From the Wilmington Journal - City: Over 200 veterans’ graves, flags targeted in vandalism at Sugar Grove Cemetery; police seek public’s help for info

City: Over 200 veterans's; graves, flags targeted in vandalism at Sugar Grove Cemetery; police seek public's help for info

"Law signed to protect war memorials had roots in Wilmington" - from the Wilmington News Journal

"Law signed to protect war memorials had roots in Wilmington"

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Friends of Sugar Grove Cemetery on Facebook

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Sugar Grove Cemetery in Wilmington, Clinton County, Ohio - on Find A Grave

"Beamed up: Sugar Grove Cemetery bridge being installed"- From the Wilmington News Journal

Beamed up: Sugar Grove Cemetery bridge being installed

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The Sugar Grove Cemetery on Find A Grave

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Friends of Sugar Grove Cemetery on Facebook!

The townships of Fayette Co.: Perry Twp. - Spotlight News Article - August 16 2019

"The townships of Fayette Co.: Perry Twp."

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The three cemeteries being maintained by Perry Township Trustees as of August, 2019.: 

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Walnut Creek (Quaker) Cemetery

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Pvt. William Limes - War of 1812

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Harvey Limes

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Cochran Cemetery
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Sugar Grove (Methodist) Cemetery

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?"

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.

Spotlighting the Orr Family of Perry Township, Fayette County, Ohio

Elizabeth Hesser Snider Doster, widow of Henry Snider and John Doster, Sr.
She had lived with her daughter, Eliza Snider Orr, and the Orr family, and was buried with them at Sugar Grove Cemetery, Perry Township, Fayette County, Ohio

Longer show view of the large Orr monument for the John Orr family buried at Sugar Grove Cemetery, Perry Township, Fayette County, Ohio

Eliza (Snider) Orr, wife of John Orr, buried at Sugar Grove Cemetery, Perry Township, Fayette County, Ohio

Samuel C. Orr, son of John & Eliza (Snider) Orr buried at Sugar Grove Cemetery, Perry Township, Fayette County, Ohio. Note, Civil War veteran who died at Bowling Green, Kentucky on March 8, 1864.

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With thanks to Mr. Sam Bowers, Perry Township Trustee Chairman, for taking these photographs of the large white marble Orr monument at the Sugar Grove Cemetery in Perry Township, Fayette County, Ohio.

Per Mr. Bowers:

"Perry township is about to take the Sugar Grove Cemetery back over.

The church has had the cemetery surveyed and is doing away with the potters field to make room for the driveway and new parking lot.

They are also moving the grave in potters field and paying the township $6,000.00 for the graves they are taking for the parking lot. Or I should say they are paying for the lots that the parking lot and new section of the church are already over."

Update on Sugar Grove Cemetery, Perry Township, Fayette County, Ohio

Abstracted from the Febraury 13, 2012 meeting minutes of the Perry Township Trustees:

"The Board will write a cemetery deed to the Richard Pattion Jr Estate for l grave site in the Sugar Grove Cemetery being SE corner lot #43 (1 grave site), then the Sugar Grove Bd of Trustees can sign it as they are presently the current deed holders. Motion by Smith and sec by Bowers to accept this policy til the deed is transferred back to the township."

Currently, there are 36 interments posted for Sugar Grove Cemetery on "Find A Grave."

There are 3 outstanding requests for gravestone photographs to be taken and posted for Sugar Grove Cemetery.

Update on the Sugar Grove Cemetery, Perry Township, Fayette County, Ohio

Sharing good news that the Perry Township Trustees will be continuing their care and maintenance of the Sugar Grove Cemetery.

From Mr. Bowers, of the Perry Township Trustees:

"Yes, I have a lot of work to do there. There are 3 trees that need to come down that are uprooting some of the stones. And I am going to try and repair some of the foundations to the stones that are leaning and falling over."

Adding my thanks to the Perry Township Trustees for their maintaining the township's cemeteries which also include Walnut Creek (Quaker) Cemetery and the Cochran Cemetery.