North side of East Notestine Road (State Route 101) less than 0.1 mile from Fahlsing Road, it is on the left side of the road at the second “S” curve in State Route 101.
Started in 2005. Fenced with a small storage shed on the property. It is in good condition. DAR information on the burials in this cemetery was supplied by the cemetery caretaker in May 2010.
Cemetery Walks: Diehl Cemetery & Saylor Cemetery Woodburn, Indiana July 2, 2024Darus Eifler on YouTube A walk around two cemeteries in North East Indiana today. Diehl Cemetery & Saylor Cemetery in Woodburn, Indiana. Bother cemeteries border the Maumee River though there is no river access that I could find. Diehl Cemetery also borders a golf course. Saylor Cemetery is on a Dead End Road (no pun indented but acknowledged) adjacent to farm fields. Oddly enough Diehl Cemetery was full of the surname 'Sweet' and 'Saylor' but I didn't see any 'Saylor' in Saylor Cemetery.
Saylor Cemetery is down the dead end gravel Scipio Road near 25701 US 24, the Street View photo is from Google maps
Near 7790 Scipio Road, 0.2 mile north of U.S. 24 and the old Wabash-Erie Canal. A small 19th-century cemetery near the Ohio border. The Scipio Road Bridge no longer crosses the Maumee River.
The first death was that of John D. Saylor, son of Ulrich Saylor, Sr. He died in 1836, and was buried near the State line, on land set apart by Solomon Swisher for cemetery purposes.
Earliest date 1861, about 50 headstones including Civil War veterans. Not in use. IN DNR Latitude 41.1619 Longitude 84.8117 puts you in the field just south of the tombstones.
Built near the home of Ulrich Saylor, a Maryland native who arrived in Maumee Township in 1836 and bought a lot near the Wabash & Erie Canal lock No. 1, the eastern most lock. He built a store and post office at the site and later became the lock's chief operator. Visitors can see remanants of the canal on the south side of U.S. 24. See map and history with photos in the 8 page Ulerick Saylor, Sr. b. 1788 d. June 27, 1860 by Carolyn I. Schmidt in Canawlers At Rest in the Hoosier Packet - August 2013 at the Canal Society of Indiana.
Saylor Cemetery
The allure of Saylor Cemetery, a small, 19th-century graveyard near the Ohio border, is in its ties to the Wabash and Erie Canal.
The cemetery was built near the home of Ulrich Saylor, a Maryland native who arrived in Maumee Township in 1836 and bought a lot near canal lock No. 1. He built a store and post office at the site and later became the lock’s chief operator.
At the lock, known as Saylor’s Lock, boats were raised or lowered seven feet as they moved up to the summit at Fort Wayne or down as they traveled toward Lake Erie, Allen County historian Tom Castaldi said. Visitors to the cemetery can see the remnants of the canal on the south side of U.S. 24.
The cemetery, which sits above the south bank of the Maumee River, has about 50 headstones, some of which belong to Civil War veterans. At least one of Saylor’s relatives is buried in the cemetery.
Elliot, of the History Center, says the Saylor Cemetery is one of his favorites. “It’s got a melancholy feel to it,” he says. “It has this ‘going back in time’ kind of feeling.”
According to some accounts, the brown, two-story house on the northwest corner of U.S. 24 and old Scipio Road was once an inn for the canal’s travelers. If visitors follow a wooded path toward the river, they can see the remnants of an old bridge that crossed the Maumee.
To get there: Take U.S. 24 east until you see Scipio Road on your left. Take a gravel road for two-tenths of a mile, and the cemetery will be on the right. If you’ve hit the state line, you’ve gone too far.
