Steuben Township, Warren County, Indiana
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Steuben Township is one of 12 townships in Warren County, Indiana. It was created in March 1834 from a section of Pine Township ("all of Pine Township south and west of Redwood Creek") and was the seventh township to be formed.
Its area is approximately 40 square miles, most of which is given over to agriculture. In the southeast there is approximately one mile of frontage on the Wabash River. The north and west portions are mostly open prairie and excellent farmland, whereas the south and east portions are more hilly and wooded.
Steuben Township contains the towns of Johnsonville, Marshfield and Sloan. The town of Chesapeake no longer exists, but was the first town in Steuben Township, about two miles southeast of present-day Marshfield; the first meetings of the township trustees were held there in the 1830s.
The township was named in honor of Baron Von Steuben, a Prussian soldier who fought for the Americans in the Revolutionary War.
There have been at least 15 cemeteries and burial sites in Steuben Township. Some still exist, but many have been destroyed by nature or by people (in many cases having been farmed over). These include Tillotson Cemetery (destroyed), Cronkhite Cemetery (destroyed), Jordan Cemetery (destroyed), Sisson Cemetery, Tomlinson Cemetery, High Cemetery (destroyed), Redwood Point, Payne Cemetery, Lyons Cemetery, and the Irish Catholic Cemetery.
