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"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."

Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Sharing updates about the most recent vandalism at Lorain's Charleston Cemetery - the city's pioneer burial ground.

Several Lorain/Elyria and Cleveland news outlets are reporting updates about the most recent vandalism attack at Lorain's  earliest and most historic pioneer cemetery: 
The Charleston Cemetery on 6th Street.
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(Photograph below of the entrance
to the Charleston Cemetery
 by Linda Jean Limes Ellis
October 14, 2015)
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The "Elyria Chronicle-Telegram"
Elyria, Ohio
May 5, 2020
News story by Dave O'Brien

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Lorain's "MorningJournal"
May 5, 2020
News story by 
Richard Payerchin
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WTAM - 1100 AM Radio
May 5, 2020
By 
Tom Moore
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Description of the Charleston Cemetery from "Find A Grave" below:
"Charleston Cemetery was known as The Old Bank Street Cemetery. Where the cemetery exists right known, that part of 6th St. was called Polk St., the other half was called Bank St.
Charleston Cemetery is between 6th St. and 7th St., halfway between Oberlin Ave. and Hamilton Ave.. On 15th Sept. 1828, Quartus Gillmore, Addison Tracy and Roswell Crocker, trustees of Black River Township, paid $1.00 to Hiram Messenger for 90 squares rods of land to be used by all the inhabitants of the township as a burying ground."
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Mystery Ironwork piece found at the London Cemetery in Richland County, Ohio - What is its name and purpose?

Thanking Darryl Skip MacUaid McQuate, a member of Preserving Ohio's Cemetery on Facebook, for sharing this photo and granting permission to share it here. 
A lively discussion has arisen over the name and purpose of this metal, likely ironwork, piece Darryl has found at the London Cemetery in Richland County, Ohio.  
Thus far, the general consensus is that this item can just be called a "decorative metal piece to go around a grave." 
At this point, it is not known who designed and/or constructed it.  Nor is it known whose gravesite it was meant for, or a more appropriate name for it that would fit its specific purpose if other than being decorative alone.
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Photo by Darryl Skip MacUaid McQuate  
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