tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56911241194661672272024-03-18T00:21:44.810-04:00Exploring Almost Forgotten Gravesites in the Great State of OhioExploring Almost Forgotten Gravesites in the Great State of Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782311455322231548noreply@blogger.comBlogger2290125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5691124119466167227.post-49835637217196961422024-03-17T01:06:00.000-04:002024-03-17T01:06:27.855-04:00Clean Up Floral Hills Memory Gardens Most Recent Announcement for an upcoming public meeting at the Ross County, Ohio Court House - March 21 2024 - 4:30p.m. till 7:00p.m.<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Sharing this announcement posted on the "Clean Up Floral Hills Memory Gardens" Facebook Page on March 17, 2024. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></div><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><div style="text-align: center;">Sadly, although coming the closest ever to achieving an agreement with Huntington Township in Ross County to accept and assume responsibility and ownership of Floral Hills Memory Gardens, any agreement to do so fell apart before the end of 2023. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Thus, leaving this Active and public cemetery in its decade+ long limbo that it has been stuck in through no fault of its own. </div><div style="text-align: center;">This situation directly impacts lot owners of course and truly anyone who visits and cares about this cemetery! </div><div style="text-align: center;">*****</div><div style="text-align: center;">There have been several posts per year appearing on this blog alone; as well as those by newspaper and TV reporters from many central Ohio news outlets about the plight of Floral Hills Memory Gardens in Ross County, Ohio bringing greater public awareness to this situation and alerting them that other cemeteries in Ohio could end up in the same or similar situation.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> ***** </div></span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><div style="text-align: center;">This cemetery is now, in my estimation, Ohio's longest Abandoned yet Active Cemetery in the state - having no legal owner to maintain it or Register it with the State of Ohio for close to 13 years! </div><div style="text-align: center;">This sad predicament should<i> never</i> happen to any Active Cemetery in Ohio. </div><div style="text-align: center;">*****</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJVYD84YzuMoKlzz1nPQkW0P6JRikwHZ4t5zAEGXELWBTfd1gjMRtxmkoVCLrrIVFUbZNpWD-SEBO4-L_U0lugwXQ3VFPEmVk1XhbkI4lvUwhUKVqQUpudQoCyzMysUYvaIdmN3f5Q7YUeqgOYN6EN8RrejKZEZvXQrD-u7J4bcpXjCtNNnrV0i_ENqKc/s1074/FLORAL%20HILLS%20MEMORY%20GARDENS%20-%20MARCH%2017%202024%20-%20MEETING%20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="460" data-original-width="1074" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJVYD84YzuMoKlzz1nPQkW0P6JRikwHZ4t5zAEGXELWBTfd1gjMRtxmkoVCLrrIVFUbZNpWD-SEBO4-L_U0lugwXQ3VFPEmVk1XhbkI4lvUwhUKVqQUpudQoCyzMysUYvaIdmN3f5Q7YUeqgOYN6EN8RrejKZEZvXQrD-u7J4bcpXjCtNNnrV0i_ENqKc/w400-h171/FLORAL%20HILLS%20MEMORY%20GARDENS%20-%20MARCH%2017%202024%20-%20MEETING%20.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">*****</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b><span style="text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"Anyone interested in a Public Meeting in an Auditorium complex with PowerPoint presentation to show what is happening with Your Cemetery? </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b><span style="text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This is the amount of paperwork filed with the Clerk of Courts since Dec 20th, 2023 (shown on the cemetery's Facebook Page) in an attempt to get $54,566.07 of Your Cemetery’s money. </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b><span style="text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I think the public needs to be aware of what is going on. </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b><span style="text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This needs to be Specifically in a Public forum with actual Discussions with the public and a truthful Question & Answer period. </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b><span style="text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Let those </span><span style="text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a style="cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span style="text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;">who know inform you…and you Will Not need a lawyer to be heard! </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b><span style="text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;">All money in the Trusts should only be allowed to go to Huntington Twp. so Your Cemetery has the best chance of Survival, Growth & Improvements."</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700;"><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/40882/floral-hills-memorial-gardens" target="_blank">Here is the Floral Hills Memory Gardens in Ross County on Find a Grave for further reference</a>. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></div></span><p></p>Exploring Almost Forgotten Gravesites in the Great State of Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782311455322231548noreply@blogger.comRoss County, OH 45601, USA39.3294895 -83.0595422999999911.019255663821156 -118.21579229999999 67.639723336178847 -47.90329229999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5691124119466167227.post-56557624844274994762024-03-14T11:33:00.000-04:002024-03-14T11:33:14.355-04:00Sharing a Call for Volunteers to help in Cuyahoga County to complete scanning projects of several types of cemetery records including W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps.<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Sharing from Homer Taft of the Early Settlers Association of the Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio.:</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"We have with volunteers through <a href="https://mscf1841.org/" target="_blank">Monroe Street Cemetery Foundation</a> completed scanning many record books of <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/42187/monroe-street-cemetery" target="_blank">Monroe Street Cemetery</a>, with over a Terabyte of data produced with a view to making maps, lot layouts, and all interment records publicly available soon. </span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>We have now obtained records for:</i></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/846556/erie-street-cemetery" target="_blank">Erie Street</a>, <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/40531/denison-cemetery" target="_blank">Denison</a>, and <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/40043/brookmere-cemetery" target="_blank">Brookmere</a> Cemeteries, the other oldest Cemeteries, for scanning. </span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">These represent perhaps another 30-40 hours of volunteer time to scan.</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Once these are completed, we can move on to some larger projects including.:</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/44165/woodland-cemetery" target="_blank">Woodland</a>, <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/41314/harvard-grove-cemetery" target="_blank">Harvard Grove</a>, <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/39621/alger-cemetery" target="_blank">Alger</a>, <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/44050/west-park-cemetery" target="_blank">West Park</a>, and <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/41411/highland-park-cemetery" target="_blank">Highland Park</a>. </span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There are also many other local cemeteries with records that could be scanned.</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large; text-align: start;">*************</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In addition, we are working at obtaining scans of the fragile <a href="https://limesstones.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html" target="_blank">WPA maps of veteran graves</a> at <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/search?cemetery-name=&cemetery-loc=Cuyahoga+County%2C+Ohio%2C+USA&only-with-cemeteries=cemOnly&locationId=county_2057" target="_blank">all Cuyahoga Cemeteries</a> so they can be put on line.</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Also, are discussing getting online access to all, including the oldest, Probate Court records that are a gold mine for genealogy.</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If we try to do this with our first 8 volunteers who have been trained in the high speed, large format equipment at <a href="https://cpl.org/" target="_blank">Cleveland Public Library</a>, it will likely take many years, perhaps the lifetimes of the mostly retired who are helping. </span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">We could very much use help from another 16 or more. </span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If we were to achieve even 20 hours a week of scanning, with average sessions of 4 hours and one volunteer session a month, we'd need 22 folks to do just the 8 Cleveland Cemeteries in one year.</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>There are also many tasks past scanning. </b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>These need to be put through an AI-OCR process to index and translate the records that requires at least one human eye on every resulting entry to assure accuracy and correct incorrect entries from the transcribed records.</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>*************</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>So we are asking for your help and for recruitment of folks you know who may be interested. </b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>With many more hands and eyes, we may be able to make these records available publicly in a year or so. </b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large; text-align: start;">*************</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>The first step is a training session on the equipment and records to know how to properly handle which takes about 2 hours for every group of up to 4 people at Cleveland Public Library. </b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Then individuals schedule sessions with the large format scanner and continue the book being scanned until finished."</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~*</span></b></p><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; outline: none !important;"><div dir="ltr" style="outline: none !important; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Homer S. Taft</b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="outline: none !important; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064756204260" target="_blank"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Early Settlers Association of the Western Reserve</b></span></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="outline: none !important; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Monroe Street Cemetery Foundation<br style="outline: none !important;" /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="outline: none !important; text-align: center;"><a class="o_h J_x mq_CZ G_e r_BN C_Z281SGl S4_n ac_CI rtlI_dz_sSg" data-test-id="contact-card-email" style="align-self: flex-start; cursor: default; direction: ltr; outline: none !important; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap; word-break: keep-all;" title="hstaft@yahoo.com"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>hstaft@yahoo.com</b></span></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="outline: none !important; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000; font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://www.earlysettlers.org</span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="outline: none !important; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000; font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="outline: none !important; text-align: center;"><div dir="ltr" style="outline: none !important; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">The Early Settlers </span><span style="font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">Association of the </span><span style="font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">Western Reserve</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">P.O. Box 39291</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">Solon, Ohio 44139</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="outline: none !important; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>https://www.earlysettlers.org/contact-us.html</b></span></span></div></div></div><div class="I_ZkbNhI D_FY W_6D6F" data-test-id="message-view-body" style="display: table; orphans: 2; outline: none !important; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; width: 920.251px;"><div class="msg-body P_wpofO mq_AS" data-test-id="message-view-body-content" style="line-height: normal; outline: none !important; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 2px 0px 0px; position: relative; word-break: break-word;"><div class="jb_0 X_6MGW N_6Fd5" style="outline: none !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 16px;"><div style="outline: none !important;"><div id="yiv5535840837" style="outline: none !important;"><div style="outline: none !important;"><div class="yiv5535840837yahoo-style-wrap" style="outline: none !important;"><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; outline: none !important; text-align: center; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="jb_0 X_6MGW N_6Fd5" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; outline: none !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 16px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></div></div>Exploring Almost Forgotten Gravesites in the Great State of Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782311455322231548noreply@blogger.comCuyahoga County, OH, USA41.7048247 -81.7787020999999913.394590863821158 -116.93495209999999 70.015058536178856 -46.62245209999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5691124119466167227.post-2630402045863796012024-03-10T11:23:00.001-04:002024-03-10T11:23:21.238-04:00Pike County, Ohio's W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps have been added to the right sidebar of the blog. <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; font-size: large;"> <b><span style="color: #660000;"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/limesstones/collections/72157722660346210/" target="_blank">Pike County W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps have been added to the right sidebar of the blog</a>. </span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b>This is a collection of the W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps for Pike County, Ohio. The maps exist at the Pike County Map office. </b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">The Pike County Recorder has the individual veteran's grave registration cards that are arranged alphabetically for each cemetery. </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">The townships of Pike County are.:</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Beaver</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b>Benton</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b>Camp Creek</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b>Jackson</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b>Marion</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b>Mifflin</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b>Newton</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b>Pebble</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b>Pee Pee</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b>Perry</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b>Scioto</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b>Seal</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b>Sunfish</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b>Union </b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>This Pike County W.P.A. Cemetery Map collection consists of maps that essentially are original drawings created early in the project with limited handwritten information in the Legend Box that is positioned at the bottom of a map page in the lower right-hand corner. The map pages are </b></span><b style="color: #660000;">numbered. </b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b style="color: #660000;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Unfortunately, only one of these map pages include the names of any of the veterans who were buried at any of the cemeteries in Pike County. </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">The page is:</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><i>WPA CEMETERY PLAT MAPS - PIKE COUNTY - SEAL TWP - MOUND CEM #2 - SECTIONS A & B & C & D & & L - COL JOHN GUTHERY REV. WAR VET - PAGE 72:</i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b style="color: #660000;"></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR1vKxca4HEwxnbZrqxj81_5r9tQpHjggsjzk0stB68DLyJ-AeaL5YO5h81HEFF14q7lE8F6r1o2TzwIxMYOchjF-q01Bi6JgFHdvz0kc8cRjalkT3-ZzjJiNJSjLoV4Ws_DKMfhoiKFoOAfOAdoJ7KeST4zQQJVR5W-B4Eymbq8nmKYQ1-Ag3gKcwXZQ/s10316/WPA%20CEMETERY%20PLAT%20MAPS%20-%20PIKE%20COUNTY%20-%20SEAL%20TWP%20-%20MOUND%20CEM%20%232%20-%20SECTIONS%20A%20&%20B%20&%20C%20&%20D%20&%20L%20-%20COL%20JOHN%20GUTHERY%20REV.%20WAR%20VET%20-%20PAGE%2072.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6946" data-original-width="10316" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR1vKxca4HEwxnbZrqxj81_5r9tQpHjggsjzk0stB68DLyJ-AeaL5YO5h81HEFF14q7lE8F6r1o2TzwIxMYOchjF-q01Bi6JgFHdvz0kc8cRjalkT3-ZzjJiNJSjLoV4Ws_DKMfhoiKFoOAfOAdoJ7KeST4zQQJVR5W-B4Eymbq8nmKYQ1-Ag3gKcwXZQ/w400-h269/WPA%20CEMETERY%20PLAT%20MAPS%20-%20PIKE%20COUNTY%20-%20SEAL%20TWP%20-%20MOUND%20CEM%20%232%20-%20SECTIONS%20A%20&%20B%20&%20C%20&%20D%20&%20L%20-%20COL%20JOHN%20GUTHERY%20REV.%20WAR%20VET%20-%20PAGE%2072.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>Lt. Col.</b></span> <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39647074/john-guthery"><b><span style="color: #660000;">John Guthery on Find a Grave</span></b></a> <b><span style="color: #660000;">buried at the top of the mound.</span></b></span></div><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000;">However, many of the maps do show the normal coffin-like symbols in the plot where a veteran was buried. </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000;">Example below.:</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #660000;"><b><i>WPA CEMETERY PLAT MAPS - PIKE COUNTY - MIFFLIN TWP - WASHBURN CEM - NO VETS NAMES - PAGE 85</i></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji9uw-V0zhDZJWJaqYh7WAmW9IU81wCwbFLAPDGZXiyNf39Vt9zjHuNUDM8m0TgkcNLMT-HNw34hBPW1jqE29qho2cR1bcNrKlE_BwgkRT9LLjL3dBRNBfg6NZzaWBnsblLeU3K371piNC6vjjy-syXX27EDApStZ3UAcUqylte3k6i9regz0pHaY1CVk/s9262/WPA%20CEMETERY%20PLAT%20MAPS%20-%20PIKE%20COUNTY%20-%20MIFFLIN%20TWP%20-%20WASHBURN%20CEM%20-%20NO%20VETS%20NAMES%20-%20PAGE%2085.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6734" data-original-width="9262" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji9uw-V0zhDZJWJaqYh7WAmW9IU81wCwbFLAPDGZXiyNf39Vt9zjHuNUDM8m0TgkcNLMT-HNw34hBPW1jqE29qho2cR1bcNrKlE_BwgkRT9LLjL3dBRNBfg6NZzaWBnsblLeU3K371piNC6vjjy-syXX27EDApStZ3UAcUqylte3k6i9regz0pHaY1CVk/w400-h291/WPA%20CEMETERY%20PLAT%20MAPS%20-%20PIKE%20COUNTY%20-%20MIFFLIN%20TWP%20-%20WASHBURN%20CEM%20-%20NO%20VETS%20NAMES%20-%20PAGE%2085.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">Close up view.:</span></b><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ9P8CQoLz48e10bYCGx5toEm8N_5ayXlrVHJHpWQIprrrz6mFl13DuwFyv0PUdF12LK7VkehR1YtMoIT-KOf1HKO8Kt__Fq1kgpxvoC3G3SPOMbFTm4xONL-38XBN7yzKwaLrEbMZVbXD7PefAjdvyzYB_wdZ7pK30Ig2xNJ9Z4S6E3bRA2YkFljHeyc/s6032/WPA%20CEMETERY%20PLAT%20MAPS%20-%20PIKE%20COUNTY%20-%20MIFFLIN%20TWP%20-%20WASHBURN%20CEM%20-%20NO%20VETS%20NAMES%20-%20PAGE%2085%20-%20CROPPED.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1927" data-original-width="6032" height="127" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ9P8CQoLz48e10bYCGx5toEm8N_5ayXlrVHJHpWQIprrrz6mFl13DuwFyv0PUdF12LK7VkehR1YtMoIT-KOf1HKO8Kt__Fq1kgpxvoC3G3SPOMbFTm4xONL-38XBN7yzKwaLrEbMZVbXD7PefAjdvyzYB_wdZ7pK30Ig2xNJ9Z4S6E3bRA2YkFljHeyc/w400-h127/WPA%20CEMETERY%20PLAT%20MAPS%20-%20PIKE%20COUNTY%20-%20MIFFLIN%20TWP%20-%20WASHBURN%20CEM%20-%20NO%20VETS%20NAMES%20-%20PAGE%2085%20-%20CROPPED.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000;"><b>~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~</b></b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000;">Unlike the W.P.A .Cemetery Plat Map pages in other counties, there is only one instance with a map page having mixed townships for the cemeteries. </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000;">Otherwise, it is uniform throughout with only one township name for any number of cemeteries on a page. </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000;">Below is the image of Page 1 that has one cemetery in Camp Creek Township and the remainder of the cemeteries are located in Sunfish Township.:</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #660000;"><b><i>WPA CEMETERY PLAT MAPS - PIKE COUNTY - CAMP CREEK TWP - MECHLIN CEM - SUNFISH TWP - ABBOTT CEM & MUSTARD CEM & RUSSELL CEM - NO VETS NAMES - PAGE 1</i>:</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike_County,_Ohio" target="_blank">Pike County is a rural county in Southern Ohio</a> and thus there are a great number of smaller size cemeteries that are located in it. Most cemeteries are on county or township roadways.</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Below are are some links regarding Pike
County, Ohio Cemeteries a</span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">s of February 25,
2024:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://sites.rootsweb.com/~ohpcgs/Townships/" target="_blank">The Pike County
Genealogical Society's listing of cemeteries organized under their respective counties.</a>:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery-browse/USA/Ohio/Pike-County?id=county_2105" target="_blank">Find a Grave Cemetery Listing for Pike County.</a>:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b><b style="color: #660000; font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://ohiogravestones.org/cemeteries.php?selected_cid=66" target="_blank"><span style="color: #660000;">Ohio Gravestones.org –Pike County cemeteries burial listing.</span></a></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000; font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b><b style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://ldsgenealogy.com/OH/Pike-County-Cemetery-Records.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #660000;">LDS Genealogy</span></a>.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.ohiogenealogyexpress.com/pike/pikeco_cemindex.htm" target="_blank">Ohio Genealogy Express - Pike County Cemeteries</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000;"><b><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></b></div>Exploring Almost Forgotten Gravesites in the Great State of Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782311455322231548noreply@blogger.comPike County, OH, USA39.0713471 -83.03613759999998910.761113263821152 -118.19238759999999 67.381580936178835 -47.879887599999989tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5691124119466167227.post-36166893182277422552024-03-08T21:22:00.002-05:002024-03-08T21:22:49.339-05:00Lake View Cemetery - Cleveland, Ohio - April 8, 2024 - "Angels in the Shadows" - The program ends prior to the total solar eclipse - $25.00 per person. A separate Total Solar Eclipse Watch Party follows for $50.00 per person. <p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Sharing this upcoming event announcement from Cleveland's <a href="https://www.lakeviewcemetery.com/" target="_blank">Lake View Cemetery</a>.:</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><div style="text-align: center;">https://www.lakeviewcemetery.com/events/2024/04/08/angels-in-the-shadows</div><div style="text-align: center;">********</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">"<span style="background-color: white;">Join photographer Ian Adams for a talk and demonstration on photography techniques and the effect of shadows during the Solar Eclipse.</span></span></b></div></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">This program will begin at Wade Pond, continue with a 1 mile walk on various terrain, and last approximately 90 minutes; the program will conclude prior to the Total Eclipse." - the cost is $25.00 per person.</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">There is a separate <a href="https://www.lakeviewcemetery.com/events/2024/04/08/total-eclipse-watch-party" target="_blank">Total Eclipse Watch Party</a> that follows at Lake View Cemetery - the cost is $50.00 per person. </span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">"Join us at one of the highest points in Lake View for this multi-sensory experience - watch the moon eclipse the sun, hear the wildlife go quiet, and feel the energy shift around you. Eclipse glasses will be available for attendees to safely view the total eclipse, generously provided by the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">VIP Experience</span> – You can be one of the first to enjoy the newly reopened upper terrace of the James A. Garfield Memorial with the VIP Experience special seating to watch the eclipse unfold. </span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">VIP Experience tickets are $50 per person, get yours before this exclusive experience sells out! The upper terrace is accessed by circular staircase, please wear appropriate footwear."</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">This event begins at 2:30pm, eclipse totality begins at 3:15pm.</span></b></em></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">***********************</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Below are this author's October 6, 2020 photographs of the Garfield Monument at the Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland after it was professionally cleaned. </span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; 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font-size: large;"> <b><span style="color: #660000;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/GreenLawnCemeteryColumbus" target="_blank">Green Lawn Cemetery on Facebook</a></span></b>.:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b><span style="text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"Does your company, church or organization need a meaningful volunteer service opportunity? </span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b><span style="text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;">With over 6000 veterans laid to rest in 7 military sections at </span><span style="text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x1ejq31n xd10rxx x1sy0etr x17r0tee x972fbf xcfux6l x1qhh985 xm0m39n x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg xo1l8bm" href="https://www.facebook.com/GreenLawnCemeteryColumbus?__cft__[0]=AZVNwTqnbWiHcxTFzY3ytskjmiMPu6ozC53KY1uCl-8LGsoZR_a0y76SdDcLtEjBvPS9CZUuqcV_LQs2davOwmjwsyfHHhInaT2VYhCc4NJQMvyOQPKYPlf4jlZoO3YTQmPm9bAgTJX89efOzG9gv6Zorf4nGxN1wlch00skmnObWPX2VlQVUoI_pQHSXJI2ARI&__tn__=-]K-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0"><span class="xt0psk2" style="display: inline;">Green Lawn Cemetery</span></a></span><span style="text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, we rely on the generosity of volunteers to give their markers the gentle cleaning they deserve. </span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b><span style="text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;">We provide all supplies, cleaner, and instruction on how to safely and effectively do the job! </span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b><span style="text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Contact us at 614-444-1123 to schedule your volunteer event. Groups of 10-20 people are ideal."</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b><span style="text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b><span style="text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://www.greenlawncemetery.org/" target="_blank">Green Lawn Cemetery Association</a></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><span style="text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: times; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">info@greenlawncemetery.org</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><span style="text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000; font-family: times;"><span style="text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/109024/green-lawn-cemetery" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Green Lawn Cemetery on Find a Grave</span></a></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><span style="text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxV1UC6wkx6J9mEnmKOjTxA6eGnA7Nhw4LPHH-rxmBMqavBcwQ8PsecG_o3ChyMI8-iVSS75pcrevScekxjZKDrvxiDjrC8BBWMuXW9gFMOajAWgb76U2JQXLHpChqccS-zDDlGXrz7X3hLyq7JWum0Hvl_h5cuhtZYlNblKNZDPY6e_MmQzuRA1x1hLY/s2816/GREEN%20LAWN%20CEMETERY%20-%202006%20-%20VETERAN%20SECTION%20LOOKING%20TOWARD%20COLUMBUS.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1643" data-original-width="2816" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxV1UC6wkx6J9mEnmKOjTxA6eGnA7Nhw4LPHH-rxmBMqavBcwQ8PsecG_o3ChyMI8-iVSS75pcrevScekxjZKDrvxiDjrC8BBWMuXW9gFMOajAWgb76U2JQXLHpChqccS-zDDlGXrz7X3hLyq7JWum0Hvl_h5cuhtZYlNblKNZDPY6e_MmQzuRA1x1hLY/w400-h234/GREEN%20LAWN%20CEMETERY%20-%202006%20-%20VETERAN%20SECTION%20LOOKING%20TOWARD%20COLUMBUS.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></div><b style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></div></b><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE17t9CnvEgZoqXg2DPX6autk7m-CFwCtzt9SMDcLGBn14qcYmvNt6lRPm12q2sxRWyYqCdVEjJ_8GWQtOj5eybj7U67cIPvaN9DhIdDyvW968WxiC395e6RdtpIf39VAHHo47yhwAPqs92oiypuer6YXPwntA7bb32XEjH6MIE9Djt-e171zAQsRCd3E/s3177/GREEN%20LAWN%20CEMETERY%20%20-%20A%20MOMENT%20IN%20TIME%20-%201998%20-%20HANGING%20SIGN%20PHOTO%20BY%20LINDA%20JEAN%20ELLIS.jpg" style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3177" data-original-width="2501" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE17t9CnvEgZoqXg2DPX6autk7m-CFwCtzt9SMDcLGBn14qcYmvNt6lRPm12q2sxRWyYqCdVEjJ_8GWQtOj5eybj7U67cIPvaN9DhIdDyvW968WxiC395e6RdtpIf39VAHHo47yhwAPqs92oiypuer6YXPwntA7bb32XEjH6MIE9Djt-e171zAQsRCd3E/w252-h320/GREEN%20LAWN%20CEMETERY%20%20-%20A%20MOMENT%20IN%20TIME%20-%201998%20-%20HANGING%20SIGN%20PHOTO%20BY%20LINDA%20JEAN%20ELLIS.jpg" width="252" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><span style="text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></p>Exploring Almost Forgotten Gravesites in the Great State of Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782311455322231548noreply@blogger.comColumbus, OH, USA39.9611755 -82.99879419999999211.650941663821158 -118.15504419999999 68.271409336178849 -47.842544199999992tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5691124119466167227.post-63892764032931322552024-03-04T00:47:00.003-05:002024-03-04T23:57:38.562-05:00Sharing news of an upcoming presentation to be given by Mr. Paul LaRue - Monday, March 18, 2024 - 7:00p.m. entitled.: "Sam Lucas and Uncle Tom's Cabin" - 101 E. East Street Evelyn Pentzer Meeting Room (Center for Economic Opportunity Building) Washington Court House, Fayette County, Ohio<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">This presentation is being hosted by the Fayette County Genealogical Society - a Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Please see the details provided in the poster below for the program's details.: </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdE2mZUR2aWaNMTZlR6rcPsSnlr7LPUCkuPrM-zDwdVAxMXB_YnWIldpq1oXfZ8agX7_r6zz8kdqLauw8-Kc_CqpAT8zLTfGULRhMABZMYntmYV4vwtbJVhX7yBC9poyJ2FpyQdQshIgmz7Zci5IuYEF11-TW679C5UP-qMFaB8z3rFkMGOmTJ8OCvSyI/s1059/paul%20la%20rue%20-%20fayette%20county%20genealogcial%20society%20-%20monday%20march%2018%202024%20-%20sam%20lucas%20-%20uncle%20tom's%20cabin%20.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1059" data-original-width="750" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdE2mZUR2aWaNMTZlR6rcPsSnlr7LPUCkuPrM-zDwdVAxMXB_YnWIldpq1oXfZ8agX7_r6zz8kdqLauw8-Kc_CqpAT8zLTfGULRhMABZMYntmYV4vwtbJVhX7yBC9poyJ2FpyQdQshIgmz7Zci5IuYEF11-TW679C5UP-qMFaB8z3rFkMGOmTJ8OCvSyI/w284-h400/paul%20la%20rue%20-%20fayette%20county%20genealogcial%20society%20-%20monday%20march%2018%202024%20-%20sam%20lucas%20-%20uncle%20tom's%20cabin%20.jpeg" width="284" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Lucas#cite_note-Nicholls-7" target="_blank">Sam Lucas</a></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/128908018/samuel-lucas" target="_blank"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Sam Lucas on Find a Grave</span></a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Mr. <a href="https://sboe.ohio.gov/about-us/board-members/01-president" target="_blank">Paul LaRue</a> is well known for his long career teaching at the high school in Washington Court House providing detailed programs that have brought about a greater awareness to the African American Civil War soldiers who were buried in Fayette County, Ohio. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Mr. LaRue has taken his classes on numerous field trips that include the marking of soldiers' graves. </span></b></div><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Below are links that offer further information about Mr. LaRue and his work.:</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.achp.gov/initiatives/paul-larue" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Advisory Council on Historic Preservation</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">*****</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">https://doughboy.org/ohios-black-world-war-i-sailors-forgotten-u-s-servicemen/</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">*****</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">https://www.ohiohistory.org/teaching-ohios-forgotten-heroes/</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">*****</span></b></div><p></p>Exploring Almost Forgotten Gravesites in the Great State of Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782311455322231548noreply@blogger.comWashington Court House, OH 43160, USA39.5373688 -83.43757911.227134963821157 -118.593829 67.847602636178848 -48.281329tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5691124119466167227.post-55587224268347877032024-02-23T10:47:00.001-05:002024-02-23T10:47:16.334-05:00Sharing a video from WOSU - PBS in Columbus, Ohio about memorializing ancestors & Green Lawn Cemetery in Columbus, Ohio <p style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Sharing <a href="https://www.pbs.org/video/memorialing-ohio-ancestors-kizlk6/" target="_blank">this video</a> from WOSU - PBS in Columbus, Ohio.</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1689/" target="_blank">Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks</a></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/109024/green-lawn-cemetery" target="_blank">Green Lawn Cemetery</a> in Columbus with over 150,000 interments, is mentioned in the video. </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.greenlawncemetery.org/" target="_blank">Green Lawn Cemetery Association</a></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/GreenLawnCemeteryColumbus/" target="_blank">Green Lawn Cemetery Facebook Page</a></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p>Exploring Almost Forgotten Gravesites in the Great State of Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782311455322231548noreply@blogger.comColumbus, OH, USA39.9611755 -82.99879419999999211.650941663821158 -118.15504419999999 68.271409336178849 -47.842544199999992tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5691124119466167227.post-30524434837849703492024-02-15T20:28:00.004-05:002024-02-15T20:51:22.691-05:00Sharing a recent video of Jason Church of the NCPTT - Cleaning Grave Markers with D2<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/wzKKKTGrU3g?si=lNamMPjwE75a5Tm_" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wzKKKTGrU3g/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe></div>Exploring Almost Forgotten Gravesites in the Great State of Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782311455322231548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5691124119466167227.post-91206072356228641892024-02-07T16:20:00.001-05:002024-02-07T16:20:34.178-05:00Sharing a link for viewing this "floating" monument - 3d image created by Eli Allen of "Wandering Appalachia" <p style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Hopefully this link works! </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">https://poly.cam/capture/FD0E2B7D-2672-4ED0-92CE-1E24B460D3B2</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Exploring Almost Forgotten Gravesites in the Great State of Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782311455322231548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5691124119466167227.post-81707672475866188022024-02-03T22:53:00.000-05:002024-02-03T22:53:36.630-05:00Atlas Preservation announces it's 2023 Restoration Contest Winners and Gravestone Restoration Services is among them! <div class="sc-iCfMLu eehqFj pf-4_ pf-r pf-r-eh" data-pf-type="Row" style="--s-xs: 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; margin: 0 calc(-1 * var(--s-xs)); text-size-adjust: none;"><div class="pf-c" style="--c-lg: 12; --c-md: 12; 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font-size: large;">"2023 Restoration Contest Winners!"</span></span></h3><h3 class="sc-hOGkXu NrNIR pf-6_" data-pf-type="Heading" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0em; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">"Below are the 21 winning entries for our 2023 Restoration Contest! </span></h3><h3 class="sc-hOGkXu NrNIR pf-6_" data-pf-type="Heading" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0em; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">We received 250+ entries in 6 different categories. </span></h3><h3 class="sc-hOGkXu NrNIR pf-6_" data-pf-type="Heading" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0em; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">This decision was not easy! </span></h3><h3 class="sc-hOGkXu NrNIR pf-6_" data-pf-type="Heading" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0em; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Winners in each category are proportional to entries received. Thank you so much for participating!"</span></h3><div style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b>Atlas Preservation held a contest and today announced its <a href="https://atlaspreservation.com/pages/2023-restoration-contest-winners?syclid=cmvc440klmts73djl2tg&utm_campaign=emailmarketing_152488509652&utm_medium=email&utm_source=shopify_email" target="_blank">winners</a>.:</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b>Included in the listing of those winning this contest for cleaning gravestones is Ohio's <a href="https://www.facebook.com/gravestoneservicesbykj" target="_blank">"Gravestone Restoration Services by Kate and Jane"</a> </b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b>Email address: </b></span></div><ul class="x1e56ztr" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px;"><li><div class="x1e56ztr x1gslohp" style="margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 4px;"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin-bottom: -5px; margin-top: -5px;"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b" style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto" style="display: block; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white;">grsbykj@gmail.com</b></span></span></div></div></div></li><li><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto" style="display: block; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~</b></span></span></li><li><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto" style="display: block; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=655776346661703&set=a.509965354576137" target="_blank">Thank You Letter from the City of Avon, Ohio.</a></b></span></span></li></ul><div style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><ul class="x1e56ztr" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><li><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto" style="display: block; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b>~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~</b></span></span></li></ul></div></div></div></div>Exploring Almost Forgotten Gravesites in the Great State of Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782311455322231548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5691124119466167227.post-41201107018769074162024-02-01T14:11:00.002-05:002024-02-01T14:11:11.623-05:00Sharing from Atlas Preservation - "Historic Pointing Mortar 101 - Resetting a Headstone Into a Slotted Base"<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/YjQuLB8VkZw?si=8jeD_2jyCYuZGLqV" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YjQuLB8VkZw/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe></div>Exploring Almost Forgotten Gravesites in the Great State of Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782311455322231548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5691124119466167227.post-51662950978515854422024-01-23T01:25:00.027-05:002024-01-25T15:05:06.889-05:00Taking a look at the discoid markers - AKA "ring headed Celtic" markers at the Old Burying Ground in Greenfield, Madison Township, Highland County, Ohio. <p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">The <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2247664/old-burying-ground" target="_blank">Old Burying Ground</a> sits on the West side of the gently flowing waters of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint_Creek_(Scioto_River_tributary)" target="_blank">Paint Creek</a> separating Greenfield, Madison Township, Highland County, Ohio and Buckskin Township of Ross County on the East side. </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Since 2014, this early to mid 1800s burial ground, where some of the town's pioneer settlers rest in peace, has become a most prominent place to be and witness the unfolding preservation progress that is so evident in this conservation project that I'm sure is the pride of Greenfield. </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">The landscape of cleaned, repaired, and re-set markers and monuments welcome visitors to linger awhile to read their epitaphs and marvel at the unique carvings of motifs and symbols as well as learn their names, dates of death, and their ages at death.</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">********* </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Thanking all of the dedicated volunteers who have worked to make this transformation possible! </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Those hearty souls are primarily from the <a href="http://www.greenfieldhistoricalsociety.org/" target="_blank">Greenfield Historical Society</a> who have been trained to properly clean, repair, and re-set the markers and monuments at their town's pioneer cemetery.</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Here we'll focus on three special white marble markers that are admittedly small in size but hold a mighty presence at the Old Burying Ground in Greenfield! </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">These markers were created in the distinctive discoid design not often seen at most Ohio cemeteries! </span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw_9-oNhhNmEb95vsRfyG2cm46hZKt4veKAc12a86uhIZ0UR6_sYzx-taDqAqy6gMrCsh1wPkNQcPq5R8c28nugbY70ptYqFHvh_5zI16s1Lmx_-9jUCwsWvF19PlSLFt1vEt44kZ83q8dGTciIboQDTAYaWULLv8lX6JfG6xBoqwKWm20RQDVY7ypNCU/s783/OLD%20BURYING%20GROUND%20-%20GREENFIELD%20-%20HIGHLAND%20CO%20-%20SEPTEMBER%2016%202016%20-%20DISCOID%20MARKERS.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="453" data-original-width="783" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw_9-oNhhNmEb95vsRfyG2cm46hZKt4veKAc12a86uhIZ0UR6_sYzx-taDqAqy6gMrCsh1wPkNQcPq5R8c28nugbY70ptYqFHvh_5zI16s1Lmx_-9jUCwsWvF19PlSLFt1vEt44kZ83q8dGTciIboQDTAYaWULLv8lX6JfG6xBoqwKWm20RQDVY7ypNCU/w400-h231/OLD%20BURYING%20GROUND%20-%20GREENFIELD%20-%20HIGHLAND%20CO%20-%20SEPTEMBER%2016%202016%20-%20DISCOID%20MARKERS.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>These rather rare <a href="https://georgethomsonlettering.wordpress.com/discoid-gravemarkers/" target="_blank">discoid</a> markers are sometimes referred to as "ring headed Celtic markers".:</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6eBVl42Yq-DIO-ol1ETu0bpR-6b4UDLEYwfWV-QE3ARucBDGYVFRmGJtfJ7ZyJj-gq60VLpKoOIoVaSw1pFu-16ciQeP1aqMmV9HZO1Ns53aeSTbEWYcW1zHbQiX8o4ZH2Cf7SRFCpAVcfQNOo8lTIGTsZq3XW_ej2PG12krSphhqY27beNSTtnH08HA/s1304/OLD%20BURYING%20GROUND%20-%20SEPTEMBER%2016%202016%20-%20CORDELIA%20DEPOY%20-%20CLOSE%20UP.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1304" data-original-width="1204" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6eBVl42Yq-DIO-ol1ETu0bpR-6b4UDLEYwfWV-QE3ARucBDGYVFRmGJtfJ7ZyJj-gq60VLpKoOIoVaSw1pFu-16ciQeP1aqMmV9HZO1Ns53aeSTbEWYcW1zHbQiX8o4ZH2Cf7SRFCpAVcfQNOo8lTIGTsZq3XW_ej2PG12krSphhqY27beNSTtnH08HA/w369-h400/OLD%20BURYING%20GROUND%20-%20SEPTEMBER%2016%202016%20-%20CORDELIA%20DEPOY%20-%20CLOSE%20UP.JPG" width="369" /></a></div><b><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46920760/cordelia-depoy" target="_blank">Cordelia Macey DePoy</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOqeEuGM1lEu5Q7rsIPb-elrXNjuGbetSVKvuYXJAD6154Ym3_jabHlKwMADWNXsVDVUQQN7Ax8ZqOX6yI6N4V7OT8KR4-KSTMwJwXS0GhcD18RCVdnn9cSoakQgo2HryHPnCKPPWKNotCoqiqOsbIA10rkQER_cj5FjJCruISJQi9F3iei79lyDUtfAY/s2816/OLD%20BURYING%20GROUND%20-%20SEPTEMBER%2016%202016%20-%20THOMAS%20COFFEY.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2112" data-original-width="2816" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOqeEuGM1lEu5Q7rsIPb-elrXNjuGbetSVKvuYXJAD6154Ym3_jabHlKwMADWNXsVDVUQQN7Ax8ZqOX6yI6N4V7OT8KR4-KSTMwJwXS0GhcD18RCVdnn9cSoakQgo2HryHPnCKPPWKNotCoqiqOsbIA10rkQER_cj5FjJCruISJQi9F3iei79lyDUtfAY/s320/OLD%20BURYING%20GROUND%20-%20SEPTEMBER%2016%202016%20-%20THOMAS%20COFFEY.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46072648/thomas-coffey" target="_blank">Corporal Thomas Coffey</a></span></b></div><b style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL7efxdKN6xoYkMjwgYqFm3bnAOz_12BWd-0VoNn9Ohxr_ZYxHl9aCAPwRhwnEXRLHN33q_wNeMVC9qINc0bCPhF5_zxdyiPnRi-BA8GMk-JSwwOrIIiLGfMCTDoIVf9E0c4hTfCZSfvvAvgmolsKUDiNwbLjFu3AX7xEZb2a8uWu8Fh6g6F1Gwgb-aNY/s2816/OLD%20BURYING%20GROUND%20-%20SEPTEMBER%2016%202016%20-%20ELLENOR%20COFFEY.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2112" data-original-width="2816" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL7efxdKN6xoYkMjwgYqFm3bnAOz_12BWd-0VoNn9Ohxr_ZYxHl9aCAPwRhwnEXRLHN33q_wNeMVC9qINc0bCPhF5_zxdyiPnRi-BA8GMk-JSwwOrIIiLGfMCTDoIVf9E0c4hTfCZSfvvAvgmolsKUDiNwbLjFu3AX7xEZb2a8uWu8Fh6g6F1Gwgb-aNY/w400-h300/OLD%20BURYING%20GROUND%20-%20SEPTEMBER%2016%202016%20-%20ELLENOR%20COFFEY.JPG" width="400" /></a></div></b><b style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46072780/ellenor-coffey" target="_blank">Ellenor Coffey</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">*******</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">Adding this possibility for another discoid marker at the Old Burying Ground. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">It is not known at this time if this marker was actually repaired and epoxied back together. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">It appears it was taken apart for restoration so it may appear to be as seen in the photograph on the left if the process wasn't completed.: </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://billiongraves.com/grave/C9-1-Unknown/74924600" target="_blank">It is listed on BillionGraves as an unknown marker. </a> </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-family: times; font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: times;">Sharing this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfAVMswfQTU" target="_blank">Youtube</a> video about discoid markers here in America entitled.:</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="background-color: white;"><b style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">"</span></b><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>The Necked Discoid Grave Marker - An Archaeologist's Study to Learn More about the Unique Headstone" </b></span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>by Rich Kuenneke</b></span></span></span></div></div></span>Exploring Almost Forgotten Gravesites in the Great State of Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782311455322231548noreply@blogger.comGreenfield, OH 45123, USA39.3520084 -83.38269280000001511.041774563821157 -118.53894280000002 67.662242236178855 -48.226442800000015tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5691124119466167227.post-31977442342152868752024-01-16T15:09:00.000-05:002024-01-16T15:09:01.168-05:00Teresa Straley Lambert will present Cemetery Iconography at the Dorcas Carey Public Library - Large Meeting Room - Tuesday - January 23, 2024 at 6:00PM<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">The <a href="https://dorcascarey.org/" target="_blank">Dorcas Carey Public Library</a> will be the site for an upcoming presentation by <a href="https://online.pubhtml5.com/ffewf/rdab/" target="_blank">Teresa Straley Lambert</a> who will explain in detail the meanings of grave marker symbolism also known as iconography that helps tell the story of a life lived perhaps long ago that just might not exist anywhere else. </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Most grave markers and monuments have motifs and symbols as well as their name, death date, and age at death that pertain specifically to the person and the life they led. </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Learn what those additional carvings and exquisite embellishments signify - i.e. an open bible on top of the marker may mean the deceased was a preacher during their lifetime. Small markers with a sleeping lamb carved on top identifies the gravesite is for an infant. </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">There is so much more to learn! </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Well-known author <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hancock-County-Teresa-Straley-Lambert/dp/1467141356" target="_blank">Teresa Straley Lambert</a>, will share her vast knowledge on this subject that is also a fascinating study to enjoy while visiting a cemetery! </span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkTiJTNUSkAQjeUJCOn6pY1bThcpa0MQ3jYTQi5q6Kt1vja-2N-J-oxvdBBv2Xilh-cHi6OCMtxkWeFS0xUGRGyJ6_qcb4ow2_SlLM7lDtcWkdWVApxAW0Guwkls7qXZ1dZkcEJBV_qjwd53tiAihXdFlxvgrsli8Y7whaGrFp7-iRct0cLcz1Rjw8Qaw/s1153/CEMETERY%20ICONOGRAPHY%20-%20TERESA%20STRALEY%20LAMBERT%20-%20JANUARY%2023%202024%20-%20DORAS%20CAREY%20PUBLIC%20LIBRARY%20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="723" data-original-width="1153" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkTiJTNUSkAQjeUJCOn6pY1bThcpa0MQ3jYTQi5q6Kt1vja-2N-J-oxvdBBv2Xilh-cHi6OCMtxkWeFS0xUGRGyJ6_qcb4ow2_SlLM7lDtcWkdWVApxAW0Guwkls7qXZ1dZkcEJBV_qjwd53tiAihXdFlxvgrsli8Y7whaGrFp7-iRct0cLcz1Rjw8Qaw/w400-h251/CEMETERY%20ICONOGRAPHY%20-%20TERESA%20STRALEY%20LAMBERT%20-%20JANUARY%2023%202024%20-%20DORAS%20CAREY%20PUBLIC%20LIBRARY%20.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Exploring Almost Forgotten Gravesites in the Great State of Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782311455322231548noreply@blogger.comCarey, OH 43316, USA40.9525551 -83.382423812.642321263821152 -118.5386738 69.26278893617885 -48.2261738tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5691124119466167227.post-71094453289020038172024-01-15T15:36:00.001-05:002024-01-16T01:30:49.525-05:00Captain Fairbanks Church III buried at the Huron Cemetery in Erie County, Ohio and the vandalism that most likely destroyed his one of a kind grave marker.<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwEg4Ktc8iVTcX0GCT1gcaJc_HgoLfS5VoYTqX2hIWnNbt1eXAJ-F7fiYNDtrv_UZ-2qZxLy2nC7fTqHJ30Rr3IM66xRL3tdVx-Rqdbnn-xGu9BLh5jMo2PCD7g1l4CsLAYJTGXnk_HPdhaAIr0OAe0lUhO4Lyo9ri8760qmtKdCwo8sblteEvxV8oTLE/s2974/MATTHEW%20WEISMAN%20-%20FAIRBANKS%20CHURCH%20TOMBSTONE%20-%20BLACK%20AND%20WHITE-001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2974" data-original-width="2267" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwEg4Ktc8iVTcX0GCT1gcaJc_HgoLfS5VoYTqX2hIWnNbt1eXAJ-F7fiYNDtrv_UZ-2qZxLy2nC7fTqHJ30Rr3IM66xRL3tdVx-Rqdbnn-xGu9BLh5jMo2PCD7g1l4CsLAYJTGXnk_HPdhaAIr0OAe0lUhO4Lyo9ri8760qmtKdCwo8sblteEvxV8oTLE/w305-h400/MATTHEW%20WEISMAN%20-%20FAIRBANKS%20CHURCH%20TOMBSTONE%20-%20BLACK%20AND%20WHITE-001.jpg" width="305" /></a></p><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><div><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">First, thanking <a href="https://lchs.org/events/" target="_blank">Mr. Matthew J. Weisman</a>, well-known Great Lakes ship builder historian, author, and public program presenter for so kindly alerting me to the unfortunate disappearance of this uniquely carved sidewheel steamboat grave marker for Captain Fairbanks Church III who was laid to rest in 1843 at the <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2198407/huron-cemetery" target="_blank">Huron Cemetery - Huron Township in Erie County, Ohio</a>. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">**********</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Taking the opportunity to share here also details of the upcoming January 24, 2024, 7:00p.m. Zoom Meeting offered by the <a href="https://lchs.org/events/" target="_blank">Lorain County Historical Society</a> to be presented by Mr. Weisman.: <br /></span></b><a href="https://lchs.org/events/" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b>Bicentennial Speaker Series:</b></span></a><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c4858; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.618; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><div><span style="color: #72a043; font-weight: 600; text-align: left;"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SYayjyEUTrCqLQioY1Dudw#/registration" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">200 Years of Ship Building, Industry and Commerce on the Black River</span></a></span><b style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"> </span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></div><div><b style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Sadly, information provided by some Huron (Erie County, Ohio) area residents who have personal knowledge of the Huron Cemetery, state there are several downed and sinking markers, while others are stacked up elsewhere at the cemetery. </span></b></div></div></div></span><div style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">********</span></b></div><div style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Thus, it is quite possible that this once intact grave marker, that for so long stood prominently at the Huron Cemetery, fell victim to a vicious vandalism attack after this photo of it was taken in August of 1963. </span></b></div><div style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></div><div style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3c4858; line-height: 1.618; margin: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">I do feel it is befitting to also offer some biographical information about the life and shipbuilding career of</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"> Captain Fairbanks Church III as shared to me by</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><i>Matthew J. Weisman:</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><i><u>Excerpts:</u></i></span></b></div></div></div><div style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://lib-2023.bgsu.edu/findingaids/repositories/4/resources/1527/collection_organization#tree::archival_object_143701">“ADZ,
CAULK, AND RIVETS”<br /></a></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">A History
of Ship Building Along<br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Ohio's
Northern Shore<br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">A Thesis<br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Presented
to<br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">The
Graduate Faculty of the University of Akron<br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">In Partial
Fulfillment<br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">of the
Requirements for the Degree<br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Master of
Arts<br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Richard J.
Wright<br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">August,
1963</span></b></div><div style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">______________________</span></b></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">"FAIRBANKS
CHURCH"</span></b></p><div style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">(1791-1843)</span></b></div><div style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">“Fairbanks Church was born about 1791. <br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">His
place of birth is unknown.<br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Church was a master carpenter for James Day<br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"> in Black River, Ohio.</span></b></div><div style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">The </span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">yard was located on the west bank of the
Black River. <br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">In 1819, he built the </span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">General Huntington<br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">along with James, Day,
Augustus Jones <br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">and Enoch </span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Murdock. <br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">The schooners Ann (1819) and Young
Amaranth (1825)<br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">were </span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">also built there by Church and Day. <br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">He later
relocated to Huron, Ohio<br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">where he established a shipyard.<br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">The schooner Marengo (1831) appears to be the
first vessel built by </span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Church in Huron. <br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">The steamer George
Washington was built<br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"> there in 1833 </span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">by Church and Captain Augustus Walker. <br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">She
ran for the Huron Steam </span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Boat Company with Captain Walker as her
Master. <br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Church and Walker </span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">also partnered in the building of the Sheldon
Thompson (1833). <br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Church </span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">was well-known for building side-wheel
steamer in the 1830s. <br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">The United </span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">States (1834), DeWitt Clinton (1836),
Cleveland (1837), Great Western</span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">(1838)<br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"> and General Scott (1839) were all
side-wheelers built by Church in </span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Huron. <br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">The steamer Sandusky (1834) appears to
be<br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">his only build at </span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Sandusky.<br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">The James Monroe, a side-wheel steamer, was
built in Monroe, Michigan </span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">by Church in 1834. <br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">In 1841, Church and Joseph
Keating built the Toledo,<br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">also a side-wheel steamer, in Toledo, Ohio. </span></b></div><div style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">The name Toledo was changed </span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">to Indiana before going into service.<br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Fairbanks Church launched a small steamer on </span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">June 13, </span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">1839 </span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">which was described as </span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">"the
greatest little boat ever built on these or </span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">any other waters." </span></b></div><div style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">She was named the <i>General
Scott</i>. <br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">This was the last </span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">steamer built by Church. </span></b></div><div style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">In 1841 he built the
schooner <i>Woodbridge</i>, and in</span></b></div><div style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">1842 the schooner <i>Rebecca </i>and the brig
<i>Henry Clay</i>.<br /> </span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Fairbanks Church was a well-known and
respected shipbuilder who had </span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">built vessels with many of the top builders
of his day. </span></b></div><div style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">He also was the </span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">mentor of Cleveland shipbuilder Luther Moses. <br /></span></b><br /></div><div style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Church died in 1843 at the </span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">age of 52. </span></b></div><div style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">He is buried in Main Street
Cemetery.</span></b></div><div style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">************</span></b></div><div style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">It is fitting </span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">that a side-wheeler steamer is carved into the top of
his grave stone and that </span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">“Master Shipbuilder” is inscribed under his
name.”<br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~<br /></span></b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b>Sharing a link to Captain Fairbanks Church III's memorial on </b></span></div><div style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/228908819/fairbanks-church" target="_blank">Find a Grave</a> </b></span></div><div style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></div><div style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"> Now, returning to the subject of the disappearance of Captain Fairbanks Church III's grave marker. </span></b></div><div style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">After further research, it was learned that a violent vandalism attack did occur on August 14, 1975 per reports published at the time in "The Journal" - the newspaper for Lorain, Ohio.:</span></b></div><div style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjos8u8ncwmR8TQD2Dx21qu4dS8CpJEpyTaU9KNka9QXYXJk33PVHxLyIVfvES3_yQix3YghER7NfF1e4d4INsEP8yIGqG2nYZnIrpdOsLk8-DuEW5kgzl5DEl1pdzyZwx4965FEeqM6KKO6h6oAMcP-Fm-lTssd9x1afvmkojfjkRx-JcKqvyb9gj6aqs/s831/VANDALS%20DAMAGE%20HURON%20CEMETERY%20-%20THE%20JOURNAL%20-%20LORAIN%20OHIO%20-%20FRIDAY%20AUGUST%2015%201975%20-%20PAGE%209-TEXT%20&%20FRAME.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="831" data-original-width="713" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjos8u8ncwmR8TQD2Dx21qu4dS8CpJEpyTaU9KNka9QXYXJk33PVHxLyIVfvES3_yQix3YghER7NfF1e4d4INsEP8yIGqG2nYZnIrpdOsLk8-DuEW5kgzl5DEl1pdzyZwx4965FEeqM6KKO6h6oAMcP-Fm-lTssd9x1afvmkojfjkRx-JcKqvyb9gj6aqs/w344-h400/VANDALS%20DAMAGE%20HURON%20CEMETERY%20-%20THE%20JOURNAL%20-%20LORAIN%20OHIO%20-%20FRIDAY%20AUGUST%2015%201975%20-%20PAGE%209-TEXT%20&%20FRAME.jpg" width="344" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJQfbOL7C-U2QK0e4MqhnvIa61g1taCsn2meL3YaG9u2aLq0av7cWl56d9vS20Hh3SKT_vMvtQkHBnZgod9XN-70uX7bb22TwWMvhr6pfJm5A7eX_ZA1_ZTQictZC9a8vDHLsS8iudFgJxM9HZmYaS2NFRWjXdvsvydo65fsJfmcn0lBBbQVw3Vh0W2nU/s751/MUST%20MAKE%20RESTITUTION%20FOR%20CEMETERY%20DAMAGE%20-%20THE%20JOURNAL%20-%20LORAIN%20OHIO%20-%20FRIDAY%20AUGUST%2023%201975%20-%20PAGE%2023%20-%20WITH%20TEXT%20&%20FRAME.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="751" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJQfbOL7C-U2QK0e4MqhnvIa61g1taCsn2meL3YaG9u2aLq0av7cWl56d9vS20Hh3SKT_vMvtQkHBnZgod9XN-70uX7bb22TwWMvhr6pfJm5A7eX_ZA1_ZTQictZC9a8vDHLsS8iudFgJxM9HZmYaS2NFRWjXdvsvydo65fsJfmcn0lBBbQVw3Vh0W2nU/w400-h350/MUST%20MAKE%20RESTITUTION%20FOR%20CEMETERY%20DAMAGE%20-%20THE%20JOURNAL%20-%20LORAIN%20OHIO%20-%20FRIDAY%20AUGUST%2023%201975%20-%20PAGE%2023%20-%20WITH%20TEXT%20&%20FRAME.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">From the Sandusky Register newspaper:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5I-YxXVqnOLqDqyv2vXm1Fj-_RCCvcEQAC3yfD3T5-AIUr-RQS81nbSpbuHMfMqBX_qZSlAdFosoM0VcBjAhyphenhyphenmPfgkMtnoCjRq8KtjJHMVpKO18hdQ5jny61GSa6y2Q8_jN3OyDT3kZK7EgYJI6th2_f9DgPXR7BePqzDRmM7oQBIJCjy8gLu98YY4ks/s900/MONDAY%20AUGUST%2018%201975%20SANDUSKY%20REGISTER%20-%20HURON%20CEMETERY%20VANDALISM%20OPINION%20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="451" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5I-YxXVqnOLqDqyv2vXm1Fj-_RCCvcEQAC3yfD3T5-AIUr-RQS81nbSpbuHMfMqBX_qZSlAdFosoM0VcBjAhyphenhyphenmPfgkMtnoCjRq8KtjJHMVpKO18hdQ5jny61GSa6y2Q8_jN3OyDT3kZK7EgYJI6th2_f9DgPXR7BePqzDRmM7oQBIJCjy8gLu98YY4ks/w320-h640/MONDAY%20AUGUST%2018%201975%20SANDUSKY%20REGISTER%20-%20HURON%20CEMETERY%20VANDALISM%20OPINION%20.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">No one can put a price tag on lost respect and dignity for the cemetery itself as well as for all of the damaged and destroyed grave markers on its landscape. Too much history has already been lost and those who caused such destruction should receive penalties that match the severity of their crime.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">********** </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://codes.ohio.gov/assets/laws/revised-code/authenticated/17/1721/1721.14/1-9-1961/1721.14-1-9-1961.pdf" target="_blank">Ohio Revised Code Section 1721.14 effective January 9, 1961 - Cemetery Policemen</a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-2909.05#:~:text=(D)%20No%20person%2C%20without,section%20is%20guilty%20of%20vandalism." target="_blank">Ohio Revised Code 2909.05 - Vandalism - September 30, 2011</a> - </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-skip-ink: none;">(C) No person, without privilege to do so, shall knowingly cause serious physical harm to any tomb, monument, gravestone, or other similar structure that is used as a memorial for the dead; to any fence, railing, curb, or other property that is used to protect, enclose, or ornament any cemetery; or to a cemetery.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-skip-ink: none;">(D) No person, without privilege to do so, shall knowingly cause physical harm to a place of burial by breaking and entering into a tomb, crypt, casket, or other structure that is used as a memorial for the dead or as an enclosure for the dead.</p><section class="laws-body" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); border-color: rgb(19, 81, 129); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 2px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; line-height: 34px; margin: 0px 0px 36px; padding: 11px 1px 13px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-skip-ink: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-skip-ink: none;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-skip-ink: none;">(E) Whoever violates this section is guilty of vandalism. Except as otherwise provided in this division, vandalism is a felony of the fifth degree that is punishable by a fine of up to two thousand five hundred dollars in addition to the penalties specified for a felony of the fifth degree in sections <a class="section-link" href="https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-2929.11" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-skip-ink: none;">2929.11</a> to <a class="section-link" href="https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-2929.18" style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-skip-ink: none;">2929.18</a> of the Revised Code. If the value of the property or the amount of physical harm involved is seven thousand five hundred dollars or more but less than one hundred fifty thousand dollars, vandalism is a felony of the fourth degree. If the value of the property or the amount of physical harm involved is one hundred fifty thousand dollars or more, vandalism is a felony of the third degree.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-skip-ink: none;">(F) For purposes of this section:</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-skip-ink: none;">(1) "Cemetery" means any place of burial and includes burial sites that contain American Indian burial objects placed with or containing American Indian human remains.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-skip-ink: none;">(2) "Serious physical harm" means physical harm to property that results in loss to the value of the property of one thousand dollars or more.</p></span></section></div></span></b></div>Exploring Almost Forgotten Gravesites in the Great State of Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782311455322231548noreply@blogger.comHuron Township, OH, USA41.3822571 -82.583494713.072023263821151 -117.7397447 69.692490936178842 -47.4272447tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5691124119466167227.post-10128163168153418642024-01-14T19:54:00.000-05:002024-01-14T19:54:27.147-05:00VIRTUAL CEMETERY TOUR - HAYWARD-NEWLAND CEMETERY - SCIOTO COUNTY - VERNON TOWNSHIP - ELI ALLEN'S "WANDERING APPALACHIA" WEBSITE: <iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/3yiqaIvPE8A?si=li5wg-59WpipjmQw" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3yiqaIvPE8A/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe><div>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2384795/hayward-cemetery" target="_blank">The Hayward-Newland Cemetery on Find a Grave.:</a></span></b></div>Exploring Almost Forgotten Gravesites in the Great State of Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782311455322231548noreply@blogger.comScioto County, OH, USA38.861065 -82.9931606999999910.550831163821158 -118.14941069999999 67.171298836178849 -47.83691069999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5691124119466167227.post-50304378707294815512024-01-12T11:16:00.008-05:002024-01-12T12:07:37.153-05:00A link to the Harrison County W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps has been added to the right sidebar of the blog <p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #fefefe;">The W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps for Harrison County have been added to the right sidebar of the blog. </span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #fefefe;">Below are the townships that comprise Harrison County.:</span></span></b></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #fefefe;">Archer, </span><span style="background-color: #fefefe;">Athens, </span><span style="background-color: #fefefe;">Cadiz, </span><span style="background-color: #fefefe;">Franklin, </span><span style="background-color: #fefefe;">Freeport, </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #fefefe;">German, </span><span style="background-color: #fefefe;">Green, M</span><span style="background-color: #fefefe;">onroe, </span><span style="background-color: #fefefe;">Moorefield, </span><span style="background-color: #fefefe;">North, </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #fefefe;">Nottingham, </span><span style="background-color: #fefefe;">Rumley,</span></span></b></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #fefefe;">Short Creek, </span></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #fefefe;">Stock, </span></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #fefefe;">Washington</span></span></b></div></b><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br style="background-color: #fefefe;" /></span></b></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #fefefe;">This collection of W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps is from the Map Office of Harrison County. </span></span></b></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #fefefe;"><br /></span></span></b></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #fefefe;">First, please note that this collection of W.P.A. Cemetery Plat maps is missing </span></span></b></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #fefefe;">several of its map pages. In a few instances, there are also partial map pages. Thus, it became necessary to type up the handwritten original Cemetery Listing Index Page. </span></span></b></div><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;">Below is a listing of the names of the cemeteries that show the missing map pages in this collection that should have been there based on the handwritten Cemetery Index that was provided.:</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>1. <span>Alley Cemetery - Short Creek Township – Map Page missing – Page
59</span></b></span><b><span><span style="color: #660000;"> </span></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b><span><span style="color: #660000;">2. Atkinson Cemetery - Short Creek Township – Left side of the Map
Page missing – Page 57</span></span></b><b><span><span style="color: #660000;"> </span></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b><span><span style="color: #660000;">3. Beech Springs Cemetery - Green Township –
Map Page missing – Page 71</span></span></b><b><span><span style="color: #660000;"> </span></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b><span><span style="color: #660000;"> 4.
Bethel Cemetery - Green Township – Map Page missing – Page 50</span></span></b><b><span><span style="color: #660000;"> </span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b><span><span style="color: #660000;"> </span></span></b><b><span><span style="color: #660000;">5. Blue Ridge Cemetery - Green Township – Map Page missing – Page 23</span></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">6. Cannan Cemetery – German Township – Map Page missing –
Page 23</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">7. Centre Unity Cemetery - Cadiz Township – Map Page missing – Page 22</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">8. Colored A.M.E. Cemetery - Short Creek Township
– Map Page missing - Page 60</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">9. Franklin Cemetery – Franklin Township –
Map Page missing – Page 85</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">10. Furbay Cemetery - Short Creek Township – Left side of Map Page
missing Page 57</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">11. Furguson (Ferguson?) Cemetery - Green Township – Map Page missing – Page 60</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">12. Greenmount Cemetery – Freeport Township
– Map Page missing – Pages 3 - 7</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">13. Greenwood Cemetery Green Township – Map Page missing – Pages 44 -
49</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">14. Hann (Haun?) Cemetery - German Township – Map Page missing – Page 23</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">15. Hopedale Cemetery – Green Township – Map
Page missing – Page 51</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">16. McGaw Cemetery - Archer – Map Page missing – Page 85</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">17. Old Deersville Cemetery - Franklin Township - Map Page missing – Page 88</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">18 . Olive Branch Cemetery - Short Creek
Township – Map Page missing – Pages 52 - 56</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">19. Patterson Cemetery – Franklin Township –
Map Page missing – Page 86</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">20. Ridgeview Cemetery – Archer Township –
Map Page missing – Page 78</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">21. Short Creek Cemetery - Short Creek
Township – Map Page missing – Page 58</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">22. Stiers Cemetery - Short Creek Township –
Map Page missing – Page 59</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">23. Utterback Cemetery – Franklin Township –
Map Page missing – Page 85</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">24. West Grove Cemetery - Short Creek Township
– Map Page missing – Page 61</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">25. Wilson Cemetery - Short Creek Township –
Map Page missing – Page 60<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">26. Wood Cemetery – North Township – Map
Page missing – Page 85<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b><span> </span></b><b><span>27. Zion Cemetery – German Township – Map
Page missing – Page 22</span></b></span></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: x-large; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large; font-weight: 700;">Below is a composite of the Project Title Page: </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large; font-weight: 700;">"Veterans Graves Registration" </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large; font-weight: 700;">and</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large; font-weight: 700;"> the Addenda of the veterans with unknown burial locations in Harrison County, Ohio.:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGFMIsGQcVPiV3rGPgYxjO2ffDa1Auz7LCyD_qNjKk-Lef4H0BMDc-sLtUtfRBZ-mpNa4MwX6qoFbozKWg3-GKlbgZlDdWguVmxkxxeSzNpwItA2mHtzk3wIIkNZ-wpiWx-JkZ3KlFMArjGtyaBzHXXUD2gAo8fMrhcHvx9UK_zvO0XkViM9CiLZWNiuQ/s2606/WPA%20CEMETERY%20PLAT%20MAPS%20-%20HARRISON%20COUNTY%20-%20PROJECT%20TITLE%20PAGE%20&%20ADDENDA%20OF%20VETERAN%20UNKNOWN%20BURIAL%20LOCATIONS.jpg" style="font-weight: bold; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="2606" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGFMIsGQcVPiV3rGPgYxjO2ffDa1Auz7LCyD_qNjKk-Lef4H0BMDc-sLtUtfRBZ-mpNa4MwX6qoFbozKWg3-GKlbgZlDdWguVmxkxxeSzNpwItA2mHtzk3wIIkNZ-wpiWx-JkZ3KlFMArjGtyaBzHXXUD2gAo8fMrhcHvx9UK_zvO0XkViM9CiLZWNiuQ/w400-h308/WPA%20CEMETERY%20PLAT%20MAPS%20-%20HARRISON%20COUNTY%20-%20PROJECT%20TITLE%20PAGE%20&%20ADDENDA%20OF%20VETERAN%20UNKNOWN%20BURIAL%20LOCATIONS.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Below is the W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Map for The Old Cadiz Cemetery - Cadiz Township, Harrison County, Ohio. </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>The W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Map for this cemetery lists 9 Revolutionary War veterans and two War of 1812 veterans. </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Only one American Revolutionary War veteran's burial location is designated for its Row and Grave number on the map page, which is number 32. </b></div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixeVtMgY9KIWqtP2BwYA08rNF29_Q_Sfw6D4BgcGekiAVVwe9Gr3-hJmkuIZArNaPPssWL5ZcueWE3xCMv6SmUcdUyIkN69ugBLpQRZXkYulzk50pqAaY1tJU339xZ-M7L5IXbNro9-v78SEdOjcbnEbkeqqPZ9cgglLrV0rKnxkVQtUMZMCgzl7QYfs4/s9965/WPA%20CEMETERY%20PLAT%20MAPS%20-%20HARRISON%20COUNTY%20-%20CADIZ%20TWP%20-%20OLD%20CADIZ%20CEM%20-%20VETS%20NAMES%20-%20PAGE%2032.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6829" data-original-width="9965" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixeVtMgY9KIWqtP2BwYA08rNF29_Q_Sfw6D4BgcGekiAVVwe9Gr3-hJmkuIZArNaPPssWL5ZcueWE3xCMv6SmUcdUyIkN69ugBLpQRZXkYulzk50pqAaY1tJU339xZ-M7L5IXbNro9-v78SEdOjcbnEbkeqqPZ9cgglLrV0rKnxkVQtUMZMCgzl7QYfs4/w400-h274/WPA%20CEMETERY%20PLAT%20MAPS%20-%20HARRISON%20COUNTY%20-%20CADIZ%20TWP%20-%20OLD%20CADIZ%20CEM%20-%20VETS%20NAMES%20-%20PAGE%2032.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #660000; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/42508/old-cadiz-cemetery" target="_blank">Old Cadiz Cemetery on Find a Grave.</a></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;">The W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps for Fairview Cemetery in Rumley Township have updated veteran burial information. These maps are up through the Vietnam War with their listing of veterans. This is a very interesting listing to read for its detailed information.:</span></b></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi73cmKyN_KV7V49Rgg8_HhneiN1P8PLMWP1NN_9llMvqIN6tSJlI7pkhtNih0RIwY_VG8TERq5j65k-f1-j7EROYSEHwBEgnoYGMtpptG8pkeCJiR_-9SBkJ6P7OznYkxshU63KbZ5WJ9QyISM8bBomT6eJr5uuNkUJbvndFJSm-5jqP6YYW8m7b5Hfac/s9778/WPA%20CEMETERY%20PLAT%20MAPS%20-%20HARRISON%20COUNTY%20-%20RUMLEY%20TWP%20-%20FAIRVIEW%20CEM%20-%20SECTION%201%20&%20SECTION%203%20-%20VETS%20NAMES%20-%20PAGE%2026.jpg" style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6430" data-original-width="9778" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi73cmKyN_KV7V49Rgg8_HhneiN1P8PLMWP1NN_9llMvqIN6tSJlI7pkhtNih0RIwY_VG8TERq5j65k-f1-j7EROYSEHwBEgnoYGMtpptG8pkeCJiR_-9SBkJ6P7OznYkxshU63KbZ5WJ9QyISM8bBomT6eJr5uuNkUJbvndFJSm-5jqP6YYW8m7b5Hfac/w400-h263/WPA%20CEMETERY%20PLAT%20MAPS%20-%20HARRISON%20COUNTY%20-%20RUMLEY%20TWP%20-%20FAIRVIEW%20CEM%20-%20SECTION%201%20&%20SECTION%203%20-%20VETS%20NAMES%20-%20PAGE%2026.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj8wAGo1NwsMndmmWypuMY4LmoiTy0RVG9dEGXsJu-7PFkCgV8zCCbOpHMXxU5JQOOoHqq1rw2uBdZbB0hlt-NiQSY1C7xIeYYsS_18GjqGydHRquwtM-3DzjVK4XvjuIwkxwg2PSjauw_USCqyftQpyEsqE-PS6xruQs0NX4XhlwDYN6lhdHeIV_1XX8/s10149/WPA%20CEMETERY%20PLAT%20MAPS%20-%20HARRISON%20COUNTY%20-%20RUMLEY%20TWP%20-%20FAIRVIEW%20CEM%20-%20SECTION%205%20-%20VETS%20NAMES%20-%20PAGE%20UNKNOWN%20-%20WITH%20TEXT.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6322" data-original-width="10149" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj8wAGo1NwsMndmmWypuMY4LmoiTy0RVG9dEGXsJu-7PFkCgV8zCCbOpHMXxU5JQOOoHqq1rw2uBdZbB0hlt-NiQSY1C7xIeYYsS_18GjqGydHRquwtM-3DzjVK4XvjuIwkxwg2PSjauw_USCqyftQpyEsqE-PS6xruQs0NX4XhlwDYN6lhdHeIV_1XX8/w400-h249/WPA%20CEMETERY%20PLAT%20MAPS%20-%20HARRISON%20COUNTY%20-%20RUMLEY%20TWP%20-%20FAIRVIEW%20CEM%20-%20SECTION%205%20-%20VETS%20NAMES%20-%20PAGE%20UNKNOWN%20-%20WITH%20TEXT.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguY06KjwuTjuDeHkEKuJS_ZfFdC3rg35gIybE4PpAt8eonKzZaIoH6DXtUGS1VwTwAzIKuFyPf4xQezgTwBWRNrHzXXPuIxp8b6cvYEo2plx3-HubefJlmxqaF_21f5HxoscXQ9K9eKC-pruZPodkpI9_iiKE1TpWcSNwz2SiSg5XYuvbe-hqfiz72_XU/s9015/WPA%20CEMETERY%20PLAT%20MAPS%20-%20HARRISON%20COUNTY%20-%20RUMLEY%20TWP%20-%20FAIRVIEW%20CEM%20-%20SECTIONS%202%20&%204%20-%20VETS%20NAMES%20-%20PAGE%2027%20-%20WITH%20TEXT.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="7268" data-original-width="9015" height="323" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguY06KjwuTjuDeHkEKuJS_ZfFdC3rg35gIybE4PpAt8eonKzZaIoH6DXtUGS1VwTwAzIKuFyPf4xQezgTwBWRNrHzXXPuIxp8b6cvYEo2plx3-HubefJlmxqaF_21f5HxoscXQ9K9eKC-pruZPodkpI9_iiKE1TpWcSNwz2SiSg5XYuvbe-hqfiz72_XU/w400-h323/WPA%20CEMETERY%20PLAT%20MAPS%20-%20HARRISON%20COUNTY%20-%20RUMLEY%20TWP%20-%20FAIRVIEW%20CEM%20-%20SECTIONS%202%20&%204%20-%20VETS%20NAMES%20-%20PAGE%2027%20-%20WITH%20TEXT.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></b></div><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/40801/fairview-cemetery" target="_blank">The Fairview Cemetery in Rumley Township, Harrison County, Ohio on Find a Grave.</a></span></b></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;">Hopefully, one day the missing map pages for the Harrison County W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps will be found and included in their collection of these maps. <br /> </span></b></b><b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></b></div><p></p>Exploring Almost Forgotten Gravesites in the Great State of Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782311455322231548noreply@blogger.comOhio, USA40.4172871 -82.90712300000001312.107053263821157 -118.06337300000001 68.727520936178848 -47.750873000000013tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5691124119466167227.post-32807295634404824082024-01-05T21:32:00.004-05:002024-01-05T21:40:44.436-05:00Tidbits of Treasures Tumble from "Twice Told Tales" - From the Harrison County News Herald - April 24, 1980, by John Campbell -Tuscarawas County's Mears Cemetery <p><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/42089/mears-cemetery" target="_blank">Mears Cemetery</a> is indeed located in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. </span></b><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">This newsworthy tidbit about it </span></b><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">though</span></b><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> comes from the "Harrison News Herald" in Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio, on April 24, 1980. </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Featured in the "County Seat Mirror" by John Campbell are the "Twice Told Tales". Arranged as a date-by-date listing of "treasured tidbits" that otherwise just might not be re-published for a new and larger audience, we can read them as an unfolding history. </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Here we find short paragraphs that can contain key answers to a researcher's lingering questions. </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Of note </span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">in the last two paragraphs</span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> is the focus shift to the stonecutter J. W. Glasgow. </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2011/202/73772599_131138057215.jpg" target="_blank">Leah, consort of Samuel Mairs exquisitely carved grave marker that was perfect in 2011</a>.</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73772509/samuel-mairs" target="_blank">Samuel Mairs matching carved grave marker</a>. </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~*</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">July 16, 1825.: The "Harrison Telegraph" unclaimed letters at the Cadiz Post Office. </b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Note John Glasgow.: </b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5Ud_5w1BDBwfGWD4kgdwIsGP7YsikYMCYi3KF8cnO7sC5ctMEZacYBSph13efRWh0-KxUDDBuxx-aI23FceNPgCmGfU8BXoL1egCC5YbEcKPGaryuDFciqRgMUWviZ8qHvOy2GKR183T-iezfw3JxYPH6K6_sXIE3ERY6n2ig8jpZULegx-n88XnfcKU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="925" data-original-width="1198" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5Ud_5w1BDBwfGWD4kgdwIsGP7YsikYMCYi3KF8cnO7sC5ctMEZacYBSph13efRWh0-KxUDDBuxx-aI23FceNPgCmGfU8BXoL1egCC5YbEcKPGaryuDFciqRgMUWviZ8qHvOy2GKR183T-iezfw3JxYPH6K6_sXIE3ERY6n2ig8jpZULegx-n88XnfcKU=w400-h309" width="400" /></a></span></b></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></div><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfeX7yEoo7Nrbd4QOhgAum7Ae2mz2oFrLYDhjO7S2QAiTytwyH3m3N5ocYufRrlKO_mo9VgXQ_PgW2oMxNe0q3j84V3rNWNXIaYRpse0WSI7HAx8jqHV6uvDMwk05dvJKQ9DtvM74llhsMCLaadsbPFjK8zIjYsRmPkpl-iexnM-KusnpfBzoNXAd9mu8/s758/HARRISON%20NEWS%20HERALD%20-%20MEARS%20CEMETERY%20-%20TUSCARAWAS%20COUNTY%20-%20APRIL%2024%201980%20-%20PAGE%2018%20-%20WITH%20TEXT%20&%20FRAME.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="758" data-original-width="401" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfeX7yEoo7Nrbd4QOhgAum7Ae2mz2oFrLYDhjO7S2QAiTytwyH3m3N5ocYufRrlKO_mo9VgXQ_PgW2oMxNe0q3j84V3rNWNXIaYRpse0WSI7HAx8jqHV6uvDMwk05dvJKQ9DtvM74llhsMCLaadsbPFjK8zIjYsRmPkpl-iexnM-KusnpfBzoNXAd9mu8/w211-h400/HARRISON%20NEWS%20HERALD%20-%20MEARS%20CEMETERY%20-%20TUSCARAWAS%20COUNTY%20-%20APRIL%2024%201980%20-%20PAGE%2018%20-%20WITH%20TEXT%20&%20FRAME.jpg" width="211" /></span></a></div></span></b><p></p><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCpsBoYmuruychVscdgcGrfuK414T5sNyMgAju_EWm5Y-VubeV4yiD3viDpkSLAYv9VKtQ8AZqra-IHJwaUobrge5D2lRJIBLuzhFrjwt-nEPxswRivEnOlYY1LNohD_-FqhYj_uv4qo9Y77zkM0Q5XJZwowc8GaCLjefmp1anRI3iSkhyphenhyphen-vtbd4L17t8/s719/SAMUEL%20MAIRS%20(MEARS)%20TOMBSTONE%20MEARS%20CEMETERY%20-%20PHOTO%20BY%20DAVID%20-%20JULY%2022%202011.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="719" data-original-width="374" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCpsBoYmuruychVscdgcGrfuK414T5sNyMgAju_EWm5Y-VubeV4yiD3viDpkSLAYv9VKtQ8AZqra-IHJwaUobrge5D2lRJIBLuzhFrjwt-nEPxswRivEnOlYY1LNohD_-FqhYj_uv4qo9Y77zkM0Q5XJZwowc8GaCLjefmp1anRI3iSkhyphenhyphen-vtbd4L17t8/w208-h400/SAMUEL%20MAIRS%20(MEARS)%20TOMBSTONE%20MEARS%20CEMETERY%20-%20PHOTO%20BY%20DAVID%20-%20JULY%2022%202011.jpg" width="208" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Samuel Mairs (Mears) - Find A Grave Memorial by David, a Find a Grave Contributor. </b></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times;">So keep an eye out for those tiny but treasured tidbits about your favorite subject, and when you least expect it, you just might learn all you need to know about it from them!</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times;"> </span></b></span></p>Exploring Almost Forgotten Gravesites in the Great State of Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782311455322231548noreply@blogger.comTuscarawas County, OH, USA40.3978972 -81.42789839999998912.087663363821157 -116.58414839999999 68.708131036178855 -46.271648399999989tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5691124119466167227.post-13915005608196164742023-12-21T00:29:00.002-05:002023-12-21T00:29:39.253-05:00"Shaker Heights Receives 2023 Certified Local Government Grant for Warrensville West Cemetery"<p> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: x-large;"><i>Excerpt:</i><br /></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-size: x-large; text-align: start;">"The City of Shaker Heights has been awarded a 2023 Certified Local Government grant for gravestone restoration at Warrensville West Cemetery. </span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">The grant program is administered by the State Historic Preservation Office of the Ohio History Connection.</span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">"More information about the cemetery, the Historic Preservation Mast Plan and educational opportunities can be found at </span><a href="https://shakeronline.com/cemetery" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">shakeronline.com/cemetery</a><span style="background-color: white;">."</span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">Warrensville West Cemetery</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><a href="https://shakeronline.com/DocumentCenter/View/6570/Warrensville-West-Cemetery-Historic-Preservation-Master-Plan?bidId=" target="_blank">Historic Preservation Master Plan</a>, which is a 295 page document completed March 14, 2022. </b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/43959/warrensville-west-cemetery" target="_blank">Warrensville West Cemetery on Find a Grave</a></span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></b></p>Exploring Almost Forgotten Gravesites in the Great State of Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782311455322231548noreply@blogger.comShaker Heights, OH, USA41.4739419 -81.537067113.163708063821154 -116.6933171 69.784175736178838 -46.3808171tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5691124119466167227.post-62798432282588573512023-12-09T11:55:00.003-05:002023-12-09T11:55:54.759-05:00Atlas Preservation will once again be holding its "48 State Tour" conducting hands-on cemetery preservation workshops during 2024 - free to the public!<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Atlas Preservation has just announced they will once again be holding a state-by-state tour of cemetery preservation workshops in 2024. </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://48statetour.com/?ss_source=sscampaigns&ss_campaign_id=6574905574f2d070a919d336&ss_email_id=6574921074f2d070a919e546&ss_campaign_name=48StateTour%21+2024+Planning+in+Progress%21&ss_campaign_sent_date=2023-12-09T16%3A13%3A10Z" target="_blank">Here is a link </a>to their first post about the upcoming tour program. </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><u><i><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">"</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: aktiv-grotesk; font-weight: 700; white-space-collapse: preserve;">All events are 100% free to the public!"</span></span></i></u></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: 700; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"We’re looking for 2024 hosts!<br style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" />Email us with your location details"<br style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" /></span><a href="mailto:48states48days@gmail.com" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: unset; background-origin: initial; background-position: unset; background-repeat: unset; background-size: unset; cursor: pointer; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 0.2em;"><span style="font-weight: 700; overflow-wrap: break-word;">48states48days@gmail.com</span></a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">The <a href="https://www.facebook.com/48statetour" target="_blank">"48 State Tour"</a> has its own Facebook Page!</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCosX3nA5AxPR11VzURS__NQ" target="_blank">Atlas Preservation on Youtube</a>!</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #660000; font-family: aktiv-grotesk; font-size: x-large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"Please join us. Watch, listen, learn, or help & we look forward to seeing you in your home state along our journey."</b></p><p class="" style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: aktiv-grotesk; line-height: var(--body-font-line-height); margin: 1rem 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://48statetour.com/faq" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: unset; background-origin: initial; background-position: unset; background-repeat: unset; background-size: unset; cursor: pointer; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-color: currentcolor; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 0.2em; white-space: initial;"><span style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Click here to check out the FAQ page for a general overview of a what a workshop looks like!</span></a>"</b></span></p>Exploring Almost Forgotten Gravesites in the Great State of Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782311455322231548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5691124119466167227.post-87308017964094887222023-12-01T00:17:00.003-05:002023-12-01T10:35:29.841-05:00Re-visiting some online Ohio W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps (AKA Veterans Graves Registration) and analyzing their format from one county to the next. <p style="text-align: center;"><b style="outline: none;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium; outline: none;"><i style="outline: none;">Sharing some examples of various arrangements of W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps posted online from a sampling of Ohio Counties.:</i></span></b></p><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; outline: none; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large; outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;">Belmont County's W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps.:</span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; outline: none;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.belcogis.com/DataDownloads/WPA%20Cemetery%20Plat%20Book.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="outline: none;" target="_blank"><b>https://www.belcogis.com/DataDownloads/WPA%20Cemetery%20Plat%20Book.pdf</b></a></div></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; outline: none; text-align: center;"><b style="outline: none;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium; outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><br style="outline: none;" /></span></span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; outline: none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;">********************</span></span></b><br style="outline: none;" /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; outline: none; text-align: center;"><span style="outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium; outline: none;"><br style="outline: none;" /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; outline: none; text-align: center;"><span style="outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium; outline: none;">Coshocton County's W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps.: </span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; outline: none; text-align: center;"><b style="outline: none;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium; outline: none;"><a class="yiv1157563514enhancr_card_1581241437" href="https://www.coshoctoncounty.net/taxmap/cemeteries/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="outline: none;" target="_blank">Cemeteries – GIS and Tax Map Office</a></span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; outline: none; text-align: center;"><b style="outline: none;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: 400; outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><b style="outline: none; text-align: center;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>*******************</span></span></b></span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: 400; outline: none; text-align: center;"><b style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;">Hamilton County Recorder's Office W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps.:</span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: 400; outline: none; text-align: center;"><b style="outline: none;"><a class="yiv1157563514enhancr_card_2230879015" href="https://recordersoffice.hamilton-co.org/helpful_information/cemetery_locations.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="outline: none;" target="_blank">Hamilton County Recorder's Office | Cemetery Locations</a><span style="outline: none;"><br style="outline: none;" /></span></b></div><div style="font-weight: 400; outline: none; text-align: center;"><b style="outline: none;"><br style="outline: none;" /></b></div><div class="yiv1157563514ydp5e003eyahoo-link-enhancr-card yiv1157563514ydp5e003eymail-preserve-class yiv1157563514ydp5e003eymail-preserve-style" data-size="MINI" data-type="YENHANCER" data-url="https://recordersoffice.hamilton-co.org/helpful_information/cemetery_locations.html" id="yiv1157563514ydp5e003eenhancr_card_2230879015" style="display: inline-block; font-weight: 400; max-width: 288px; outline: none; position: relative;"><a class="yiv1157563514ydp5e003eyahoo-enhancr-cardlink" href="https://recordersoffice.hamilton-co.org/helpful_information/cemetery_locations.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv1157563514ydp5e003ecard yiv1157563514ydp5e003eyahoo-ignore-table" style="border-color: rgb(224, 228, 233); border-radius: 2px; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; height: 80px; outline: none; text-align: center; width: 288px;"><tbody style="outline: none;"><tr style="outline: none;"><td style="outline: none; width: 10px; word-break: normal;" width="10px"></td><td style="outline: none; word-break: normal;"><h2 class="yiv1157563514ydp5e003ecard-title" style="line-height: 16px; margin: 4px 0px; max-width: 186px; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hamilton County Recorder's Office | Cem...</span></h2></td></tr></tbody></table></a><div class="card-controls-injection-wrapper" style="height: 0px; outline: none; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 287.999px; z-index: 3;"><div class="p_a T_fq7 R_fq7" style="outline: none; position: absolute; right: 8px; top: 8px;"><div class="I_ak5mD e_dRA j_2kgqsw P_wpoVE" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: rgb(224, 228, 233) 0px 1px 2px; outline: none; padding: 2px 0px; z-index: 3;"><span style="outline: none;"><div class="P_Z1otACY H_6Fd5 W_6Fd5" data-test-id="shareButtonAnchor" style="height: 16px; outline: none; padding: 5px 7px; width: 16px;" tabindex="-1"><button class="c27KHO0_n b_0 M_0 i_0 I_T y_jyw3a A_6EqO c1AVi73_6FsP r_P C_q cvhIH6_T P_0" data-test-id="icon-btn-share_social" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; appearance: none; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; cursor: pointer; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" tabindex="-1" title="Share" type="button"><span class="D_F ab_C gl_C W_6D6F" style="align-items: center; display: flex; justify-content: center; outline: none; width: 15.9939px;"><svg class="D_X W_6Fd5 H_6Fd5 cdPFi_Z281SGl cZW7ROP_n en_0 cvhIH6_T" viewbox="0 0 20 20"><path d="M13.2 12.1c-.6 0-1.2.2-1.7.6l-2.3-1.6c.1-.3.2-.7.2-1.1s-.1-.7-.2-1.1l2.3-1.6c.5.3 1.1.6 1.7.6 1.6 0 2.9-1.3 2.9-2.9s-1.3-3-2.9-3-2.9 1.3-2.9 2.9c0 .4.1.7.2 1.1L8.2 7.6c-.5-.3-1.1-.5-1.8-.5-1.6 0-2.9 1.3-2.9 2.9s1.3 2.9 2.9 2.9c.6 0 1.2-.2 1.7-.6l2.3 1.6c-.1.3-.2.7-.2 1.1 0 1.6 1.3 2.9 2.9 2.9S16 16.6 16 15s-1.2-2.9-2.8-2.9z"></path></svg></span></button></div></span></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: 400; outline: none; text-align: center;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;">********************</span></span><br style="outline: none;" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold; outline: none; text-align: center;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;">Knox County W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps - a direct link after taking a few "clicks" in the appropriate categories on the website of the Tax Map & G.I.S. Department to arrive at this link below with the maps in .pdf format.).:</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold; outline: none; text-align: center;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="outline: none; text-align: center;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><b>https://co.knox.oh.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Cemetery-Maps.pdf</b></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold; outline: none; text-align: center;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold; outline: none; text-align: center;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: 400; outline: none; text-align: center;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;">********************</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: 400; outline: none; text-align: center;"><b style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;">Union County Records Center and Archives - named as Veterans Grave Maps which are the same as the W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps.:</span></span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: 400; outline: none; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: 400; outline: none; text-align: center;"><span style="outline: none;"><a class="yiv1157563514enhancr_card_1702765283" href="https://www.unioncountyohio.gov/veterans-grave-maps" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="outline: none;" target="_blank"><span style="outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;">Union County, Ohio - Veterans Grave Maps (1820-1939)</b></span></a></span></div></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; outline: none; text-align: center;"><b style="outline: none;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: 400; outline: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>********************</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: 400; outline: none; text-align: center;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;">Williams County W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps (AKA Veterans Graves Registration) & History.:</span></b></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: 400; outline: none; text-align: center;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><br style="outline: none;" /></span></b></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: 400; outline: none;"><div dir="ltr" style="outline: none; text-align: center;"><b style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;">The first link is for Williams County Veterans Graves Registration & History. </span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="outline: none; text-align: center;"><b style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="outline: none; text-align: center;"><b style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"> </span></b><b style="outline: none;"><a class="yiv1157563514enhancr_card_2049959132" href="http://www.co.williams.oh.us/308/Veterans-Graves-Registration" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="outline: none;" target="_blank"><span style="outline: none;">Veter</span>an’s Graves Registration | Williams County, OH</a></b><br style="outline: none;" /></div><div style="outline: none; text-align: center;"><br style="outline: none;" /></div><div class="yiv1157563514ydp77b70bc7yahoo-link-enhancr-card yiv1157563514ydp77b70bc7ymail-preserve-class yiv1157563514ydp77b70bc7ymail-preserve-style" data-size="MINI" data-type="YENHANCER" data-url="https://www.williamscountyoh.gov/308/Veterans-Graves-Registration" id="yiv1157563514ydp77b70bc7enhancr_card_1992367409" style="display: inline-block; max-width: 288px; outline: none; position: relative;"><a class="yiv1157563514ydp77b70bc7yahoo-enhancr-cardlink" href="https://www.williamscountyoh.gov/308/Veterans-Graves-Registration" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv1157563514ydp77b70bc7card yiv1157563514ydp77b70bc7yahoo-ignore-table" style="border-color: rgb(224, 228, 233); border-radius: 2px; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; height: 80px; outline: none; text-align: center; width: 288px;"><tbody style="outline: none;"><tr style="outline: none;"><td style="background-color: black; border-radius: 2px 0px 0px 2px; border-right: 1px solid rgb(224, 228, 233); outline: none; width: 80px; word-break: normal;" width="80px"><img height="80" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fs.yimg.com%2Flo%2Fapi%2Fres%2F1.2%2FWIWdu9BsGrV_Y1cAzHYGxw--%7EA%2FZmk9ZmlsbDt3PTgwO2g9ODA7YXBwaWQ9aWV4dHJhY3Q-%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.williamscountyoh.gov%2FImageRepository%2FDocument%3FdocumentID%3D742.cf.jpg&t=1701396227&ymreqid=14182893-5bdb-2e02-1cc3-d00000018c00&sig=f7crCJuV0P5QKsU5MKtQLw--~D" style="border-radius: 2px 0px 0px 2px; outline: none; text-indent: -9999px; vertical-align: middle; width: 80px;" width="80" /></td><td style="outline: none; width: 10px; word-break: normal;" width="10px"></td><td style="outline: none; word-break: normal;"><h2 class="yiv1157563514ydp77b70bc7card-title" style="line-height: 16px; margin: 4px 0px; max-width: 186px; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Veteran’s Graves Registration | William...</span></h2></td></tr></tbody></table></a><div class="yiv1157563514loadingSpinnerContainer" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); display: flex; min-height: 100%; outline: none; width: 287.999px;"><div class="yiv1157563514D_F yiv1157563514F_n yiv1157563514gl_C yiv1157563514ab_C yiv1157563514H_6MGW yiv1157563514o_h" style="outline: none; text-align: center;"><div class="yiv1157563514W_6MGW yiv1157563514H_6MGW yiv1157563514D_X yiv1157563514ah_1PEzoz" style="outline: none;"></div></div><div class="yiv1157563514D_F yiv1157563514F_n yiv1157563514gl_C yiv1157563514ab_C yiv1157563514H_6MGW yiv1157563514o_h" style="outline: none; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="yiv1157563514D_F yiv1157563514F_n yiv1157563514gl_C yiv1157563514ab_C yiv1157563514H_6MGW yiv1157563514o_h" style="outline: none;"><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; outline: none; text-align: center;"><b style="outline: none;"><i style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;">ALSO: </span></i></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; outline: none;"><div style="outline: none; text-align: center;"><span style="outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;">Brian Fritsch – G.I.S. Department: </b><b style="outline: none;">Story Maps.:</b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><div style="outline: none;"><div style="outline: none; text-align: center;"><b style="outline: none;"><i style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;">Copyright 2022. Williams County Engineer's Office. </span></i></b></div><div style="outline: none; text-align: center;"><span style="outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;">Address: </b><b style="outline: none;">12953 County Road G Bryan, Ohio 43506</b></span></div><div style="outline: none; text-align: center;"><span style="outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;">Phone Number </b><b style="outline: none;">419-636-2454 Extension 2121</b></span></div><div style="outline: none; text-align: center;"><span style="outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;">Contact Person: </b><b style="outline: none;">Brian Fritsch </b><a href="mailto:bfritsch@wmscoengineer.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="outline: none;" target="_blank" ymailto="mailto:bfritsch@wmscoengineer.com"><b style="outline: none;">bfritsch@wmscoengineer.com</b></a></span></div><div style="outline: none; text-align: center;"><br style="outline: none;" /></div></div></b></span></div><div style="outline: none; text-align: center;"><a class="yiv1157563514enhancr_card_1980856535" href="https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/d72f8f2d77aa40f5acc138cf75c6de59" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="outline: none;" target="_blank"><b style="outline: none;">Williams County Veteran's Grave Locations</b></a></div><div style="outline: none; 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text-align: center;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span></span><b style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;">Hub:</span></b></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="font-weight: 400; outline: none; text-align: center;"><a class="yiv1157563514enhancr_card_2016966206" href="https://veteran-grave-locations-wmscoeng.hub.arcgis.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="outline: none;" target="_blank"><b style="outline: none;">Veteran Grave Locations</b></a></div><div style="font-weight: 400; outline: none; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: 400; outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"> ***********************</span></b></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: 400; outline: none; text-align: center;"><b style="outline: none;"><br /></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="outline: none; text-align: center;"><span style="outline: none;"><b>Originally in Ohio when these maps were created which was during the years of the Great Depression when the W.P.A. program was operational, one copy of the maps was placed at the Recorder's office for safe keeping. </b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="outline: none; text-align: center;"><span style="outline: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="outline: none; text-align: center;"><span style="outline: none;"><b>As we know now these maps, that are mostly found in hardbound books in a large size, need to be properly scanned and saved in a format such as .PDF; which I'm finding is quite often used. </b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="outline: none; text-align: center;"><span style="outline: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="outline: none; text-align: center;"><span style="outline: none;"><b>After the scanning is done, the images of the map pages are saved and offered to the public online in one format or another which varies from county to county. </b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="outline: none; text-align: center;"><span style="outline: none;"><b>If these cemetery plat maps end up in a county archives or even at a county library then the possibility goes down, unforunately, that they will be posted online for the public's use. </b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="outline: none; text-align: center;"><span style="outline: none;"><b>Thus, the Tax Map and the <a href="https://www.usgs.gov/" target="_blank">G.I.S</a>. Departments more recently are the ones that offer these types of maps than an Engineer's Department. </b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="outline: none; text-align: center;"><span style="outline: none;"><b>I'm learning that the most likely places in the county government that make sense to post them is right on their own websites if they have the resources available for them to do so (staffing and funding problems are often cited as reasons that hamper getting the job done), however, it may take some instructions for which categories are needed to access first (could be more than one) for a researcher to "work their way through" using their website in order to actually find them.</b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="outline: none; text-align: center;"><span style="outline: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: 400; outline: none; text-align: center;"><b style="outline: none;">The Veterans Graves Registration / W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps posted online are now I'm finding mostly at Tax Map / G.I.S. departments and in various formats (mostly saved as .PDF documents) ranging from a simple single PDF document containing all of the county's cemetery map pages to the more complex format presentations such as those offered by Williams County. </b></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: 400; outline: none; text-align: center;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><br style="outline: none;" /></b></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: 400; outline: none; text-align: center;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;">So it is that we find that Ohio's counties are not following one set format for how these cemetery plat maps are arranged and presented on their websites. However, a researcher can learn to adapt from one county to another if there are good instructions provided on the website that helps them navigate to the right place to bring up the map images to view and save them. </b></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: 400; outline: none; text-align: center;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><br /></b></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: 400; outline: none; text-align: center;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><b style="outline: none;"><b style="outline: none; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;">***********************</span></b></b></span></span></div></span></span></div>Exploring Almost Forgotten Gravesites in the Great State of Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782311455322231548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5691124119466167227.post-91140265712157690282023-11-24T23:53:00.000-05:002023-11-24T23:53:31.733-05:00Spotlighting the Warren County Genealogical Society - a Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society (O.G.S.) - and their well-attended 2023 Cemetery Restoration Workshop - photographs and a link to the handbook produced from the workshop.<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">The Warren County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society was quite busy with their cemetery restoration workshop that was held in September, 2023. </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Stunning <a href="https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipP9xu8Wt6UB7mfsz8B36Ocl18iBERsTnXtkCzkp8UXF4kEG5fLOwRfP1uh4JhUTZA?key=ZFdyS0dHalhBZnJTaGZ1V0syUkMtelpCQkYyd0hB" target="_blank">photographs and highlights</a> of the cemetery restoration workshop are also offered on the website of the Warren County Chapter of O.G.S. </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">***</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">The chapter also produced an outstanding <a href="https://www.wcgsohio.org/product-page/2023-cemetery-restoration-workshop-handbook" target="_blank">255 page workshop handbook </a> of the 2023 cemetery restoration work that is for sale!</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">***</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">"Crosson Cemetery, Harlan Township."</span></b></p><pre class="_28cEs" data-hook="description" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">"This book was created to help researchers interested in cemetery preservation and those responsible for cemetery maintenance. Topics include basic restoration techniques, cemetery maintenance, mapping a cemetery, finding unmarked graves, mortar mixes, tombstone cleaning, tablet straightening, repairing breaks, resetting stones and obelisks, and Ohio Cemetery laws.</span></b></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">**Completely updated again for 2023. Includes handouts from <a href="http://historicgravestone.weebly.com/about-ta-mara-conde.html" target="_blank">Ta Mara Conde, Conservator from Historic Gravestone Services</a>, and information about Crosson Cemetery - </span></b><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; text-align: left;">255 Pages."</span></span></b></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><i>For further reference.</i><span style="font-style: inherit;">:</span></span></b></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/40453/crosson-cemetery" target="_blank">The Crosson Cemetery on Find a Grave</a>. </span></b></p></pre>Exploring Almost Forgotten Gravesites in the Great State of Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782311455322231548noreply@blogger.comWarren County, OH, USA39.4241422 -84.185711511.113908363821153 -119.3419615 67.734376036178844 -49.0294615tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5691124119466167227.post-54356176687732481212023-11-11T18:50:00.000-05:002023-11-11T18:50:25.665-05:00Spotlighting a "Bryan Times" Veterans Day story that highlights the presentation by Brian D. Fritsch of the Williams County, Ohio G.I.S. Department - published on November 11, 2023.<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Sharing a <a href="https://www.bryantimes.com/fritsch-discusses-veterans-gravesite-dashboard/article_b8c6ebef-1c0a-5344-b28f-31a6ca2bd9bd.html" target="_blank">link</a> to this story - "Fritsch Discuses Veterans' Gravesite Dashboard" by the "Bryan Times" covering this program that was part of the most recent meeting of the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/685502636845671/" target="_blank">Williams County, Ohio Genealogical Society</a> - a Chapter of the <a href="https://www.ogs.org/" target="_blank">Ohio Genealogical Society</a>. </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Here is the main <a href="https://www.williamscountyoh.gov/678/GIS-Department" target="_blank">link</a> for Williams County Engineer's Brian D. Fritch, the coordinator of the </span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">G.I.S. (Geographical Information System) Department,</span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"> for the veterans graves locations in the county by utilizing the 1930s - Depression Era - W.P.A. Cemetery plat maps that were created by workers of the Works Progress Administration during that time period. </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">These unique cemetery plat maps list the names of veterans who served in American wars, uprisings, and rebellions since the American Revolutionary War. </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Black coffin-like symbols shown on the grave plots of these maps depict where each listed veteran was buried (i.e. row / grave/ lot). </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">The corresponding number </span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">designating the war they served in </span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">is provided, if known, by their name in the listing of all veterans.</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Shown below is a composite image of a typical Veterans Graves Registration Project (Works Progress Administration - AKA "W.P.A.") Title Page for the cemetery plat maps used for a collection of these maps for a county in Ohio shown on the top half. </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Below the Project Title image is the numbered list designating the wars, uprisings, and rebellions that American soldiers served in through World War I, which was the last war at the time these maps were drawn. </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8YJ5KoYk39xDexZX2h8Z61VxpigjceQiZFE8hsyPIhCj7N7RAmhe7qZBGllglEKfUxJl_jl1jpJ88TAEujRPna0kDlTs-VY-emzfUFHcqWdv5aTTUJ_YPhU7DL1Q6wICfbzwBoeWVeIo1mRse3tOed0a9XU1mkCIAIKShyphenhyphenGQCVR88-uvaKoP4LZ5mRKY/s728/WPA-CEMETERY-PLAT-MAP-LEGEND-FOR-WARS%20WITH%20TEXT%20AND%20FRAME%20&%20ATTRIBUTION%20FOR%20FORM%20CREATION%20&%20WAR%20DESIGNATION.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="728" data-original-width="613" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8YJ5KoYk39xDexZX2h8Z61VxpigjceQiZFE8hsyPIhCj7N7RAmhe7qZBGllglEKfUxJl_jl1jpJ88TAEujRPna0kDlTs-VY-emzfUFHcqWdv5aTTUJ_YPhU7DL1Q6wICfbzwBoeWVeIo1mRse3tOed0a9XU1mkCIAIKShyphenhyphenGQCVR88-uvaKoP4LZ5mRKY/w336-h400/WPA-CEMETERY-PLAT-MAP-LEGEND-FOR-WARS%20WITH%20TEXT%20AND%20FRAME%20&%20ATTRIBUTION%20FOR%20FORM%20CREATION%20&%20WAR%20DESIGNATION.jpg" width="336" /></a></b></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></div><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">This is the main <a href="https://www.williamscountyoh.gov/678/GIS-Department" target="_blank">link</a> for the </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: inherit;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">"Williams County Geospatial Hub.":</span></span></div></span></b><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.4em; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b>"The Williams County Geospatial Hub contains useful information about drainage, location, and parcels in the form of interactive maps, apps, story maps, and dashboards."</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.4em; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Williams County Veteran Grave Locations.:</span></span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.4em; text-align: center;"><u><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i>Williams County Veteran Grave Locations.</i></span></span></b></span><b style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i><span style="color: #274e13;">:</span></i><span style="color: #660000;"> </span></span></span></b></u></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.4em; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><u><a aria-label=" Opens in new window" href="https://wmscoeng.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/1b5a407a28b3405c9e66fb469cbd2d71" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;" target="_blank"></a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><a aria-label="Interactive dashboard Opens in new window" href="https://wmscoeng.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/1b5a407a28b3405c9e66fb469cbd2d71" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Interactive Dashboard</span></a></span></u></b></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.4em; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times;"><b><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: x-large; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><a aria-label=" Opens in new window" href="https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/d72f8f2d77aa40f5acc138cf75c6de59" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank"></a><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a aria-label="Story Map Opens in new window" href="https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/d72f8f2d77aa40f5acc138cf75c6de59" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Story Map</span></span></a></span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.4em; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a aria-label="Web Experience Opens in new window" href="https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/fb3c13f71024484985ab3f9b8d327106" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Web Experience</span></a></span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.4em; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.4em; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b>Sharing here also is a <a href="https://www.williamscountyoh.gov/308/Veterans-Graves-Registration" target="_blank">link</a> to what I feel is a companion website created by the Williams County Recorder. :</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.4em; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">"<span style="text-align: left;">Works Progress Administration (WPA)"</span></span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.4em; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;">"When the Great Depression hit the United States in 1929, the American economy hit rock bottom. The value of the dollar became nearly worthless and millions of Americans lost their jobs. </span></span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.4em; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;">In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced “The New Deal,” a series of new programs designed to pick America back up on to its feet and get the economy moving again. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was one of those programs."</span></span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.4em; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000; font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: left;">"Initially designed to fund the building and improvement of America’s infrastructure, it also funded Veterans Graves Registration, the arts, history, and culture of America. In short, the WPA employed out-of-work Americans who were certified by local agencies as meeting certain qualifications.</span>"</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.4em; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.4em; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Additionally, note on the <a href="https://www.williamscountyoh.gov/308/Veterans-Graves-Registration" target="_blank">left hand side of this page is a listing of each of the townships in Williams County</a>. </span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.4em; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Accessing each township brings up its listing of cemeteries with their map images. It is best to view them full size.:</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.4em; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.williamscountyoh.gov/gallery.aspx?AID=3" target="_blank">Brady</a>, <a href="https://www.williamscountyoh.gov/gallery.aspx?AID=4" target="_blank">Bridgewater</a>, <a href="https://www.williamscountyoh.gov/gallery.aspx?AID=5" target="_blank">Center</a>, <a href="https://www.williamscountyoh.gov/gallery.aspx?AID=6" target="_blank">Florence</a>, <a href="https://www.williamscountyoh.gov/gallery.aspx?AID=7" target="_blank">Jefferson</a>, <a href="https://www.williamscountyoh.gov/gallery.aspx?AID=8" target="_blank">Madison</a>, <a href="https://www.williamscountyoh.gov/gallery.aspx?AID=9" target="_blank">Millcreek</a>, <a href="https://www.williamscountyoh.gov/gallery.aspx?AID=10" target="_blank">Northwest</a>, <a href="https://www.williamscountyoh.gov/gallery.aspx?AID=11" target="_blank">Pulaski</a>, <br /></span></b><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.williamscountyoh.gov/gallery.aspx?AID=12" target="_blank">Saint Joseph</a>, <a href="https://www.williamscountyoh.gov/gallery.aspx?AID=13" target="_blank">Springfield</a>, and <a href="https://www.williamscountyoh.gov/gallery.aspx?AID=14" target="_blank">Superior</a>.</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.4em; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.4em; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Williams County, Ohio cemeteries as listed on <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/search?cemetery-name=&cemetery-loc=Williams+County%2C+Ohio%2C+USA&only-with-cemeteries=cemOnly&locationId=county_2125" target="_blank">Find a Grave</a>. </span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.4em; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></b></p><p></p>Exploring Almost Forgotten Gravesites in the Great State of Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782311455322231548noreply@blogger.comWilliams County, OH, USA41.550760200000013 -84.522218913.240526363821168 -119.6784689 69.860994036178852 -49.3659689tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5691124119466167227.post-37722264305984514192023-10-20T17:19:00.000-04:002023-10-20T17:19:08.764-04:00The City of Shaker Heights will receive sealed bid proposals for the Warrensville West Cemetery Gravestone Restoration project until 12:00 Noon on November 3, 2023<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b> Sharing from Kara Hamley O'Donnell:</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>"<span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">The City of Shaker Heights will receive sealed bid proposals for the Warrensville West Cemetery Gravestone Restoration project until 12:00 Noon on November 3, 2023, and such bids will be publicly opened and read immediately thereafter.</span></b></span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>The project includes the preservation and documentation for up to a total of 57 urgent priority gravestones, as outlined in the Warrensville West Cemetery Historic Preservation Master Plan, available here:</b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b> <a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="https://www.shakeronline.com/DocumentCenter/View/6570/Warrensville-West-Cemetery-Historic-Preservation-Master-Plan?bidId&fbclid=IwAR3yLqFT7PX7HUlRUzixA0ugQrZ28tB6madSNVzqDr3QxkwWukQD0ZGIcCc" rel="nofollow noreferrer" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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Fifteen of the monuments are large, over a dozen broken stones need adhesive repairs and 31 monuments require mortar.</b></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>All work should be performed in accordance with American Institute for Conservation’s Code of Ethics and the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards.</b></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>For the full Legal Notice, visit: <a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.shakeronline.com%2FDocumentCenter%2FView%2F9589%2FLegal-Notice-Warresville-West-Cemetery-Gravestone-Restoration%3FbidId%3D196%26fbclid%3DIwAR1TSG8kZhnTm9JlG0QXiVMeqKyVfi6jeukKnFy4I8m29VGSz4k7kJ5oMRA&h=AT2ylUF3a5XPd5iFOSYt6euu28fkuA1jVVvCXkegX6l0eUM1gUzejsK-JuqXIq5QotdhQUbK3AdrwvUkZpiWzAYCDqGDJPPRwktKi_8_ySB9oJi1GzuoHDksJBZnnOw6tPxVo0Jrq23PJRSD1A&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT0wHPIchUIzjJ_MkCl93EYPlRq8BL8eJURh6E0gBtBt7HIqvLc6exqFe3VvAPW4TDRoiObU15yg6Xqg57VCc0-MrkcpgcBrZYQNXxN6Le3b9l6a64X0rxXTQITxpCIJB-SExwMEpxOwoW6F0CaET_0h5M7CW86RFgk_VU1gdJ-ou1ruZO_h2rZXxIEU2OyjjZ_Ga18G16QJEba3n4gV76E" rel="nofollow noreferrer" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://www.shakeronline.com/.../Legal-Notice-Warresville...</a></b></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>For a copy of the Bid Package contact Alivia Henderson, Director of Purchases, at Alivia.Henderson@shakeronline.com."</b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>https://www.shakeronline.com/788/Warrensville-West-Cemetery</b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>~*~*~*~*~*~*~</b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/43959/warrensville-west-cemetery" target="_blank">The Warrensville West Cemetery on Find a Grave</a></b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~</b></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: times; font-size: medium; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div></div>Exploring Almost Forgotten Gravesites in the Great State of Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782311455322231548noreply@blogger.comShaker Heights, OH, USA41.4739419 -81.537067113.163708063821154 -116.6933171 69.784175736178838 -46.3808171tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5691124119466167227.post-51883945032834265272023-10-18T20:10:00.000-04:002023-10-18T20:10:11.011-04:00Historic Pointing Mortar 101 - Resetting a Headstone Into a Slotted Base - Jonathan Appell - Atlas Preservation <div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/YjQuLB8VkZw?si=ZFL9KxlsRc0mwyTD" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YjQuLB8VkZw/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe></div>Exploring Almost Forgotten Gravesites in the Great State of Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782311455322231548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5691124119466167227.post-81961337954476370702023-10-17T10:08:00.001-04:002023-10-17T10:08:11.595-04:00Sharing the latest Youtube video from Jonathan Appell of Atlas Preservation about one of the types of monuments so many of us have been fascinated with for a number of years and enjoyed seeing them and learning more about their history.:<iframe style="background-image:url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WP50wxq4GFk/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/WP50wxq4GFk?si=2YJOiqzvQ8rLhyas" frameborder="0"></iframe>Exploring Almost Forgotten Gravesites in the Great State of Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782311455322231548noreply@blogger.com