Mount Gilead to celebrate traditional Memorial Day

Mount Gilead to celebrate traditional Memorial Day

Both Old Greencastle and New Greencastle Cemeteries in Dayton Rely on Volunteers to Get Needed Clean Up Help

Sharing this TV news story from WHIOTV Channel 7 in Dayton, Ohio.:

"Local landscaping company steps in to clean up overgrown cemetery" 

The news video tells the most current situation showing just how severely neglected the grounds are surrounding the gravesites at the New Greencastle Cemetery in Dayton, Ohio.  Thankfully, volunteer landscapers have stepped in to do the job the owners of the cemetery have failed to do on a regular ongoing basis.

Per the website, "Find A Grave" there are 4,558 interments at the New Greencastle Cemetery.

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The New Greencastle Cemetery, which is an active cemetery, has a lapsed registration per the Ohio Department of Commerce's website:

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Link to "Google Reviews" for the New Greencastle Cemetery.

Link to United States (USA) Business Database for the New Greencastle Cemetery

From the "Dayton Daily News" Report of September 23, 2016:
"Cemetery Supt. Headstone Concerns Unfounded"

by Mark Gokavi, Staff Writer

Excerpt:“It’s not going to look like a million-dollar cemetery,” Boykins said. “We’re there to serve a purpose for that community.”

"Guide to the Harrison Township Cemetery Association

Greencastle Cemetery Records"

	Harrison Township Cemetery Association / Greencastle Cemetery Records
	Wright State University, Special Collections and Archives Phone: 937-775-2092 http://www.libraries.wright.edu/special/
	Harrison Township Cemetery Association
	1868-2005
	1940-1989
	6 linear feet (3 boxes)
	The collection contains handwritten and typed documents of burial plots and grave records, maps, financial reports and receipts, deeds, ledgers, meeting minutes, photographs, and correspondence. The records pertain to both New Greencastle Cemetery and Old Greencastle Cemetery, which are burial grounds of some of the founders of Dayton.
	MS-366
	The records are in English ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Resources for Old Greencastle Cemetery: Friends of Old Greencastle Cemetery on Facebook Old Greencastle Cemetery on "Find A Grave"