Flooding causes major damage at Maumee cemetery

Flooding causes major damage at Maumee cemetery: 

Ice chunks from the Maumee River have caused major damage at Riverside Cemetery in Maumee, knocking headstones on their sides.

Preserving Ohio's Cemeteries on Facebook is Bringing Awareness of the Plight of Ohio's Cemeteries that are in Need of Help

Reminder:

The (closed) Facebook Group: "Preserving Ohio's Cemeteries" covers such topics as documention of burial information, mapping burial locations, discussions about choosing the proper products and methods for cleaning, repairing and re-setting the different types of gravestones found in Ohio, obtaining veteran's markers, and improvements needed for grounds maintenance and ongoing upkeep of gravesites and cemetery landscape. Also, the importance of obtaining permission from owners to enter and visit gravesites located on private property. These are just some of the topics of discussion where ongoing sharing is learning.

It is active group of members who are bringing awareness of the plight of so many of Ohio's cemeteries and gravesites that have for too long been neglected and forgotten. 

Also, the Ohio Revised Codes currently in place are woefully inadequate and do little to protect cemeteries that are inactive or abandoned, and thus are unregistered -- only registered cemeteries are recognized by the Ohio Cemetery Dispute Resolution Commission that accepts complaints filed against those responsible for their care.

If you care about the current and future prospects of cemeteries in Ohio; where so many of our founding pioneer ancestors now rest, please consider asking to join "Preserving Ohio's Cemeteries". Thank you!

(A scene from one of the workshops at the Old Burying Ground Cemetery in Greenfield, Ohio)

Spotlighting the Cleveland Street Cemetery in Downtown Amherst, Lorain County, Ohio

I paid a brief visit to the Cleveland Street Cemetery in downtown Amherst yesterday to photograph at least some of the more prominent markers and monuments in this city owned cemetery. 

For those who may not already know, Amherst, Ohio (as well as its neighbor, South Amherst) has long been known as the Sandstone Center of Ohio and some of this local stone can be found at the Cleveland Street Cemetery.  

It is fascinating learning about the history of the sandstone quarries in Amherst that played a vital role in the city's rich history that has given it the unique identity that it's residents can point to with pride.

Photographs below of gravestones and the Cleveland Street Cemetery's fenced-in landscape as it sat in the somewhat foggy air yesterday where the ground was still partially covered in snow and ice:

 

 (Above two photographs)

 Red sandstone monument for Charles Jacobs

 

 (Above two photographs)
Aiken white bronze (zinc) marker.  

This side is for Lizzie A. Aiken.

 (Above)
White bronze (zinc) marker for Francis Bemis and Mary J. Bemis

 

 

 

 

 (Four above photographs of the most prominent monument at the Cleveland Street Cemetery)
The large Clough Family Monument

The bottom photograph shows a side view for:
Ella J. Clough and Lucien H. Clough

 

 

 (Three above photographs)
Side of marker for Susan Hoffner Trost, wife of Joseph Trost and Kathryn Hoffner.

 

 

   (Two above photographs)
Newer gray granite monument for John Gerlach.

 

(Above Photograph)
Landscape view of part of the Cleveland Street Cemetery showing a variety of monuments and markers that exist at this early Lorain County cemetery.