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

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.

Mike McCann Documents and Confirms Information He Finds on Area Graves Success in Medina County by WCCPS member.

Students Looking for Graves Positive association with the College of Wooster.

Graveyard Preservation Some suggestions by Lynette Strangstad."

PBS History Detectives Program of July 6, 2009 - "Cemetery Alarm"

Click on title to be taken to the PDF transcription of the segment of the PBS program, "History Detectives" that aired Monday, July 6, 2009 about a "Cemetery Alarm" invention which had connections to the state of Ohio and the county of Pickaway, in particular.

The following is taken from the PBS webite about this segment of the program:

"CEMETERY ALARM"
AIRING: Season 7, Episode 3
THE DETECTIVE: Wes Cowan
THE PLACE: Michigan, Ohio
THE CASE:

"History Detectives tackles the case of a man who collects war munitions and has snapped up an item at an estate auction that looked like a Civil War-era weapon.

On closer inspection, and after consulting with other collectors, he decides he has a grave alarm, an explosive device meant to guard against grave robbers. Is this a grave alarm?

History Detectives unearths tales of body snatching and cadaver dissecting, unusual crimes and the most unlikely suspects.
Feature: Body Snatching Around The World

Find out about the dark practice of body snatching and it's history."