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."

Saturday, March 14, 2026

Greene County's W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps are added to the right side bar of the blog.

Greene County's W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps have been added to the right side bar of the blog.
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Please note, these map pages contain a watermark - "Internet Image" on each page created by the Greene County Recorders office.  

To obtain a non-watermark page copy from the Greene County Recorder the cost would be $2.00 a page + $1.00 for certification, per their office.  If you are able to visit in person you can print out your own non-water marked page for .10.  

The Recorder's office's copies are in the.PDF format.
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The pages here for this collection of W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps for Greene County are saved in the .jpg version with improvements in clarity, despite the watermark, for better readability.
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Below is an enlargement of the listing shown at the bottom right-hand corner of the Cemetery Index Page (Page 2) that contains the names of veterans with unknown burial locations.: 

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There are some cemeteries that list American Revolutionary War veterans burials, but two stand out as having more considering their size.:

The Pioneer Cemetery in Sugar Creek Township lists four.:
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The Stevenson Cemetery lists 12 American Revolutionary War veteran burials.: 
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Below is a handy guide showing the listing of the numbers associated with the wars ranging from 1 through 33, with number 31 being World War I or the "World War" which was a term used for it at the time the war was being fought.  That is a "good to know fact" if you are researching historical newspapers published from 1914 - 1918 (when the war was fought) and onward until World War II began.   
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Note:  Number 31, the last number on the listing, shows as "World War" which we know it today to having been WWI.
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