A link to the Brown County W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps is on the right sidebar of the blog

There is now a link to the Brown County W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps Collection on Flickr listed among the others on the right sidebar of the blog.  

The .pdf version of these maps can be found on the Brown County G.I.S. website.  

There are 16 townships in Brown County.:  Byrd, Clark, Eagle, Franklin, Green, Huntington, Jackson, Jefferson, Lewis, Perry, Pike, Pleasant, Scott, Sterling, Union, and Washington. 

Unlike most other Ohio counties that have an alphabetical cemetery index (listed either by cemetery name or township and then cemetery name), one could not be located for Brown County.  Thus, without the aid of such a useful reference tool, it was more difficult to be sure that all of the cemeteries were accounted for.  

Below are three cropped images showing the northern, middle, and southern portions of Brown County.:  

Each orange color symbol

represents a cemetery.

 Clicking on (when using a computer) the orange cemetery symbol, brings up a cemetery name. Clicking on the cemetery name, in turn, brings up its W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Map. 

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However, unfortunately, there are cases where the cemetery is named, but the W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Map for it does not appear.  

Otherwise, if a map appears, it will be named with a (cem0000) type of code on the downloadable .pdf document of the actual WPA Cemetery Plat Map. 

The map number's normal position on the  page is located at the lower right corner. However, in some cases the number is either blurred out or that part of the page is gone.  In those instances, the page number for the cemetery's map is identified as "No Page Number" for the purposes of this map conversation project.  

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Shown below are the names of Brown County cemeteries listed alphabetically by township name that appear on the map when clicking on thesymbol designated for cemeteries, however, the W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Map itself is not there.: 

TOWNSHIP             CEMETERY NAME

Eagle                          World War Memorial

Franklin                     German Reform

Franklin                     Lucas Family Cemetery

Green                          Mt. Orab Cemetery

Huntington                 Atherton Cemetery

Huntington                Bowman's Cemetery

Huntington                Cooper Family Cemetery

Huntington                Daulton Family Cemetery

Huntington                Evans Family Cemetery

Huntington                Flaugher Cemetery

Huntington                Gilbert Family Cemetery

Huntington                Harrover Cemetery

Huntington                Kerr Family Cemetery

Huntington                 Lowe Family Cemetery

Huntington                 Pettyjon Family Cemetery

Huntington                Reins Family Cemetery

Huntington                Scott Family Cemetery

Huntington               Wilson Family Cemetery

Jackson                      Beechwoods Cemetery

Jackson                      Bennington Cemetery

Jackson                     Greathouse Cemetery

Jackson                     Name Unknown

Jackson                     Waters Cemetery

Jefferson                   Associate Reform

Jefferson                   Gardner Family Cemetery

Lewis                         Carter Family Cemetery

Lewis                         Clark Family Cemetery

Lewis                         Day Family Cemetery

Lewis                         Ellis Family Cemetery

Lewis                         Richard Family Cemetery

Lewis                         Salee Family Cemetery

Lewis                         Stayton Family Cemetery

Lewis                         Wells Graveyard

Perry                         Engle Cemetery

Perry                         Ursuline Nunn Cemetery

Pike                           Harris Cemetery

Pike                           Moyer Cemetery

Pleasant                    Bridgewater Cemetery

Pleasant                    Cahall Cemetery

Pleasant                    Devore Cemetery

Pleasant                    Early Georgetown Cemetery

Pleasant                    Jennings Family Cemetery

Pleasant                    Lauerman Cemetery

Pleasant                    Lyon Family Cemetery

Pleasant                    McFadden Cemetery

Pleasant                    William Curry Tomb

Pleasant                    Printy Family Cemetery

Scott                          Courts Family Cemetery

Scott                          Martin-Hiler Cemetery

Scott                          Penny Family Cemetery

Sterling                     Small Cemetery

Union                        Bower Family

Union                        Dragoo Family Cemetery

Union                        Stephenson Family Cemetery

Washington             Gregory Cemetery

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While a bit challenging to navigate and work with, these Brown County W.P.A. Cemetery Plat maps were a welcome surprise! It is exciting to learn about their existence on the G.I.S. website. 

Looking forward to learning about other elusive W.P.A. Cemetery Plat maps of Ohio counties coming online in one form or another. 

These often overlooked cemetery maps have served as a helpful resource for genealogists and those wishing to learn more about veterans' gravesites.