Update on Ridgelawn Cemetery in Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio

Today, WKYC, the Cleveland NBC affiliate television station, reported during their 6:00p.m. newscast an update concerning recent mowing having been done at Ridgelawn Cemetery (incorrectly stated/written as "Roselawn") in preparation for Memorial Day activities.

The City of Elyria owns three cemeteries which are listed below (taken from the city's website) Please note that Ridgelawn is the city's oldest cemetery and the website states burials going back to the 1700s:

Cemeteries
Brookdale
N. Murray Ridge
Ridgelawn

Ridgelawn Cemetery - Elyria Ohio - News story May 20 2009

Click on title to read about unresolved maintenance issues currently at the Ridgelawn Cemetery owned and operated by the City of Elyria in Lorain County, Ohio. Below is a link to the website for Elyria and Ridgelawn Cemetery. Memorial Day is upon us and the Lorain County Historical Society has gotten involved to resolve this problem.

City of Elyria:
http://www.cityofelyria.org/CemeteryRidgelawn.html

Lorain county Historical Society website:
http://home.windstream.net/thehickories/


Findagrave.com - Ridgelawn Cemetery:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScn=Ridgelawn&CScntry=4&CSst=37&CScnty=2086

"One Lovely Blog Award" - Thank you to a lovely friend - Linda Hughes Hiser

Thank you, Linda, for bestowing on my limesstones blogspot the "One Lovely Blog" Award.

Below are links to Linda's sites which include her contributions to the wonderful site of Findagrave.com.

The Linda Hughes Hiser Home Page for genealogy at:http://www.geocities.com/lindahiser/All my genealogy files are now at:http://www.ancestry.com/Contributor of burial records at Findagrave:http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=mr&MRid=46786223&MSid=46786223&Flipsidehttp://lindasflipside.blogspot.com/Myspacehttp://www.myspace.com/lindeebabyboomer