Walnut Creek Cemetery (Perry Township - Fayette County, Ohio) Report (August, 2013:
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The older, early pioneer section toward the back and right side of the
Walnut Creek Cemetery across from Buckeye Hills Golf Course desperately needs to
start receiving more routine clean up and maintenance. Taller weeds are
encroaching and obscuring many gravestones of all types. The
cemetery's main gate also is getting covered by weeds that have grown
tall on both sides of it.
Particularly these older areas are in the most need of better care.
It is also unfortunate that so many gravestones have now sunken out of
sight while others are lying on the ground broken in pieces. Dead grass
sits on top of some of the flat markers making them impossible to see
until cleared away.
In 1999, when the Fayette County
Genealogical Society conducted a tombstone inscription transcription of
the Walnut Creek Cemetery, (pages 40 - 58 of the publication:
"Tombstone Transcriptions Perry Township, Fayette County, Ohio 2001") it
was stated (on page 40): "It is the oldest cemetery in the county
that is still in use." I am reasonably sure that is still the case
today. This distinction is indeed an honor for the Walnut Creek
Cemetery making it truly deserving of receiving routine good maintenance
care.
I am willing to bet that there are veterans buried at
Walnut Creek Cemetery from every war that America has fought in going
back to the American Revolution. Thankfully, a veterans' group is going
out to place flags at the gravesites. The flags can be seen peeking
through the weeds at many of the older burial sites.
Many of us do have ancestors buried at Walnut
Creek Cemetery, and some of us live further away and are not able to do
more than clean up around our own ancestors' gravestones during a short
visit to Fayette County.
Hopefully, a way can be found to
restore regular maintenance at all of the gravesites located at Walnut
Creek Cemetery; so visitors walking anywhere on its grounds will enjoy
being there and feel proud that their ancestor's final resting place is
at Walnut Creek Cemetery. Thank you.
Random scenes below of the pioneer burial areas of Walnut Creek Cemetery:
