Exploring Almost Forgotten Gravesites in the Great State of Ohio
Dedicated to cemetery preservation in the great state of Ohio
"A cemetery may be considered as abandoned when all or practically all of the bodies have been Removed therefrom and no bodies have been buried therein for a great many years, and the cemetery has been so long neglected as entirely to lose its identity as such, and is no longer known, recognized and respected by the public as a cemetery. 1953 OAG 2978."
Sunday, March 17, 2024
Clean 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.
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Sharing 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.
Sharing from Homer Taft of the Early Settlers Association of the Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio.:
"We have with volunteers through Monroe Street Cemetery Foundation completed scanning many record books of Monroe Street Cemetery, with over a Terabyte of data produced with a view to making maps, lot layouts, and all interment records publicly available soon.
We have now obtained records for:
Erie Street, Denison, and Brookmere Cemeteries, the other oldest Cemeteries, for scanning.
These represent perhaps another 30-40 hours of volunteer time to scan.
Once these are completed, we can move on to some larger projects including.:
Woodland, Harvard Grove, Alger, West Park, and Highland Park.
There are also many other local cemeteries with records that could be scanned.
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In addition, we are working at obtaining scans of the fragile WPA maps of veteran graves at all Cuyahoga Cemeteries so they can be put on line.
Also, are discussing getting online access to all, including the oldest, Probate Court records that are a gold mine for genealogy.
If we try to do this with our first 8 volunteers who have been trained in the high speed, large format equipment at Cleveland Public Library, it will likely take many years, perhaps the lifetimes of the mostly retired who are helping.
We could very much use help from another 16 or more.
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.
There are also many tasks past scanning.
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.
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So we are asking for your help and for recruitment of folks you know who may be interested.
With many more hands and eyes, we may be able to make these records available publicly in a year or so.
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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.
Then individuals schedule sessions with the large format scanner and continue the book being scanned until finished."
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P.O. Box 39291
Solon, Ohio 44139
Sunday, March 10, 2024
Pike County, Ohio's W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps have been added to the right sidebar of the blog.
Pike County W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps have been added to the right sidebar of the blog.
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.
The Pike County Recorder has the individual veteran's grave registration cards that are arranged alphabetically for each cemetery.
The townships of Pike County are.:
Beaver
Benton
Camp Creek
Jackson
Marion
Mifflin
Newton
Pebble
Pee Pee
Perry
Scioto
Seal
Sunfish
Union
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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 numbered.
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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.
The page is:
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:
Pike County is a rural county in Southern Ohio and thus there are a great number of smaller size cemeteries that are located in it. Most cemeteries are on county or township roadways.
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Below are are some links regarding Pike County, Ohio Cemeteries as of February 25, 2024:
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Find a Grave Cemetery Listing for Pike County.:
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Ohio Gravestones.org –Pike County cemeteries burial listing.
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