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The cemetery is known in local folklore including the story of Stiffy Green, a taxidermied dog buried in his owner's tomb who was said to bark periodically, and of Martin Sheets, who was convinced he would be buried alive and thus installed a telephone inside of his tomb with a direct line to the
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in 1893 for a cost of $ 10,000. In the 1980s, the chapel underwent renovation which was completed in March 1988. Highland Lawn also includes a
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built by the Heidenreich Company in 1894, a gateway arch completed by Edward Hazledine and a Colonial rest house designed by W.H. Floyd.
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Terre Haute, Indiana
Coordinates
39°28′35″N 87°20′52″W / 39.47639°N 87.34778°W / 39.47639; -87.34778
Find a Grave
Highland Lawn Cemetery
The Political Graveyard
Highland Lawn Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Richardsonian Romanesque
90001790
cemetery
Terre Haute, Indiana
Highland Lawn Cemetery Chapel
Richardsonian Romanesque
Jesse A. Vrydaugh
bell tower
National Register of Historic Places
Ellen Church
Eugene Debs
Theodore Debs
Max Ehrmann
Courtland Gillen
Eva Mozes Kor
Juliet Peddle
Allen Pence
Everett Sanders
D. Omer Seamon
Valeska Suratt
Bud Taylor

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