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Ward Chapel Cemetery, Martin County, Indiana
Ward Chapel Cemetery is located on Crane Naval Depot, the Crane Division of the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC). map Twenty-eight others cemeteries are located here and are cared for by the Public Works Directorate at Crane. NSWC is a relatively high security area and is not open to the general public. The Center's main gate is at the intersection of State Roads 45 and 58. Arrangements must be made at the Public Affairs Office for a pass prior to visiting the cemetery:
Commander Code 052 (Public affairs)
Naval Surface Warfare CEnter Crane Div
300 Highway 361
Crane, IN 4752-5001
or by calling the Public Affairs Office at (812) 854-1495.
Source: Martin County, IN: Crane Index; https://sites.rootsweb.com/~inmartin/crane.htm
Martin County and Crane
The United States Department of Agriculture proposed in the late 1930's the White River Project for portions of Martin county with sub-marginal farm land and low living standards. 32,000 acres of the poorest land in Martin county were purchased for the project of restoring its forest productivity and creating a state park. Forest Creek was dammed to create the 800 acre Lake Greenwood and picnic areas were developed.
With the war already in progress in Europe, Congress passed early in 1940 the first supplemental National Defense Appropriations Act, for new inland ammunition production facilities. One of the facilities to be built was the Navy Ammuniton Depot (NAD) at Burns City, Indiana on the site of the White River Project. It was orginally named Naval Ammunition Depot but the name was changed in 1943 to Naval Ammunition Depot (NAD) Crane, in honor of Commodore William Montgomery Crane,. He was the Navy's first Chief of the Bureau of Ordinance. Due to the changing nature of the mission of the site, the name was changed in 1975 to Naval Weapons Support Center (NWSC), Crane. During the on-going Department of Defense Re-organization in 1992, Crane was merged with the Naval Ordinance Station at Louisville, Kentucky and became known as the Crane Division of the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC). Today the site covers 62,465 acres, about 1/3 of Martin County and small portions of Greene, Lawrence and Daviess counties. Approximately 48,563 acres are timberland, part of the Hoosier National Forest. -- Source: Martin County, IN: Crane Index; https://sites.rootsweb.com/~inmartin/crane.htm
Note: This information was not prepared by NSWC Crane, the U.S. Navy nor the Department of Defense. They are not in any way responsible for its content or accuracy.
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We visited Martin County, Indiana in June 2007 and attempted to locate the cemetery. After several inquiries we discovered Wards Chapel Cemetery was on a military base. We proceeeded to the military base and talked to the guard stationed at the gate. We were told that ever since 9/11, restrictions on visiting the cemetery on the base had become much more stringent. They no longer allowed people to visit the base on Memorial Day and a pass was required to visit it at any time.
Cemetery Sign
Photo by WLC
Robert & Lettice (Bigley) McCullough are buried in the front row closest to the road, possibly a little to the left of the photo. Robert was the uncle of my great grandmother, Sarah Ann (McCullough) Capehart.
Lettice "Lettie" (Bigley) McCullough
b. Mar. 7, 1826 -- d. Oct. 28, 1889
Wife of Robert McCullough
Robert McCullough
b. Sep. 5, 1824 -- d. Oct. 27, 1876
Husband of Lettice "Lettie" (Bigley) McCullough
Uncle of Sarah Ann (McCullough) Capehart
my great grandmother
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Robert & Lettice "Lettie" (Bigley) McCullough gravemarkers
Robert's gravemarker is to the right of Lettice's gravemarker
Photo by Jim Bohn
Photo by Jim Bohn
Photo by Jim Bohn