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Charles Grier Burial at Antioch Cemetery

New Richmond, Indiana8560 IN-1651 min readFile amended Directions

A historic site in New Richmond, Indiana, a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing, Charles Grier Burial at Antioch Cemetery is filed here for what the record attaches to it. NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad. It sits in the archive under dark history, Underground Railroad history and the Underground Railroad. The dossier holds 3 documented facts — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. The site is open to visitors.

Archive note: 4 conflicting records
Status
Operating
Designation
National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing
Coordinates
40.194, -86.978 · Approximate (city centroid)
County
Gibson

NPS public listing access field: Yes. This is a listing snapshot; current arrangements still require confirmation.

Is Charles Grier Burial at Antioch Cemetery haunted?

No claims are filed here — the record keeps this place for its documented history, not for a haunting on file.

The record — long form

Grier is the '15 — the 'Vincennes land office' that's the bought 40, the 'before statehood' that's the Indiana. The '600' is the helped — the 'Keziah' that's the wife-partner, the 'into old age' that's the worked. The 'risked' is the owned — the 'loss of freedom' that's the could lose, the 'free Black' that's the conductor.

The 'weeping willow' is the stone — the 'words buried' that's the grass-covered, the 'church gone' that's the knoll. The 'Lyles Station' is the legacy — the 'still farming' that's the descendants, the '1850s' that's the settled same land. Grier is the earliest — the 'first Black landowner' that's the Gibson County, the '1782' that's the born into a slaveholding nation.

The file keeps Grier: the 1815 purchase, the 600 helped, the willow stone, and the farming descendants.

Charles Grier is the archive's Indiana file — the 600's grave.

Why this file matters

Charles Grier's burial is the archive's Indiana file — the founder's stone.

A grave keeps its numbers — the file's suggestion being that Grier's hold is the counted: the '40 acres' that's the 1815, the '600' that's the escaped, and the 'still farming' that's the unbroken line.

Two accounts on file

Place Type
On file

HISTORIC_SITE

Also reported

CEMETERY

Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite.

Short Description
On file

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

Also reported

The conductor’s grave—where Grier rests.

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Historic Designation
On file

National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing

Also reported

NPS Network to Freedom

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Research Notes
On file

Government-registry discovery record, unique ID 38IN01, source row 599. Inclusion concerns slavery, freedom-seeking and resistance history; no haunting is inferred. City, coordinates and detailed history are not inferred from the name. The source Year Established field is not treated as year built/opened.

Also reported

UGRR enrichment wave 3; VERIFY task auto-queued.

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Documented history

  • NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' documents the entry. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.

    Verified historyNational Park Service
  • Charles Grier Burial at Antioch Cemetery is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The record appears in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.

    Verified historyNational Park Service
  • Grier’s work is documented. A documented site gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that record. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. Sources including 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' carry the record. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry. The file stays open on it.

    Verified historyNational Park Service

Sources on file

Field notes & open questions

Government-registry discovery record, unique ID 38IN01, source row 599. Inclusion concerns slavery, freedom-seeking and resistance history; no haunting is inferred. City, coordinates and detailed history are not inferred from the name. The source Year Established field is not treated as year built/opened.

"Charles Grier Burial at Antioch Cemetery." HauntHunt dossier 1045, https://haunthunt.com/place/charles-grier-burial-at-antioch-cemetery-indiana/ (file amended October 2, 2026).

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