Have you ever visited the site?
If you said, “No.” We would be amiss if we didn’t recommend that you went to Find A Grave and checked it out.
Find a Grave began in 1995 as a website by Jim Tipton to document the graves of famous people and evolved into a large, volunteer-driven genealogy resource. It was acquired by Ancestry.com in 2013 and is now a free, collaborative site with over 226 million memorials containing burial and final disposition information contributed by millions of users worldwide.
Following this lead, the Indiana Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans decided in October 2025 to develop it’s very own presence on the site. The purpose is to document literally hundreds and possibly thousands of graves belonging to Confederate veterans who are buried in Indiana.
This is important for preservation of the memory of the veterans, to honor them by maintaining their graves and augmenting their memorial pages with accurate information. Our goal is to give as many as we can a story. Who they were and why they fought. What made them come to Indiana after the war?
The power of Find A Grave lies in the vast number of contributors.
One of the IN SCV members recently spoke with another Find A Grave member who shared a story about finding a death notification in a family bible. The IN SCV member’s 2nd Great Uncle was a Sergeant and part of his job was writing death notifications for those soldiers in his company. One of his young soldiers was “pinced down” (mortally wounded) on the Seven Pines battlefield in Virginia. The Sgt. wrote the notification the day after the 17 year old Private died. 160 years later, a descendent of that young soldier’s mother found that letter. He found the IN SCV member through Find A Grave and actually held a conversation with the Sergeant’s descendant. How cool is that?
