Historical Information

Glen Cove Cemetery is comprised of “old” and a “new” sections, and it includes plenty of area to accommodate future burials. The old public graveyard, established in 1838, consists of 3.5 acres. The southernmost part was originally a Baptist graveyard established sometime between 1835 and 1849, but today there is no longer any physical division or even suggestion of the older Baptist graveyard, the public and the denominational graveyards having seamlessly merged.

The cemetery's “new” section, named Glen Cove, was established in 1886 by the local Odd Fellows Lodge No. 99. Glen Cove is an active cemetery with approximately 22,000 graves on its 51 acres. Originally designed by two professional landscape architects, Glen Cove Cemetery beautifully expresses the values of the picturesque Rural Cemetery Movement.

In 2019, the old and new portions of the Glen Cove Cemetery that are developed and have graves marked by headstones were placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

For additional information, please visit the Glen Cove Cemetery information page at Knightstown.in.