While researching Ohio newspaper stories about the cemetery documentation work conducted by the W.P.A. workers in the 1930s, I became aware of many other "newsy" cemetery stories published on the same pages as the W.P.A. related stories.
I learned that many veterans were buried in unmarked graves.
I learned that fraud by cemetery owners is a crime not unique to our times. I learned that cemetery owners engaged in fraudulent activities to scam unsuspecting people out of their money by not delivering goods to customers that were promised.
Sadly, I also learned that thefts at cemeteries happened then just like they are happening today.
