Exploring Almost Forgotten Gravesites in the Great State of Ohio: Clinton County

"Talking Tombstones" - Living History Tour at the Sugar Grove Cemetery in Wilmington, Clinton County, Ohio. This is a link to the story from the News Journal. This will be a fund raiser event.
The Sugar Grove Cemetery on Find A Grave.

Wednesday, July 21, 2021

A Link to Clinton County WPA Cemetery Plat Maps has been Posted on the Blog's Right Sidebar

Images of the Clinton County, Ohio WPA Cemetery Plat Maps have been posted on the right sidebar of the blog in alphabetic order among the other Ohio counties listed. These images were saved in the .JPG format.

Most Clinton County map pages have page numbers in the lower right corner, but a few do not. There are a few newer maps included as well and noted as such.

This set of maps was created in a similar format adopted for the maps of other Ohio counties.

For each photo album, the title arrangements from left to right are the project title name, followed by the township name, and name(s) of the cemeteries in that township.

The descriptions for each township album show the actual names given each map page in ascending number order.

The map pages that contain more than one cemetery with more than one township represented on the same page are saved separately under the title: "Multiple Townships - Smaller Cemeteries" and placed at the end of the Clinton County Cemeteries Collection created for the county.

Clinton County Cemeteries listed on Find A Grave

Clinton County Genealogy available on FamilySearch

Thursday, September 1, 2016

Are You Using the "Find A Grave" Phone App? If Not, Give It a Try!

Sharing from Michael Anderson who started the Facebook Group "Friends of Sugar Grove Cemetery" for folks who have an interest in preserving the Sugar Grove Cemetery in Wilmington, Ohio.

Michael is also an active member of "Preserving Ohio's Cemeteries" on Facebook. He has shared this information on both sites which is helping a lot of folks learn more about the value of using the "Find A Grave" phone app.:

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"I've just learned how to use the new Find A Grave phone app, and it will add the GPS coordinates to the memorial! This will really help pinpoint the location of the grave on a Google Earth map.

Here's the location of my great grandfather's gravestone in Sugar Grove Cemetery in Wilmington that I cleaned and reset today.

Are you and other Find A Grave volunteers using this app?"

Saturday, November 15, 2014

A Change of Ownership of Sugar Grove Cemetery in Wilmington, Clinton County, Ohio

Thanking Michael Lee Anderson, member of the Preserving Ohio's Cemeteries Facebook Group, for bringing awareness of the news about a change in ownership of the Sugar Grove Cemetery in Wilmington, Clinton County, Ohio that is scheduled to take place January 1, 2015.

Click HERE to link to the Sugar Grove Cemetery's current website which states that there are over 15,000 interments at the cemetery.

Another news story also ran on November 7, 2014.

Click HERE to read the most recent article concerning the Sugar Grove Cemetery.

"The cemetery, which has been privately owned, will become property of the City of Wilmington following years of financial struggles, as the News Journal previously reported.

By law, when a private cemetery board dissolves, a local government entity must take over the cemetery operations."

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Sugar Grove Cemetery (AKA Wilmington Cemetery) has 6,684 interments listed for it on "Find A Grave."

There are seven people buried at Sugar Grove Cemetery that are listed in the Famous Category on Find A Grave.

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Controversy about Selling Civil War Cannons at Sugar Grove Cemetery in Wilmington, Clinton County, Ohio

Click on title to read the story published December 17, 2012 in the "Coshocton Tribune" online paper from the Associated Press about the controversy surrounding a proposed sale of two Civil War cannons at the Sugar Grove Cemetery which is in Wilmington, Clinton County, Ohio. Apparently, the high insurance costs for these original canons are a factor in this decision.

It will be interesting to see what the outcome will be with this proposal and if it will come to pass.

Currently, on "Find A Grave" for Sugar Grove Cemetery in Wilmington there are are 2,567 memorials posted.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Spotlighting the Garrison Corner Cemetery Association - Marion Township, Clinton County, Ohio

Click on title to link to the Garrison Corner Cemetery Association's website.

On the website of "Find A Grave" this cemetery is shown as "Garrison" and currently lists 91 burials. A map is shown to help guide how to locate it. More information about location appears on page 113 of the book, "Ohio Cemeteries 1803 - 2003" published by the Ohio Genealogical Society.