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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."

Showing posts with label Wooster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wooster. Show all posts

Friday, December 25, 2020

Wishing everyone a blessed Christmas - It is a white one in Ohio!

Wishing everyone a healthy, safe, and happy Christmas 2020!  

If you live anywhere in Ohio, you just might be seeing snow falling this Christmas!  Where I am it started snowing yesterday and continues today.  The wind is picking up and that will make for snow drifts.  

This is the time of year we can reflect on the days that have gone by during a year that is now rapidly closing.  They are remarkable in so many ways for most of us.  

Quite sadly, of course, because of dealing with COVID-19 since March, 2020, the human toll taken on individuals, our country, and indeed the entire world, simply cannot be calculated.  Thankfully, new help giving us greater hope is happening - the Covid-19 vaccine - and it can't come soon enough.  Unfortunately, it is coming too late for those who have lost their battle with this virus, and possibly those who are still fighting their way through it. Prayers continue for all who have been personally affected by this virus. 

Despite everything negative that has happened in 2020, today is still Christmas.  It only comes once a year for those who celebrate it.  Holding tight to the true meaning of this day allows us to go forward with a renewed strength and resolve.  

Sharing, in the Spirit of Christmas, a link to a Find A Grave memorial for a gentleman born in 1828 who enjoyed spreading the tradition of Christmas with others - Augustus "August" Imgard who died in 1904 and was buried in the Wooster Cemetery in Wayne County, Ohio.  

Monday, December 23, 2019

Sharing this inspiring story about Larry and Bonnie Knox and the Wayne County Cemetery Preservation Society


Here is a link to the article published by the "Daily Record" of Wooster, Ohio on December 21, 2019 entitled:

Excerpt:

"The work the Knoxes of Wooster have done since 2001 to discover, reclaim and restore old gravestones and sites has been in part a scavenger hunt and in part putting together the pieces of a puzzle to preserve the sacred resting places of deceased Wayne County residents. They have dug up bulldozed fields and researched family histories in their quest to literally uncover the past."
The Ohio Genealogical Society offers a link on their website to a PDF file entitled. "Creating a Cemetery Preservation Society in Your County" 
by Bonnie & Larry Knox
Thanking Larry and Bonnie Knox and all of the volunteers with the Wayne County Cemetery Preservation Society for their long time preservation work at several of Ohio's cemeteries! 

Monday, December 25, 2017

Merry Christmas! -- May it be Bright and Shining White!


Merry Christmas to all who celebrate this joyous day!  
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Sharing this story from Wooster, Ohio, published by the "Akron Beacon Journal"
By Paula Schleis
Beacon Journal/Ohio.com that is so appropriate for today. 
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(Photo above from All Saints Cemetery in Northfield, Ohio.) 
(Photo by Linda Jean Limes Ellis)

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Wayne County (Ohio) Cemetery Preservation Society

Click on title to link to the Wayne County (Ohio) Cemetery Preservation Society.
The following information is abstracted from the Wayne County Preservation Society's web site:

"Genealogical Research Requests"

"WCCPS is always ready to help when a cemetery is threatened or someone has a cemetery related question, but please do not submit your requests for personal research at this time. We are still busy reading, recording and researching the tombstone inscriptions in all sixteen Wayne County townships. Until our job is complete, we encourage you to contact the Wayne County Public Library in Wooster, Ohio for genealogical requests. WCCPS is dedicating its time toward gathering information in order to be able to present to the public in the near future the most accurate and complete listing of burials within the borders of Wayne County, Ohio. Although we cannot take time to disseminate information, we do welcome incoming information such as the history of a church or cemetery, church or private burial records, word of a lost cemetery or the knowledge of a person’s burial without a tombstone or marker."
Links located on the site:
"ARTICLES:

The Forgotten Ones Preserving our history.
WCCPS Invited to Seneca County Assisting other groups.
Students Looking for Graves Positive association with the College of Wooster.
Graveyard Preservation Some suggestions by Lynette Strangstad."