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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."

Monday, April 14, 2025

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

The Auglaize County W.P.A. Plat Maps have been added to the right sidebar of the blog.
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Auglaize County, Ohio is comprised of the following townships.:

Clay

Duchouquet

German

Goshen

Jackson

Logan

Moulton 

Noble

Pusheta

Salem

St. Mary's

Union

Washington

Wayne
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The Auglaize County Ohio W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps are in pristine condition!  The pages are numbered and the maps are in very good readable condition. 

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The originals for these map pages are at the Auglaize County Recorder's Office in the .pdf format.
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As is the case with these W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Map collections from other Ohio counties, the highest number of veteran burials are for those who served in the Civil War - Number 19.  

There are veterans who served in other wars as well and are noted as such with their number in a circle. 

Fort Amanda Memorial Park is the resting place for two known Revolutionary War veterans.:
Peter Sunderland
Willian Taylor

(age of William Taylor on Find a Grave shows 110 -111, and thus is being investigated.)
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Some map pages present with the veterans names in the more traditional format of listing the veteran's burial location - Section Lot Grave War Name - while other maps show the veteran's name by his gravesite inside the map itself.  

This is a finer point to keep in mind. Below is a side-by-side example that actually occurs on the same map page.: 

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Mentioning that the name for Fort Amanda Memorial Park AKA Fort Amanda Cemetery in Logan Township has been corrected for it on Find a Grave to reflect this name. 

Previously, it had been erroneously identified as being a National Cemetery.  Upon further investigation, it was confirmed that this cemetery is not an official National Cemetery.

When the W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Map was created for it, the word (Military) was included for its name.:

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The Walnut Hill Cemetery in Goshen Township has a penciled in date at the bottom of some of its pages of 3/28/40 which I take it to mean March 28, 1940.  1940 is among the later years when these cemetery plat maps were drawn up in the W.P.A. program which began in the mid to late 1930s during the Great Depression. 




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Thus, if you are researching veteran burials in Auglaize County, Ohio, these W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps would be a wonderful place to start!