There are nearly a thousand burials and memorials in the cemetery of Ware Church. Finding one relies on a system of family lot numbers and geographic sections.
The low lot numbers are along the southern border of the cemetery, starting in the southwest corner and running east. Then numbers increase from west to east as you move from row to row, south to north. The largest numbers are in the northernmost row, near the road entrance.
In a covered well house at the cemetery exit there is a map of the cemetery sections and a diagram of the cemetery. A list of graves, showing name, lot number and section, is available in a book there and also online.
Lots are assigned to sections this way:
| section | lots |
|---|---|
| APVA | 148-150, 156, 168, 162, 163 |
| Northwest | 153-166 |
| West | 110-115,121-153 |
| Southwest | 7-12, 22-26, 39-43, 55-60, 74-78, 92-96 |
| South | 13-16, 27-30, 44-48, 61-66, 79-84, 97-103 |
| Southeast | 500-799 |
| Memorial Garden | 300-499 |
| Churchyard | 211-299 |
| Churchfloor | 200-210 |
The oldest graves are under the Church floor, and inaccessible.
The next oldest graves are in the Churchyard, within the wall that surrounds the Church.
Tombstones that have been moved from family graveyards are in the APVA section, which is the northernmost part of the Northwest section.
As you enter the cemetery from the Church parking lot you are headed straight toward the APVA section, which is on the outside of the road. After the road curves to your left, you enter the Northwest section, on both sides of the road. When you have the west Churchyard wall on your left you are within the West section. When you pass the southwest corner of the Churchyard wall, you enter the Southwest section which extends on the right side of the road to the woods and on the left side of the road to the imaginary extension of the line of the west Churchyard wall. The remainder of the cemetery within and around the road is the South section.
At the third turn of the circular road, a road goes across a ravine into the Southeast section (the "new" section). Here is also the walled Memorial Garden.