Exploring Almost Forgotten Gravesites in the Great State of Ohio

Monday, June 23, 2025

Sharing the latest report from "The Friends of the Old Burying Ground" in Greenfield, Highland County by John King.

"June 20th was a productive day at OBG. The rain had stopped, sun was out!

Michael Anderson, Avery Applegate, and John King cleaned some gravestones, straightened a couple and began repairs on a large stone that was in multiple pieces.

One of the rewards of our cemetery preservation efforts is when people visit the cemetery while we are working and we can help them locate their relatives.

A couple from Washington State, Rhonda and Patrick Clark, were traveling across the country looking for burial sites of Rhonda's family. In particular, they were looking for Edward Bryam, her 5X great uncle.

Would you believe we actually cleaned the gravestones of Edward and Rachel Bryam at our previous work session! Rhonda was thrilled to find them looking so nice. She also looked for some members of the Gibson family and at the cemetery in general.

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Our next tentative date for work will be Friday July 18th. We will start at 12:30 p.m., but it is likely that a couple of us will be there earlier than that. So if you have the time to help or just want to look at the progress, please plan to join us."

"Since 2014, the Old Burying Ground (OBG) in Greenfield, Ohio, has been undergoing work by a group of dedicated volunteers. Throughout each year, work sessions have been held by key volunteers."

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Friends of the Old Burying Ground in Greenfield, Highland County, Ohio.
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The Old Burying Ground on Find a Grave.

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Sunday, June 15, 2025

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

The W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps have been added to the right sidebar of this blog for Marion County, Ohio, in .jpeg format, which is comprised of the following townships.:

Big Island, Bowling Green, Claridon, Grand, Grand Prairie, Green Camp,
Marion, Montgomery, Pleasant, Prospect, Richland, Salt Rock, Scott, Tully, Waldo

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Green Camp Cemetery has a notation for an unknown veteran stating the specific area of the cemetery where he was buried.:

"Unknown buried in old roadway"

Close up view of the red circled notations for the unknown burial in the "old roadway".: