Spotlighting "Interment.net" -- Children's Home Cemetery - Marietta, Washington County, Ohio

Click on title to link to the recently revised listing of the interments at the Children's Home Cemetery in Marietta, Washington County, Ohio as posted on the website:  "Interment.net."  Records were compiledand updated by Julie Witkowski, per the website.  

Excerpted from the information posted on the "Ineterment.net" website:

"Lat: 39° 26' 32"N, Lon: 81° 27' 20"W

Contributed by Julie Witkowski, Sep 10, 2012, last edited Oct 11, 2012 [jfwski@hotmail.com]. Total records = 77.

This burial site is behind the County Health Bldgs at the corner of Muskingum Drive and Colegate Road. To reach this cemetery, follow the two track road up a hill behind the building. (Note it is a very steep climb.) Once at the top you will need to walk a ways to the area where the marker is.

All names have been recorded. Only the bronze monument/plaque remains. There are no individual markers left. The area has a fence around it and is mowed.

I completed this transcription Sep 10, 2012."

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The Childrens Home Cemetery is also listed on Find A Grave where a few photographs are also posted.  Julie Witkowski is also a member of "Find A Grave" where you can find her public profile as a contributor.

Spotlighting Champaign County, Ohio's Upcoming "Tombstone Trail" Cemetery Tours - Sunday, October 21, 2012 at 1:00p.m. and 2:30p.m. and The Historic Walking Tour of Urbana's Oak Dale Cemetery on Saturday, October 27, 2012

Click on title to link to the "Urbana Daily Citizen" newspaper story published on October 8, 2012 about The Champaign County Preservation Alliance's upcoming "Tombstone Trail" Cemetery Tour.

Excerpts below from the this well written story by Sherry Virts of the Champaign County Preservation Alliance:

"The objectives of the Tombstone Trail project are many. We want to preserve our county’s contribution to history by retelling it. We want to draw attention to the upkeep of our cemeteries. We want to raise funds to help restore grave markers and other CCPA projects. We want to increase tourism in our county so as to show off the beautiful place we live. We also want to connect with cemetery tours moving into Ohio from Indiana. 

To purchase a copy of the CCPA’s first self-guided cemetery tour booklet, Champaign County’s Tombstone Trail 2012, please contact the CCPA at (800) 791-6010. 

After the kick-off guided tours, the self-guided cemetery tour booklet will be available for purchase at the Champaign County Chamber of Commerce or by leaving a message at (800) 791-6010. Call soon to reserve yours." 

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"Some of the stories in the 2012 CCPA Tombstone Trail booklet of Oak Dale Cemetery in Urbana will be incorporated into the evening Historic Halloween Walking Tour in Oak Dale Saturday Oct. 27. The Soroptimist International will partner with the CCPA to once again bring the Historic Halloween Walking Tour through Urbana’s Oak Dale Cemetery. Historian John Bry will return to lead participants on a tour of the cemetery, recalling stories of some of Champaign County’s historical figures buried there, including some of the stories from the Tombstone Trail.

More information is to come regarding times and details of this evening cemetery tour. Everyone is welcome for a little non-scary pre-Halloween fun with this tour. 

The Spring Grove Cemetery tour in the booklet will be strictly self-guided because of limited parking space in the older part of the cemetery. Oak Dale Cemetery gravestones and stories will also be strictly self-guided except for those included in the evening Halloween Walking Tour."

Please read the whole online news article for full details. 

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Currently, on "Find A Grave", the interments at the Oak Dale Cemetery in Urbana number 15,034.  

Also, on "Find A Grave", interments at the Spring Grove Cemetery in St. Paris in Champaign County are presently listed at 2,326. 

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Oak Dale Cemetery (City of Urbana website)

"Tombstone Trail" - Champaign County Preservation Alliance 

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 121 Champaign County Cemeteries are represented with interment information on "Find A Grave."  Something to keep in mind for future visits to Champaign County, Ohio!

Spotlighting the family of Fred and Margaret (Limes) Stiebritz

Below are a row of gravestone photographs for Naomi Stiebritz McGarity, her husband, Carl George McGarity, and her parents, Fred and Margaret (Limes) Stiebritz.  

They are all posted on Find A Grave.