Green Hill Cemetery - GPS Walking Tour in Bedford, Indiana

Green Hill Cemetery
Walking Tour
1202 18th Street ♦ Bedford, Indiana

Walking Tour of Green Hill Cemetery. Enjoy this self-guided walking tour of Green Hill Cemetery. Your smartphone (and Google Maps) will lead you to gravesites of several prominent Lawrence County residents. You will also visit nationally recognized monuments and elegant stone artwork, carved from native Lawrence County limestone. To begin the tour, park near the cemetery entrance and click on "view map" to navigate to each stop.

Historic Green Hill Cemetery

Stop #	Name	Date	Photo	Location
1.	Eugene B. Crow	1970		view map
2.	Moses Fell Dunn	1915		view map
3.	George Grundy Dunn, Jr.	1891		view map
4.	George Grundy Dunn, Sr.	1857		view map
5.	Moses Fell	1840		view map
6.	Foote Family	1832		view map
7.	Joseph Rawlins	1885		view map
8.	Samuel Short	1884		view map
9.	Fred Otis	1945		view map
10.	Joseph Stillson	1885		view map
11.	Franklin Houston	1884		view map
12.	Pruett Family	1908		view map
13.	Michael Wallner	1940		view map
14.	Dr. Benjamin Newland	1889		view map
15.	Thomas Box	1914		view map
16.	Dr. Joseph Gardner	1919		view map
17.	Eva Lou Gaussin	1894		view map
18.	William Ragsdale	1917		view map
19.	Archibald C. Voris	1911		view map
20.	Ruel W. Steele	1992		view map
21.	Stone Cutters Monument	1894		view map
22.	Johnny Casper	1886		view map
23.	Lewis Baker	1917		view map
24.	Matilda Benzel	1899		view map
25.	Paolini Family	1865		view map
26.	Harley Pope	1919		view map
27.	Winton Hanner	1949		view map
28.	Tom Barton	1937		view map
29.	Lemon Mausoleum	1903		view map
30.	Voris Mausoleum	1892		view map
31.	Corbin Family	1960		view map
32.	Frank Arena	2001		view map
33.	Bill Rariden	1942		view map

Navigating with your smartphone. By clicking on "view map" or "view map location" from this website, Google will display a map and identify each grave location with a colored marker. When Google displays this map, press the "show your location" icon

to plot your current location as you walk.

Maps can be optionally configured to display satellite views of the cemetery by pressing the "menu" icon

within Google maps.

Most tombstones can be found within 4-5 feet of the colored marker on your map. Latitude and longitude data was recorded with ±15 foot (worst-case) accuracy.

If you don't have a smartphone, print a copy of the map and take it with you on the tour.

Satellite Map of Tour

Green Hill Cemetery Burial Records and Maps. Search the digital archive of records and download maps showing lot numbers and locations .... more.

Museum for Tombstone Tourists. Many of the monuments located at Green Hill are exquisite pieces of art. Watch this video about the unique limestone carvings here.

Restoring History. A well-known monument at Green Hill Cemetery received a makeover .... more.

More than 30 different styles of limestone tree stumps found here.

One Man's Fight to Preserve History in Green Hill Cemetery
Green Hill Historical Marker Project is using Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite navigation and internet technology to locate historical sites in the cemetery .... more.

If Tombstones Could Talk. Enjoy this video of reenactors portraying some of Bedford's prominent citizens buried in Green Hill Cemetery.

Another Leaner Gets Straight. In 1894, the parents of a 7-year old girl commissioned this unique tree stump monument to memorialize her life .... more.

Limestone Carvings in Green Hill. Watch this video highlighting limestone carvings on the walking tour.

Historic Green Hill Cemetery

Green Hill Burials on Find-A-Grave. The Find-A-Grave website allows you to create a memorial for your loved one. Most pages contain a headstone photo. Use the search box below to locate an archived memorial.