Update: Finding the Burial Location of a Family Member or Friend Interred at a Cemetery of the Cleveland Catholic Diocese

Click on title to link to information about upcoming access for burial searches at the network of cemeteries under the Cleveland Catholic Diocese.  You will need to create an account.

"Coming Soon!

     Find the burial location of a family member or friend -

      Over the past two years the Catholic Cemeteries Association has embarked upon the consolidation of all burial records into a centralized database. Within the next several months our families will have the ability to use this website to find the burial location of family members and friends. 

      To search our database for names and burial locations, you will need to create an account..."
  
"UPDATE
     The data for All Souls Cemetery in Chardon is close to being ready. Within the next few weeks you will be able to search burials in this cemetery.

     Work continues on all the other cemeteries. All Saints Cemetery in Northfield should be available this summer."

Exploring Almost Forgotten Gravesites Through the Website: "ChroniclingAmerica"

Thanks to websites on the internet, we can explore where our ancestors were buried, or re-buried, from anywhere if we know the right ones to research.  One good website is "ChroniclingAmerica"

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THE NEWS HERALD

ESTABLISHED 1837

HILLSBORO, OHIO

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1907

VOL. 71-- NO. 38

Front Page:

“On Tuesday of this week Mr. Pricer,  the sexton of the Greenfield cemetery went out to the Rock Springs Cemetery, near New Petersburg, and took up the remains of the following three persons and interred them in the Greenfield Cemetery. John W. Duffield, father of Messrs Joseph and Daniel of this city who died forty two years ago. Mrs. Joseph Duffield, whose maiden name was Miss Lizzie Brown, whose girlhood was spent at Russell, Ohio, her father, John Brown, had charge of the pumping station on the B. & O. at Russell, Mrs. Daniel Duffield, formerly Miss Ruth McWilliams, daughter of the late Ford McWilliams.

Both women died about slxteen years ago, within three months time. But little was left of two of the bodies as they had returned to dust, but the body of Mrs. Joseph Duffield was in a better state of preservation.”

The lower extremities from the hips down had become petrified and were firm and solid Greenfield Journal.

SOURCE:  ChroniclingAmerica

The News-Herald., December 12, 1907, Image 1
About The News-Herald. (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973

Sharing a Sad Story - Over 100 Gravestones and Monuments Suffered Vandalism at Woodlawn Cemetery in Zanesville, Muskingham County, Ohio

Sharing from the "Zanesville Times-Recorder.com" a feature story published today about the tragic large scale vandalism that occurred at the Woodlawn Cemetery in the city of Zanesville.  A short video accompanies the news story. 

It is estimated that over 100 gravestones and monuments were seriously damaged or destroyed during the criminal attack. 

Anyone with information about this horrific vandalism, please call the Zanesville Police at 740-455-0700.

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Woodlawn Cemetery in Zanesville is listed to have 10,681 interments on "Find A Grave." There are eight famous interments.