The W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps for Henry County have been added to the right side-bar of the blog.
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Also, please note that the Henry County WPA Cemetery Plat Maps are now online in .pdf format on at the Henry County Engineer's website.:
Search under the heading Maps/plat books Map Resources.
At the bottom are the WPA Cemetery Plat Maps.
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I am so pleased to share that the Henry County W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps are in excellent condition with all of the pages numbered.
There is a Cemetery Index and a Locator Map for the map collection.
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Here is a link to the Henry County, Ohio cemeteries on Find a Grave.
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Henry County, Ohio is comprised of the following townships.:
Bartlow
Damascus
Flatrock
Freedom
Harrison
Liberty
Marion
Monroe
Napoleon
Pleasant
Richfield
Ridgeville
Washington
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The Henry County Cemetery Index lists 55 cemeteries with 23 cemeteries that have religious affiliation connections.
The St. - i.e. Saint cemeteries have the largest number with 14.
Others include.:
Sacred Heart Cemetery - shown as Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery on Find a Grave.
This cemetery was previously known as St. Michaels, and Poplar Ridge Cemetery that was opened 1840 per Find a Grave. The cemetery photo shows an ornate cross tipped entrance arch constructed of thick heavy stone blocks.
Not far beyond the entrance stands a large towering monument with a crucifix on top erected on a rise at the center area of the cemetery. This is a magnificent monument that certainly would garner the attention of visitors even prior to passing through the entrance arch.
There are seven photographs posted for the Sacred Heart Cemetery on Find a Grave and these two are my favorites.:
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A long distance view of the grand stone entrance arch with the black iron fencing and gate. In this picture just beyond the entrance is the tall memorial monument inside the cemetery for Rev. George A. Verlet.
Also, a close up view photograph of Rev. Verlet's beautiful monument with its large crucifix on top reaching upward toward the heavens above all of the markers and monuments in the cemetery.
The entire scene is peaceful and welcoming complete with its backdrop of the rural countryside. It is easy to see the Sacred Heart Cemetery is regularly maintained.
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For the Cole Cemetery's W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Map, the code for the Lot Category includes s.g.s. meaning single grave section. Under Section there are O.P. for Original Plat or 1-A for 1st Addition.
On Find a Grave the Cole Cemetery shows an alternate name of Wait Creek Cemetery.
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Other religious affiliated cemeteries include.:
U.B. cemeteries - United Brethern (known by other names on Find a Grave.)
A link for the cemeteries on Find a Grave that either have the name of Lutheran or Lutheran as an alternate name. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~
There is one cemetery named "Old Angel" - see W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Map below.
On Find a Grave the cemetery is named Angel.
However, the cemetery was named after a family with the surname of Angel.
Daniel Webster Angel.
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Lastly, we'll take a look at the Gunn Cemetery.
Cyrus D. Gunn, Elijah Gunn, Jr., and Elijah Gunn, Sr., were all veterans.
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"May 22 2015 – TheCrescent-News. Defiance, Ohio"
"FLORIDA -- Nestled in a small,
family cemetery just east of Florida, off Henry County Road 424, is the grave
of a Revolutionary War soldier, Elijah Gunn Sr. The sun-splashed cemetery holds
the graves of Gunn and many of his family members.
The Elijah Gunn Sr. Chapter of
the Daughters of the American Revolution, of Napoleon, recently took on the
project of restoring the headstone on Gunn's grave. The chapter was founded in
1975 with 12 charter members. It currently has 20 active members.
Julie Eberle, the regent of the
Elijah Gunn Sr. Chapter of the DAR, said, "We were talking about a project
for the DAR and decided that the deteriorated condition of Elijah's headstone
was a project we could do."
Eberle said Homier's Monumental,
of Defiance, worked on the headstone and placed a new one on Elijah's grave.
The new headstone will be
dedicated in a DAR ceremony on Saturday, June 13 at 11:30 a.m. at the cemetery.
To reach the cemetery, go east from the village of Florida for about two miles
on Henry County Road 424. There is a gravelled pull-off area on the south side
of the road. Visitors will walk on a sturdy wooden bridge across the canal to
reach the cemetery.
Elijah Gunn and his wife, Anna,
were early pioneers in Ohio and in the Florida area. He was born on Dec. 25,
1759 in Sunderland, Mass. He was the son of Nathaniel Gunn and a descendant of
Jasper Gunn, who emigrated to America from the Highlands in Scotland in 1635.
Elijah served in the Army of the Revolution.
In 1796, Elijah and Anna
(Sartwell) and their children came with the Connecticut Land Company to survey
the Western Reserve. Elijah was employed by the surveyors and Anna, who was the
second pioneer woman to come to Cleveland, cooked for the party and was known
as a "competent nurse" who spent her spare hours caring for the sick
and dying and assisting young mothers. She also had a large family of her own
to care for -- she had six children -- and she was not paid for any of the
services she performed for the company.
The Gunn family stayed for three
years in a log cabin in Cleveland and eventually moved to Waterville in 1815.
Anna was given some land in Cleveland in 1803 by the Connecticut Land Company
for her services.
A few years after their move to
Waterville, the Gunns moved up the Maumee River near Florida and bought land
from the government. Ownership of the present Gunn Family Farm and Homestead
was deeded directly by the government in 1833 to Elijah Gunn Jr., the Gunns'
son. Anna died in 1842 at the age of 84 and Elijah Sr. died in 1855 at the age
of 95.
Elijah Gunn Jr. was born in
Massachusetts and went with his family to Cleveland. He served in the War of
1812 and came back to Ohio shortly after the war. He married Eleanore Grant, a
cousin of President Ulysses S. Grant, and they built a log cabin on the Maumee
River. They were granted about 100 acres of land in 1833, which is the present
Gunn Family Farm. At the time of his death in 1875, Elijah Jr. owned about 500
acres.
Elijah Jr. and Eleanore had six
children, including William Gunn, and raised at least four orphans. Elijah Jr.
died in 1875 and Eleanore in 1838. Elijah had a second wife, Dorcas and they
had three children. Elijah, Eleanore and Dorcas are all buried in the Gunn
Cemetery."
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