Wilson Cassius M 8/24/1856 11/25/1857 Lorendus & Ann Glentzer Wilson photo
Wilson Ella V 9/30/1854 9/20/1855 Lorendus & Ann Glentzer Wilson photo
Wilson Mary Ann "Anna" 10/21/1830 1/12/1864 Stephen L - 6/17/1849 John & Nancy A Kappes Glentzer photo
Wilson Stephen Lorendus 1827 1909 Suel photo
Wilson Suel 5/7/1789 7/17/1857 Esther Burnett - 1815


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