Britton Chaffin Cemetery Update - New Holland, Ohio

Pages 30 - 35 of the Summer 2009 issue of "The Fayette Connection" - Volume #28, #2, newsletter of the Fayette County, Ohio Genealogical Society, offer an in-depth look complete with several "in-progress" photographs of the restoration efforts conducted by Eagle Scout, Bryan Roberts of Troop #112.

Bryan has published his book "Eagle Scout project, August 2008" about his restoration work at the Britton Chaffin Cemetery. A copy has been donated to the Carnegie Public Library in Washington Court House, Ohio.

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Click on the the title of this blog to access the Carnegie Public Library's information about Bryan's book.

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Currently, a map for the Britton Chaffin cemetery exists on the website: "Findagrave.com," however, no burials are listed.

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http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=40034&CScn=Britton&CScntry=4&CSst=37&

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Link below to the Fayette County, Ohio Genealogical Society's website (Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society):

http://www.fayettecogs.org/

Virginia Limes - my mother - buried at Elmwood Cemetery, Lorain, Ohio

Remembering my mother -- Mother's Day. 2009.

Virginia Harriet Zagorsky Limes

Born September 13, 1914 in Lorain, Ohio.

Her parents were Andrew and Josephine (Szczepankiewicz) Zagorsky.

She married my father, Harry Limes, on December 7, 1944 in Lorain County, Ohio.

My mother passed away on February 3, 1995.

Photograph of Harry and Virginia (Zagorsky) Limes taken in 1985 at their home - 208 Arizona Avenue, Lorain, Ohio

Tombstone for my paernts at Elmwood Cemetery, Lorain, Ohio

Friends (Quaker) Cemetery - North Lewisburg, Champaign County, Ohio

Above Photograph:

Robert Hutchinson stone - Friends (Quaker) Cemetery, North Lewisburg, Champaign County, Ohio.
This stone is among three stones that appear to have been recently damaged and broken.
Robert Hutchinson - son of S. & F (Samuel and Fannie) Hutchinson. Died April 19, 1867, age 10 years.

Above Photograph:
David Osborn stone at the Friends (Quaker) Cemetery in North Lewisburg, Champaign County, Ohio. This stone is among three stones that appear to have been recently damaged and broken.
David G. Osborn, son of A. & E. died April 25, 1850; age 24 years, five months and 28 days; per D.A.R. tombstone transcriptions.
Above Photograph:
Levi Winder stone - son of Abner and Hope Ballinger Winder. Levi Winder born September 3, 1846 per Quaker records.
Friends (Quaker) Cemetery, North Lewisburg, Champaign County, Ohio.
This stone is among three stones that appear to have been recently damaged and broken.