Unused for nearly one hundred years, this old burying ground is uncared for an in a high state of decay. Many stones appear to be missing. It is located on a center line drawn between the two lower halves of section 18, township 9, range 5. It is very near a line drawn between sections 18 and 19. John Cable, an Elder of the German Baptist Church, came to Miami County between 1812 and 1814 and settled in Newberry Township near the site of this cemetery. It was his intention to have a church built on the site, however, this never materialized and the Church was built several miles on up the creek and is now known as the Harris Creek Church of the Brethren. At one time, a road ran from what is now (1979) State Route 48 just north of Covington, westward down to the Stillwater River. This road lay half way between the Covington-Bradford Road and Klinger Road, but it was actually the eastern extension of what is now Klinger Road. This long forgotten road led to a ford on the Stillwater River where it crossed just north of the mouth of Harris Creek. From here it passed the grist mill built by Noah Davenport in 1815 and winding northwest up the valley along the millrace came to the Cable cemetery where it made a right angle and passed north several rods to end on what is now Klinger Road. The cemetery lies high on a bluff overlooking Harris Creek on its south.

Inscriptions taken on 15 July 1977 by Joseph H. Bosserman and compared against a list taken on 27 April 1975 by Don Bowman.

BOGGS, Melvina, w/o Aaron, d. 27 Jan. 1883, age 70y 8m 10d  nee Hitt
   Aaron, d. 23 Oct. 1872, age 57y 11m 8d
RASER, Nancy, w/o J., d. 2 Jan. 1852, age 42y 6m 15d
WYSONG, Susannah, w/o Jacob, d. 2 May 1859, age 67y 11m 7d
CABLE, Abraham, d. 17 Jan. 1855, age 23y 13d
YERTY, Ester, w/o Jacob, d. 1 April 1873, age 64y 4m 29d
McCLUNE, Walter E., s/o I.W. & & S., d. 10 Sept. 1873, age 11m 18d
HAY, Elizabeth, w/o Abraham, d. 28 May 1855, age 42y 23
   Abraham, d. 1851, age 36y
   Joseph, d. 1840
   Malinda, d/o A. & E., d. 22 Feb. 1842, age 3y 6m 14d
   John, d. 15 Feb. 1845, age 60y 16d
BOGGS, Marion, s/o A. & M., d. 17 June 1861, age 19y 7m 23d
HOUSER, Mary Ann, w/o A., d. 10 May 1852, age 24y 4m 13d
HAY, infant s/o D. & S. J., d. age 3m (no date) | s/s
   Daniel, d. 6 July 1880, age 67y 4m 14d       | s/s
CABLE, Joseph, s/o J. & A., d. 23 May 1830, age 8m 3d
CRICK, Margaret, d. 15 March 1862, age 81y 2m 8d
   John, d. 13 Aug. 1847, b. 15 Nov. 1781
   Sarah A., d/o Peter & Elizabeth, d. 1 Jan. 1851, age 6y 27d
CABLE, Abraham H., s/o J. & S., d. 18 July 1872, age 18y 5m 18d
   Almina, d/o J. & S., d. 11 Sept. 1862, age 5m 19d
   Martin, s/o J. & S., d. 15 Sept. 1841, age 3y 7m 2d
YERTY, Jacob, d. 5 Feb. 1868, age 65y 3m 22d
   Catharine, d. 19 Feb. 1868, age 37y 10m 7d
CABLE, Nancy A., w/o Elder John Cable, d. 27 Jan. 1872, age 75y 1m 17d
   John, d. 27 Aug. 1863, age 75y 3m 25d
ESHELMAN, Isaac L., d. 31 Jan. 1873, age 73y 3m 26d
ULLERY, George, h/o Elizabeth, d. 2 March 1855, age about 28y
DEETER, Mary J., w/o Daniel D., d. 14 Aug. 1892, age 38y 11m 3d

From the size of this cemetery, it appears as many as half of the stones could be missing. As most of the stones are down and appear to have been "tossed about" no exact order could be listed. There are several field stones, both standing and down.

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