"Save Shannon Cemetery" on Facebook! -- Bluffton, Allen County, Ohio

Sharing a link to the "Save Shannon Cemetery Facebook Page"  -- Stop by and give it a "Like" and add your support! 

"Find a Grave" Interments – Shannon Cemetery, Bluffton, Allen County, Ohio

Battels, Caroline  -  FIND A GRAVE # 25634823

b. 1810 d. Nov. 17, 1869

Berry, John  -  FIND A GRAVE # 25634824

b. 1838 d. Mar. 28, 1853

Bryan, Wesley  -  FIND A GRAVE # 25634825

b. 1818 d. Sep. 14, 1846

Clifford, A B  -  FIND A GRAVE # 25634826

b. unknown d. unknown

Clifford, J H  -  FIND A GRAVE # 25634827

b. unknown d. unknown

Clifford, M F  -  FIND A GRAVE # 25634828

b. unknown d. unknown

Clifford, Rosann  -  FIND A GRAVE # 25634829

b. 1818 d. Nov. 6, 1860

Clifford, S E  -  FIND A GRAVE # 25634830

b. unknown d. unknown

Clifford, S M  -  FIND A GRAVE # 25634831

b. unknown d. unknown

Collins, Lorena Cooper  -  FIND A GRAVE # 11704317

b. Feb. 5, 1906 d. Sep. 6, 2005

Connell, Mary  -  FIND A GRAVE # 25634832

b. 1783 d. Aug. 31, 1838

Dearth, Daniel  -  FIND A GRAVE # 25634833

b. unknown d. Jul. 17, 1831

Dearth, Nancy  -  FIND A GRAVE # 7596269

b. 1792 d. Mar. 8, 1850

DeFord, Joseph  -  FIND A GRAVE # 25634834

b. unknown d. unknown -  Pvt 5 MD Reg Rev. War

Drumm, Emma Belle Clemings  -  FIND A GRAVE # 37369079

b. May 6, 1861 d. Jan. 17, 1913

Dunlap, Eli  -  FIND A GRAVE # 25634835

b. 1850 d. Jul., 1878

Elder, Elizabeth Hoffman  -  FIND A GRAVE # 25634836

b. 1808 d. Aug. 26, 1840

Ewing, Elizabeth Clemmens  -  FIND A GRAVE # 67882876

b. May 29, 1819 d. Feb. 7, 1859

Fenton, Delia  -  FIND A GRAVE # 25634837

b. 1833 d. Feb. 12, 1867

Fenton, Robert  -  FIND A GRAVE # 25634838

b. 1776 d. Jul. 6,

Fitzgerald, Martha  -  FIND A GRAVE # 25634839

b. Jun. 4, 1797 d. Apr. 2, 1873

Gardner, S  -  FIND A GRAVE # 25634840

b. unknown d. Jul. 22, 1864

Gaskill, John E  -  FIND A GRAVE # 25634841

b. unknown d. Feb. 9

Gaskill, Katharine  -  FIND A GRAVE # 25634842

b. 1805 d. Nov. 3, 1845

Gaskill, Minerva  -  FIND A GRAVE # 25634843

b. 1836 d. Jun. 9, 1850

Gaskill, Moses  -  FIND A GRAVE # 25634844

b. 1839 d. Feb. 23, 1851

Goble, Daniel C  -  FIND A GRAVE # 25634846

b. Sep. 17, 1783 d. Oct. 7, 1846

Gutman, Jacob  -  FIND A GRAVE # 25634849

b. 1828 d. 1858

Hipsher, Samuel  -  FIND A GRAVE # 25634850

b. unknown d. unknown

Hipsher, William  -  FIND A GRAVE # 25634852

b. unknown d. unknown - Co. "G " 21st Ohio Inf

Huber, Barbara  -  FIND A GRAVE # 25634854

b. 1793 d. Feb. 7, 1870

Huber, Jacob L.  -  FIND A GRAVE # 25634855

b. 1789 d. Oct. 16, 1845

Huber, Mary E  -  FIND A GRAVE # 25634856

b. unknown d. unknown

Iden, Rosanna Clemings  -  FIND A GRAVE # 41328376

b. 1827 d. 1902

Long, Rachel A  -  FIND A GRAVE # 25634858

b. Oct. 18, 1855 d. Dec. 9, 1855

Long, William  -  FIND A GRAVE # 25634859

b. Oct. 30, 1858 d. Dec. 27, 1860

McHenry, Eliza  -  FIND A GRAVE # 25634860

b. 1843 d. Jul. 7, 1848

Murray, George W  -  FIND A GRAVE # 25634861

b. 1824 d. Dec. 13, 1832

Owens, Infant  -  FIND A GRAVE # 25634862

b. unknown d. May 8, 1870

Owens, James K  -  FIND A GRAVE # 25634863

b. 1847 d. May 21, 1861

Owens, Martha J  -  FIND A GRAVE #  25634864

b. 1841 d. Nov. 18, 1851

Stratton, Daniel  -  FIND A GRAVE #  25634866

b. 1831 d. Mar. 11, 1857

Stratton, J  -  FIND A GRAVE #  25634867

b. 1798 d. Dec. 5, 1869

Wilson, Montgomery  -  FIND A GRAVE #  25634868

b. Jan. 11, 1856 d. Sep. 17, 1856

Wilson, Susan  -  FIND A GRAVE #  25634869

b. Feb. 12, 1849 d. Aug. 28, 1854

Clifford Limes (1934 - 1936) - Find A Grave Memorial

Clifford Limes (1934 - 1936) - Find A Grave Memorial

Sharing the Find A Grave memorial for Clifford Limes.  I had submitted a photo request for his gravestone photo and a kind Find A Grave volunteer just fulfilled it.  

It is a humble marker, but it is good to see that he has one.

May is National Historic Preservation Month -- And That Includes Cemeteries!

Sharing these photographs to remind us that May is National Historic Preservation Month!

Please encourage your county genealogical and historical societies in Ohio to include cemeteries as a focus for their meetings and activities!  

Whether it be touring cemeteries, holding ghost walks, or offering hands-on cemetery / gravestone preservation workshops, cemeteries are places for the living.  Places for honoring those who came before us and keeping their gravesites in respectable condition without damaging them -- ensuring that any cleaning, repairing and re-setting of gravestones is done using DO NO HARM best practices.  That means opting for the least abrasive / aggressive methods and tools as possible (think NO POWER TOOLS!); assessing first if any work is deemed to be needed at all.  

Also, remember that a historic cemetery should stay a historic cemetery -- keeping the gravestones in place on their original gravesites. Unfortunately, good intentions can go overboard and turn a cemetery into something it isn't. A cemetery should not have to lose its character and identity to be in good condition.