Spotlighting Saint Colmans Cemetery in Fayette County, Ohio

My thanks to Gail Allen for sharing this nice photograph of a portion of St. Colmans Cemetery (AKA Saint Colman's) which is near her home in Washington Court House, Ohio. 

Gail is quite active with Fayette County, Ohio genealogy and is the editor of the "Fayette Connection" newsletter published by the Fayette County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society.  

The members of FCGS have always been active with their reading of tombstone transcriptions at cemeteries in each township in the county; whether a cemetery is an active one or not.  

FCGS has published booklets of their tombstone transcriptions which are available for purchase. 

This active cemetery is listed as "Saint Colmans" on "Find A Grave."  There are 55 interments listed for it on the website.  

Also, there are two open photo requests for gravestone photographs to be taken and posted to memorials.  

They are for: 

Agnes Creamer and Margaret Hidy.  

Both surnames are quite prominent in the Fayette County area. 

Spotlighting Cordelia Macey DePoy - Scott Andersen shares news of Cordelia Macey DePoy's Restored Unique Monument at the Old Burying Ground in Greenfield, Highland County, Ohio.

Scott Andersen, who has ancestors buried in and around the Greenfield, Ohio area, has shared "Before" and "After" photographs of the unique disk-shaped marble monument of Cordelia Macey DePoy.  

Cordelia died July 12, 1865 and was buried at the Old Burying Ground in Greenfield, Ohio.  

She was married to James Alstott DePoy.  He outlived her and was buried at the Chapel of the Chimes Columbarium and Mausoleum in Oakland, Calfornia.

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Cordelia's daughter, Irene, was buried next to her.  

Irene DePoy's smaller stone was also restored.  

Both gravestones were cleaned and received new footers, which are seen in the longer shot photograph below.

Directly below the "after" photographs appear two "before" images of Cordelia Macey DePoy's stone.  

Left to Right:  "After" restoration - Cordelia Macey DePoy's larger monument. Her daughter Irene's smaller monument is to the right.  Burials at the Old Burying Ground in Greenfield, Ohio.  Both grave markers were restored recently by Hardy Memorials of Greenfield.  

Above is a closer up photograph of the restored Cordelia Macey DePoy monument. 

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Below are the "Before Restoration" photographs of Cordelia Macey DePoy's monument.  

Quoting Scott: 

"What you can't see here is that the stone was leaning back at about a 30 degree angle, slowly falling down the hillside."

Thank you for sharing your photographs with us, Scott.  

Great going!! 

Old Burying Ground in Greenfield, Ohio

Sharing a Newspaper Story about Gravestone Rubbings

Click on title to link to a Huntington, West Virginia news story by The Herald-Dispatch that appears online today about the hobby of gravestone rubbings.  It is written by Jean McClelland.

The Association for Gravestone Studies is mentioned in the article.  The organization's website contains many more details that can best guide someone to understand the "do's and don'ts" of doing gravestone rubbings.