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".:

Below is the full page view for the Green Camp Cemetery:

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The following cemeteries have American Revolutionary War Veterans buried in them. :
Union Cemetery -

Big Island Township - Page 78 - Frazer Gray
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Claridon Cemetery - Claridon Township - Page 11 - Andrew Hyde

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Old Caledonia Cemetery - Claridon Township - Page 88 - John Irey

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Smith Cemetery - Richland Township - Page 102 - Sgt. Israel Clark

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Deal Cemetery - Rock Township - Page 99 - William Stayner and John Lindsey

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Wyatt Cemetery - Waldo Township - Joseph Gillet - (currently there is a duplicate memorial for Joseph Gillet) and Nathaniel Wyatt

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Announcement: Saturday, May 6, 2023 - at 10:00a.m. - Marion County Genealogical Society, Marion, Ohio - Krista Horrocks presents "Cemetery 101" program.

Krista Horrocks will be giving a presentation this coming Saturday, May 6th, 2023 for the Marion County Chapter of O.G.S.: 

Entitled:"Cemeteries 101":

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"Krista Horrocks, an archeologist with the Ohio State Historic Preservation office, of the Ohio History Connection"

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https://marionohmags.weebly.com/

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Location of meeting.:

169 E Church St, Marion, OH 43302, Marion County Historical Society

Contact Information

"Cemeteries 101"

A Small Old Photo of an Unknown Receiving Vault at an Ohio Cemetery is a Mystery No More!

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Sometimes we buy an item we didn't expect to find that at first glance doesn't seem to have too much merit but yet for some odd reason it speaks to us in unusual ways. That was the case for me when I recently saw a small dusty and dog-eared photo at a Washington Court House antique shop (scanned image posted below).  

Right away I noted the handwriting on the front: "Vault in Wash CH Cemetery" which I thought was kind of neat.  But when I turned it over, I saw just one handwritten word "wrong."  I thought well this is a mystery worth my time!  The photograph's price was only $1.00 so I knew I wouldn't feel too cheated if I could not unravel its mystery. 

After buying the photograph, I left the store and took a drive around the Washington Cemetery in Washington Court House hoping to prove the author's claim written on the front of it.  I left the cemetery defeated. 

So, afterward I decided to post the receiving vault photo's scanned image on the Facebook Group "Preserving Ohio's Cemeteries" asking for help identifying where it is located.  Within minutes, two kind group members posted that they thought it is a photo of the receiving vault at the Marion Cemetery in Marion Ohio.  

After conducting careful comparisons between the newer photographs I had seen online and the photograph I purchased, I felt that my photograph was indeed that of the Receiving Vault at the Marion Cemetery in Marion, Ohio.  

The darkened shadowy outline that can be seen directly behind the front gray stone with its gated doors, is the rest of the vault topped by a large cross -- all covered in vine type overgrowth. 

(Attribution: "Marion Cemetery Receiving Vault" by Nyttend - Own work. Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marion_Cemetery_Receiving_Vault.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Marion_Cemetery_Receiving_Vault.jpg)

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But that is not the end to this story.  There is much more yet to be learned about this old vault's history.  I discovered its documented connection to President Warren G. Harding and his wife, Florence.  This receiving vault was their temporary resting place from 1923 to 1927.

Furthermore, thanks to an Eagle Scout Project in 1993 to restore the Receiving Vault, it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places before the end of 1995.

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My dollar investment led to receiving unexpected dividends that for me are priceless! 

Marion County, Ohio - Spotlighting the Brucklacher Cemetery in Tully Township, Marion County, Ohio

Spotlighting the Brucklacher Cemetery   

Also known as 

On "Find A Grave":

"Brooklocker Cemetery, German Emanuel Reformed Cemetery, German Reformed Cemetery, Maple Grove Cemetery"

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And on Page 408 of the book:  "Ohio Cemeteries 1803 - 2003" K. Roger Troutman, editor, published by the Ohio Genealogical Society in 2003:

"Brucklocher/Brooklocker - (Brucklacher) Cemetery"

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On Facebook:

  "Brucklacher Cemetery"

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"New book for sale about the "Brucklacher Cemetery" by Dennis A. Fabian:

"There is a detailed reference book for Brucklacher Cemetery that is now available for purchase! 

It includes a history of the cemetery and the German Emanuel Reformed Church; obituaries; alphabetical, burial date, plot number & surname indexes; historic photos and more! 

Published April 2014. 165 pages, black & white. $19.50 + $4.50 shipping. Please send a message for ordering information."

Urgent Need for Volunteers to Help Clean Up Chapel Heights Memory Gardens, Marion Township, Marion County, Ohio

Thanking Sandy Mader Holladay for bringing to my attention the deteriorated condition at the Chapel Heights Memory Gardens in Marion County, Ohio.  

From Sandy's Blog: "Oozing out my Ears" I learned about the "Friends of Marion County Cemeteries" on "Facebook."

From Sandy's Blog:

"If you have family members buried there, I encourage you to get in the car and go visit, see if you can find your loved ones graves."

The Cemetery is:
Chapel Heights Memory Garden
2622 Marion-Upper Sandusky Road
Marion, Ohio  43302
Phone #: 740-383-1709
"There are several entrances one if off Marion-Waldo Road."

"Can you help?  Many different things need to be done to clean up this cemetery, it will require work and organization.  

Volunteers are needed.  There will be physical work needed, mapping, photographing and lots of organizing.  This is a wonderful way to give back, to work for a solution.  Anyone interested in history, genealogy, community service, as well as those with family members buried here are encouraged to join the effort.  If you're not local or close enough to drive to Marion to physically take part, please consider making a monetary donation to The Genealogy Society to help."

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Currently, there are 974 interments at Chapel Heights Memory Gardens on "Find A Grave." 

Spotlighting the Marion Cemetery Association - Marion, Ohio

Click on title to link to the Marion Cemetery Association's website; specifically, their page about the gravestone restoration work offered by the Association for markers in need of cleaning at the Marion Cemetery. 

I think this is the first time I have come across gravestone restoration work offered directly by a cemetery.  It is definitely a valuable service that other cemeteries should consider important and make available to their customers too. 

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On Find A Grave, currently there are 3,367 memorials posted for the Marion Cemetery.

Spotlighting the Marion Cemetery in Marion, Ohio

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

This is a wonderful and unique cemetery website which also includes fascinating information about Peter Viyuk under the title: "Ukrainian Immigrant’s Renderings of the Dead are for the Living". 

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I'm sure you will enjoy viewing some of his marvelous life-like etchings in granite.

Preserving Marion, Ohio's Quarry Street Cemetery

Click on title to read about preservation efforts going on at the Quarry Street Cemetery in Marion (Marion County) Ohio.  The story is from the "Columbus Dispatch"

Crawford, Marion, and Morrow Counties Ohio - Central Ohio Cemetery Photos

Click on link for email in posting of September 22, 2009 on the "Rootsweb" message boards - to a person(s) who is offering to take tombstone photos at cemeteries located in Crawford, Marion and Morrow Counties, Ohio.  

I do not have any further information about this offer, but am passing the link along for informational purposes only.

Thank you!! 

Cemeteryindex.com

Click on title to access the website: Cemeteryindex.com

The site offers search by surname records for:

Mt. Washington Cemetery - Cincinnati, (Hamilton County) Ohio

http://terradise.101main.com/cemetery/

Thew Cemetery - Caledonia, (Marion County) Ohio

http://www.cemeteryindex.com/thew2/index.html

Haldeman Cemetery - Steam Corners, (Morrow County) Ohio

http://www.cemeteryindex.com/haldeman3/index.html

Maple Grove Union Cemetery - Mechanicsburg, (Champaign County) Ohio

http://www.cemeteryindex.com/maplegrove4/index.html