Place:Arcadia Cemetery, Arcadia, Hamilton, Indiana, United States

Arcadia Cemetery is located immediately east of the town of Arcadia, Hamilton County, Indiana, USA.

Address: E 266th Street, Arcadia, Indiana, USA

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History of The Church of the Brethren and Arcadia Cemetery

The Church of the Brethren at Arcadia was organized in 1836. Elias Caylor was a bishop, assisted in the ministry by Joseph McCarty and William Pierce. They held meetings in school houses and dwellings and the love feasts in barns until 1866, when the present church house was built, a half mile east of Arcadia. J.M. Perry, G.W. Bowser and James H. Hill also assisted in the ministry. In 1907 the house was remodeled. In 1885 Elias Smeltzer was elected to the ministry. In 1893 James Hill and Elias Smeltzer were ordained bishops. Elias Smeltzer has presided over the congregation nearly all the time since then, free of charge. In 1866 the annexed cemetery was platted and now contains about twelve hundred graves.

Source: Hains, John F. History of Hamilton County, Indiana: her people, industries and ..., 1915, Vol 1, p 309.