Groveport, Franklin County Ohio - Newspaper Story about startling discovery by gravediggers

To read news story, click on the title which links to this "Columbus Dispatch" article

"Grave errors concern village
Budget cuts put off a plan to scan public cemetery to avoid more surprises"
Monday, March 23, 2009 3:09 AM
By Elizabeth Gibson
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

Ridgelawn Cemetery - Elyria, Ohio - vandalism damage to at least 30 gravestones

A news story published in the March 20, 2009 edition of the Lorain "MorningJournal" reports that more than 30 gravestones were toppled over and damaged this past Tuesday evening at the Ridgelawn Cemetery, 385 Columbus Street in Elyria, Ohio, per the Elyria police department.

Please click on the title above for link to the story.

Old Burying Ground in Greenfield, Ohio

An inside the stone fence view of a partially completed section of the reconstructed stone wall enclosing the Old Burying Ground in Greenfield, Ohio. You can see the stones and partial stones that have been reset within the framework of the wall itself.




Above is a link to my Facebook page for the Old Burying Ground photographs that were submitted to me by Earlene Scott of Greenfield, Ohio. (Click title)



Earlene has worked tirelessly on many fronts to spearhead all of the efforts of restoring the Old Burying Ground in Greenfield, Ohio.



Thank you, Earlene, for all you and other volunteers have done and continue to do to preserve tombstones that have broken and fallen from their original burial locations in this early pioneer cemetery.

Quoting Earlene:

"Workers salvaged pieces and parts of tombstones and framed them within the wall so that they were preserved and could still be part of the cemetery. These pieces were lost from their graves thru the years and were stored. This project has allowed the wall to become a living memory for those early settlers and citizens."