Miller Cemetery

The cemeteries were originally owned and operated by the two churches in town, the First Presbyterian of New Gretna (Miller Cemetery) and St. Paul’s Methodist (Hillside Cemetery).

Over the years the churches had difficulties maintaining the cemeteries and a group of concerned citizens with old New Gretna family roots got together in the early 1920’s and formed an organization to maintain the cemeteries. They called the group the New Gretna Old Home Society because New Gretna was their old home.

Their purpose was to maintain the cemeteries and to gather once a year on Memorial Day to keep the old family ties alive and to honor the veterans in the New Gretna cemeteries.