Exploring Almost Forgotten Gravesites in the Great State of Ohio

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"A cemetery may be considered as abandoned when all or practically all of the bodies have been Removed therefrom and no bodies have been buried therein for a great many years, and the cemetery has been so long neglected as entirely to lose its identity as such, and is no longer known, recognized and respected by the public as a cemetery. 1953 OAG 2978."

Tuesday, December 24, 2024

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

 A link to the W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps for Vinton County, Ohio have been added to the right sidebar of the blog.
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The following townships comprise Vinton County.:
Brown, Clinton, Eagle, Elk, Harrison, Jackson, Knox, 
Madison, Richland, and Wilkesville.
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Vinton County is mostly a rural county. 
At the time these maps were created during the 1930s, 13 cemeteries had the name Farm included for them.


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There are 31 map pages that are in the "Multiple Townships - Smaller Cemeteries" category.
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The Cemetery Index page appears to have been covered with some older type of plastic that has yellowed and wrinkled over time, thus making it more difficult to read all of the cemetery names and numbers for them.

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There is an Addenda page listing the veterans with unknown burial locations.


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Note: 

WPA CEMETERY PLAT MAPS - VINTON COUNTY - WILKESVILLE TWP - WILKESVILLE CEM - VETS NAMES INCLUDING AGNES C LAMB - PAGE 46

Agnes was a Major in the WACS during WWII.

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Also, please note there are penciled-in notations for later wars inside the Legend box for each cemetery.:

 #3 for WWII, #5 for the Korean War, and #7 for the Vietnam War.  

Further note, however, these numbers do not correspond with the original and official W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Map numbers that were created during the time the program was in place, which was during the 1930s.  Those numbers were assigned to other wars.:

#3 - Warfare with Indians on the frontier.
#5 - War with France
#7 - War with Tripoli.
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The overall condition of these maps is fair to poor with the Cemetery Index Page being in the most unreadable condition unfortunately.