Friendship Cemetery in New Albany, Indiana

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Get directions Grant Line Road
New Albany, Indiana 47150 United States

Coordinates: 38.37283, -85.81187
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The name for this cemetery has taken a nearly full circle. It was first known as the Six Mile Switch Cemetery (since the railroad's "6-mile switch" is just down the road), then sometime around 1913, it began to be known for the little white church that was built on the property of the Friendship United Brethren Church Cemetery. When the church united with the Evangelicals, around 1946, the cemetery became the Friendship EUB Church Cemetery. Next in the 1960s the church grew and moved south on Grant Line Road and in 1968 united with the Methodist Church and the cemetery became the Grant Line United Methodist Church Cemetery. Unfortunately, the church closed around 2013 and within a year or so, the trustees of the cemetery changed the name back to honor the original church, and the cemetery is now known as the Friendship Cemetery.

Indiana Cemetery Locations, Volume 4, published by the Indiana Genealogical Society (April 2009), gives the primary cemetery name as Friendship Cemetery.
The cemetery is listed in the Cemetery and Burial Grounds Registry of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and in the State Historical Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD) with Cemetery Record Number CR-22-92 (Friendship United Brethren Church / Six Mile Switch / Friendship Cemetery / Grant Line United Methodist).
The cemetery is identified as cemetery number 40 (Friendship) in "The Indiana Southern Counties Collection: Floyd County Cemeteries", Southern Indiana Genealogical Society (c) 1982.