Below is the schedule for the upcoming 2024 Atlas Preservation "48 State Tour" conducted by Jonathan Appell.
Monday, August 5, 2024.
These hands-on cemetery workshops conducted by Jonathan Appell are free to all attendees!
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The solar eclipse of 2024, it targets Ohio in a prominent way this time around and that includes streaming through several of Ohio's cemeteries.
Some cemeteries like Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland are holding fee-based events connected to it on April 8, 2024.
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At this point it is not known if any cemeteries are closed off to the public on April 8, 2024, but please if you are planning to visit a cemetery in Ohio on that day particularly to view the Celestial Event, or to actually visit the cemetery and pay your respects while there, please remember cemeteries are sacred grounds to be respected in all ways on all days regardless of what might be going on around them.
Thank you!
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FLORAL HILLS MEMORY GARDENS IN ROSS COUNTY OHIO - FACEBOOK PAGE
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Floral Hills Memory Gardens on Find a Grave
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OHIO COUNTIES WHERE WPA CEMTERY PLAT MAPS HAVE NOT BEEN LOCATED TO DATE OR HAVE BEEN FOUND BUT LACK INFORMATION ON THE MAP PAGES:
1. ADAMS COUNTY – MAP DRAWINGS
ONLY NO OTHER INFORMATION SHOWN ON THE MAPS
– THE RECORDER’S OFFICE.
THE
PAGES WERE PHOTOGAPHED AND REDUCED IN SIZE AND PUT IN A 3 RING BINDER AT THE
ADAMS COUNTY HERITAGE CENTER
2. CARROLL COUNTY
3. GALLIA
COUNTY
4. HIGHLAND
COUNTY
5. HURON
COUNTY – MAP DRAWINGS ONLY NO OTHER INFORMATION SHOWN ON THE MAPS – AT THE RECORDER’S OFFICE.
6. JACKSON COUNTY
7. LUCAS COUNTY
8.
MAHONING COUNTY
9. MEIGS COUNTY
10. MONTGOMERY COUNTY
11. NOBLE
COUNTY
12. OTTAWA COUNTY
13. PERRY
COUNTY
14. PIKE COUNTY – The maps are drawn but no
information on them.
15. PREBLE COUNTY
16. SENECA
COUNTY
17. STARK
COUNTY
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Sharing this latest Video for Floral Hills Memory Gardens.
We'll be looking for updates as we move closer to the next meeting because this abandonment of an Active and once vibrant cemetery by those who should care but don't, should be considered a travesty because that is what it is and should not be happening in Ohio in the 21st Century!
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To keep up with all of the updates directly, please click on the Facebook Page for Floral Hills Memory Gardens in Ross County, Ohio.
Sharing this educational blog post by Milano Monuments located in Bedford, Cuyahoga County, Ohio.:
The next informational meeting centering around the future of Floral Hills Memory Gardens in Chillicothe will be.: Saturday, March 23, from 12:00p.m. to 3:00p.m. at the Myers Meeting Room - Northside Branch of the Chillicothe and Ross County Public Library.
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Sharing from Homer Taft of the Early Settlers Association of the Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio.:
"We have with volunteers through Monroe Street Cemetery Foundation completed scanning many record books of Monroe Street Cemetery, with over a Terabyte of data produced with a view to making maps, lot layouts, and all interment records publicly available soon.
We have now obtained records for:
Erie Street, Denison, and Brookmere Cemeteries, the other oldest Cemeteries, for scanning.
These represent perhaps another 30-40 hours of volunteer time to scan.
Once these are completed, we can move on to some larger projects including.:
Woodland, Harvard Grove, Alger, West Park, and Highland Park.
There are also many other local cemeteries with records that could be scanned.
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In addition, we are working at obtaining scans of the fragile WPA maps of veteran graves at all Cuyahoga Cemeteries so they can be put on line.
Also, are discussing getting online access to all, including the oldest, Probate Court records that are a gold mine for genealogy.
If we try to do this with our first 8 volunteers who have been trained in the high speed, large format equipment at Cleveland Public Library, it will likely take many years, perhaps the lifetimes of the mostly retired who are helping.
We could very much use help from another 16 or more.
If we were to achieve even 20 hours a week of scanning, with average sessions of 4 hours and one volunteer session a month, we'd need 22 folks to do just the 8 Cleveland Cemeteries in one year.
There are also many tasks past scanning.
These need to be put through an AI-OCR process to index and translate the records that requires at least one human eye on every resulting entry to assure accuracy and correct incorrect entries from the transcribed records.
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So we are asking for your help and for recruitment of folks you know who may be interested.
With many more hands and eyes, we may be able to make these records available publicly in a year or so.
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The first step is a training session on the equipment and records to know how to properly handle which takes about 2 hours for every group of up to 4 people at Cleveland Public Library.
Then individuals schedule sessions with the large format scanner and continue the book being scanned until finished."
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Pike County W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps have been added to the right sidebar of the blog.
This is a collection of the W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps for Pike County, Ohio. The maps exist at the Pike County Map office.
The Pike County Recorder has the individual veteran's grave registration cards that are arranged alphabetically for each cemetery.
The townships of Pike County are.:
Beaver
Benton
Camp Creek
Jackson
Marion
Mifflin
Newton
Pebble
Pee Pee
Perry
Scioto
Seal
Sunfish
Union
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This Pike County W.P.A. Cemetery Map collection consists of maps that essentially are original drawings created early in the project with limited handwritten information in the Legend Box that is positioned at the bottom of a map page in the lower right-hand corner. The map pages are numbered.
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Unfortunately, only one of these map pages include the names of any of the veterans who were buried at any of the cemeteries in Pike County.
The page is:
WPA CEMETERY PLAT MAPS - PIKE COUNTY - SEAL TWP - MOUND CEM #2 - SECTIONS A & B & C & D & & L - COL JOHN GUTHERY REV. WAR VET - PAGE 72:
Pike County is a rural county in Southern Ohio and thus there are a great number of smaller size cemeteries that are located in it. Most cemeteries are on county or township roadways.
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Below are are some links regarding Pike County, Ohio Cemeteries as of February 25, 2024:
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Find a Grave Cemetery Listing for Pike County.:
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Ohio Gravestones.org –Pike County cemeteries burial listing.
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This program will begin at Wade Pond, continue with a 1 mile walk on various terrain, and last approximately 90 minutes; the program will conclude prior to the Total Eclipse." - the cost is $25.00 per person.
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There is a separate Total Eclipse Watch Party that follows at Lake View Cemetery - the cost is $50.00 per person.
"Join us at one of the highest points in Lake View for this multi-sensory experience - watch the moon eclipse the sun, hear the wildlife go quiet, and feel the energy shift around you. Eclipse glasses will be available for attendees to safely view the total eclipse, generously provided by the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
VIP Experience – You can be one of the first to enjoy the newly reopened upper terrace of the James A. Garfield Memorial with the VIP Experience special seating to watch the eclipse unfold.
VIP Experience tickets are $50 per person, get yours before this exclusive experience sells out! The upper terrace is accessed by circular staircase, please wear appropriate footwear."
This event begins at 2:30pm, eclipse totality begins at 3:15pm.
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Below are this author's October 6, 2020 photographs of the Garfield Monument at the Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland after it was professionally cleaned.
Green Lawn Cemetery on Facebook.:
"Does your company, church or organization need a meaningful volunteer service opportunity?
With over 6000 veterans laid to rest in 7 military sections at Green Lawn Cemetery, we rely on the generosity of volunteers to give their markers the gentle cleaning they deserve.
We provide all supplies, cleaner, and instruction on how to safely and effectively do the job!
Contact us at 614-444-1123 to schedule your volunteer event. Groups of 10-20 people are ideal."
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Green Lawn Cemetery Association
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info@greenlawncemetery.org
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Green Lawn Cemetery on Find a Grave
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Sharing this video from WOSU - PBS in Columbus, Ohio.
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Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks
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Green Lawn Cemetery in Columbus with over 150,000 interments, is mentioned in the video.
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Green Lawn Cemetery Association
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Green Lawn Cemetery Facebook Page
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Hopefully this link works!
https://poly.cam/capture/FD0E2B7D-2672-4ED0-92CE-1E24B460D3B2
The Old Burying Ground sits on the West side of the gently flowing waters of the Paint Creek separating Greenfield, Madison Township, Highland County, Ohio and Buckskin Township of Ross County on the East side.
Since 2014, this early to mid 1800s burial ground, where some of the town's pioneer settlers rest in peace, has become a most prominent place to be and witness the unfolding preservation progress that is so evident in this conservation project that I'm sure is the pride of Greenfield.
The landscape of cleaned, repaired, and re-set markers and monuments welcome visitors to linger awhile to read their epitaphs and marvel at the unique carvings of motifs and symbols as well as learn their names, dates of death, and their ages at death.
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Thanking all of the dedicated volunteers who have worked to make this transformation possible!
Those hearty souls are primarily from the Greenfield Historical Society who have been trained to properly clean, repair, and re-set the markers and monuments at their town's pioneer cemetery.
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Here we'll focus on three special white marble markers that are admittedly small in size but hold a mighty presence at the Old Burying Ground in Greenfield!
These markers were created in the distinctive discoid design not often seen at most Ohio cemeteries!
