Spotlighting Memorial Day at Green Lawn Cemetery in Columbus, Ohio

Click on title to link to Green Lawn Cemetery's main website.

Below is historical information about Memorial Day services that are held each year at Green Lawn Cemetery (posted on the cemetery's website):

"Memorial Day Service"

"Each year before Memorial Day the Franklin County Veterans Services Commission, the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, local veterans groups and scout troops place United States flags at the graves of thousands of veterans who are interred at Green Lawn.

It is estimated that over thirty thousand veterans are buried in six veterans' sections and on private lots throughout the Cemetery. 

Green Lawn contains two Civil War Sections (M and 28), a Spanish-American War Section (51), a World War I Section (71), a World War II and Korean War Section (104) and a section for the Viet Nam and Gulf Wars (105).

Special Memorial Day Services are held each year at Green Lawn. The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, dressed in period costume, conduct a re-enactment, wreath laying and musket volley salute at the Civil War Circle on Section M. They then march to Section 28 for a similar program at the Soldiers and Sailors monument. 

Green Lawn, American Legion Post #1 and the Franklin County Veterans Services Commission sponsor an annual Memorial Day Service on the Monday of Memorial Day weekend in the center of Section 104. This service includes a speaker - usually prominent Columbus citizens who have served in the military - and flag presentations and a twenty-one-gun salute.

It is very touching to see hundreds of flags waving in the spring morning. And both of these services remind us to remember and appreciate those who have given their lives in the service of our country."

Getting Ready for Memorial Day - 2012 - Sheep Pen Cemetery - Madison Township, Highland County, Ohio

Extending my appreciation to Scott Andersen for picking up flags and military flag holders from the Highland County Veterans Services and placing them at the gravesites of the veterans buried at Sheep Pen Cemetery.

Here is a great view of the new marker for Civil War Veteran Samuel Crooks with the American Flag flying beside it.  

Thanking Scott also for taking this photograph!

The veterans buried at Sheep Pen (Also Known as Limes or Gustin Cemetery) are:

William Beals - War of 1812

Samuel Crooks - Civil War

Joseph Daugherty - Civil War

William R. Irwin, Sr. - War of 1812

Noah McVay, Sr. - War of 1812

N. T.  (Noah T.) McVay - Civil War 

Spotlighting the "Friends of The Cemetery" of Medina County, Ohio - Their Accomplishments and Their Goals AND Their Wonderful Newsletter!!

Click on title to view the website of the "Friends of the Cemetery: Medina, Ohio." 

Their Spring 2011 "Friends of the Cemetery" Newsletter  (Issue 24 - May 2011) highlights restoration work planned for the Old Town Graveyard.  

It also explains gravestone restoration work already completed in 2009 and 2010 at Spring Grove Cemetery, Hamilton Road Cemetery on Pearl Road, Windfall Road Cemetery, and the Sharon Township Cemetery on Route 94 identified as "Sharon Center Cemetery" on "Find A Grave."

Mr. Terry Hart provides a major contribution to this newsletter with his feature story entitled: "Revolutionary War Veterans in Old Town Graveyard."  

Quoting Terry from a recent email to me:

"I published a book in 2010 titled Veterans Buried in Medina County, Volume I: Revolutionary War.  

In it, I researched Revolutionary War veterans and their families, to include their military service, and pictures of their headstones.  

Later this month I will be publishing the second volume on the War of 1812 veterans.  It will be a much larger book as there were obviously more veterans in Ohio at the time.  

The books are available on CD from the MCGS (Medina County Genealogical Society) and are also at a few research libraries such as:  Medina, Summit County, OHS in Columbus, OGS in Mansfield and Fort Wayne." 

The current May 2012 "Friends of the Cemetery" newsletter is also available on their website.

Both the website and the newsletter by the "Friends of the Cemetery, Medina Ohio" are outstanding in design and content.  The organization is non-profit.  

If you have ancestors buried in any of these cemeteries listed above, it would certainly be worthwhile to join the "Friends of Medina Cemetery" and become a member!