The Holmes County W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps have been added to the right sidebar of the blog

Thanking Krista Horrocks, Project Reviews Manager with the State Historic Preservation Office of the Ohio History Connection, for alerting me to these Holmes County W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps being available online through the Holmes County, G.I.S. Department in the PDF format. 

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These maps are now also available in photo / .jpg format on Flickr.  See the link to them on the right sidebar of the blog.

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These W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps follow the familiar format seen in most other such maps in Ohio counties.:  There is a Cemetery Index Page, and the maps have page numbers in the lower right-hand corner. 

Because there is also a cemetery locator map for Homes County, the corresponding cemetery number is shown on the map penciled in above the cemetery name in the Legend Box. 

Below is an example of the cemetery symbol on the map appearing as a cross inside of a rectangle. In this instance it is shown in the color red.: 

On the map page, which is number 43, the number "124" appears above the name Temple Cemetery in Holmes County denoting its number on the county's cemetery locator map. 

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It should be noted that the township for  Salem Cemetery in Holmes County is shown as "Clark Township" on the Holmes County map.  Although it is true that the northern half of the Salem Cemetery is located in Holmes County, the correct township for the cemetery there is Killbuck Township.  

Looking at Coshocton County, which is where the southern half of the Salem Cemetery is situated, that Legend box shows that the cemetery is located in Clark Township.  

So, it is good to keep in mind that both Holmes County and Coshocton County positioned on a portion of its southern border, have townships named "Clark". 

Below are the Holmes County and Coshocton County W.P.A. Cemetery Plat maps for the Salem Cemetery.:

It is easy to see below how the Salem Cemetery straddles the border between Holmes County and Coshocton County.:

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Holmes County is home to large Amish and Mennonite populations, and thus this fact is reflected by some of the names of its cemeteries which are family cemeteries.  Prevalent surnames include.: 

Hershberger, Miller, Raber, Troyer, Weaver, and Yoder.

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Find A Grave's listing of cemeteries in Holmes County, Ohio that have Mennonite identifications.  

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Below is a "World Cat" link to a definitive book about the Amish in Holmes County.:    

"Cemetery directory of the Amish community in eastern Holmes and adjoining counties in Ohio" by Leroy Beachy  

Here is a World Cat Link for the publications by Leroy Beachy.  

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Excerpt from:

https://www.the-daily-record.com/story/news/2015/04/11/old-millersburg-is-focus-200th/19430522007/

By:

DAVID WEISS Holmes County Historical Society:

"George Washington directed a group of soldiers to march to Sandusky. On May 30, 1782, the troops camped at the "Big Spring" just north of Holmesville. During the night William Lee Mactobe, one of the soldiers, died and was buried on the hill southeast of the spring. It is the first recorded death and burial within the limits of the county. At this same location occurred the first recorded birth in the county."

See the Bushey Cemetery in Prairie Township below.  William Lee Mactobe is listed as a burial on the Bushey Cemetery in Prairie Township - page 65.  The war number by his name is shown as "3" -  a war with native American Indians on the frontier.: 

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Spotlighting American Revolutionary War veteran Pvt. Jonathan Grant buried at the McCullah (McCulloch) Cemetery in Salt Creek Township in Holmes County.: 

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This collection of W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps contains an Addenda of "Location Unknown" veterans in Holmes County. 

Four names are listed.:
Arnold Arnold - with a penciled in correction of "Albert" for a given name, who is shown with a number"1" in a circle by his name meaning he would have been an American Revolutionary War veteran.

William Hendrickson, who is also listed as a veteran of the American Revolutionary War,

Arthur Phillips with "31" in a circle by his name denoting he was a veteran of the "World War" or sometimes called the "Great War" at that time;

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Jonathan Wheaton, listed with number "1" in a circle for American Revolutionary War soldier who was buried at the Oak Hill Cemetery in Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio.  

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Additional resource:

“LIBRARY SPACES FOR THOSE WITH NO FACES:  the OHIO AMISH LIBRARY OF BERLIN”

"Blog of the Special Collections Division of the Ohio Library Council"

https://sscdblog.wordpress.com/2016/09/14/library-spaces-for-those-with-no-faces-the-ohio-amish-library-of-berlin/

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I enjoyed working with these maps and learning more about the people and history that are truly unique to Holmes County, Ohio!