Ohio Genealogical Society meeting set for Setp. 9

Ohio Genealogical Society meeting set for Setp. 9

The Belmont County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society meeting is Sunday, Sept. 9 at 3 p.m. in the Genealogy Room, at Barnesville Hutton Memorial Library, 308 E. Main St., Barnesville. 

Program will be a review of the story of the History and Mystery at Founders’ Cemetery by Rick Booth from Now and Then magazine. 

Meeting is free and open to the public. Come join in the excitement of finding your family’s history. Whoever would like to be in First Family or Pioneer Family application will be accepted until Aug 1, 2019. They will have the First and Pioneer Family Banquet on Oct. 11, 2019. 

Go to our website on Facebook to see pictures and event of BCC OGS or e-mail: Belmont County Chapter–OGS bccogs@outlook.com or the Web site: http://www.belmontccogs.org/

Tim Foor's work continues at the Pagetown Cemetery in Morrow County, Ohio

Video from August 24, 2018 of Tim Foor and his grandson cleaning a gravemarker at the Pagetown Cemetery in Morrow County, Ohio.

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Pagetown Cemetery on Find A Grave lists 57 interments.

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Pagetown Cemetery Photos - August 11, 2018

Spotlighting restoration of Box Tombs at the Old Burying Ground in Greenfield, Highland County, Ohio

Congratulations to Scott Andersen who has done a fantastic job of restoring these box tombs seen in this photograph.  The one on the left with its sides of individual stones is the more intricate of the two.  

As we can also see, the dirt area around these box tombs has been tamped down to make it ready for grass to be planted. 

We know that tombstones and monuments need grass around them to add ground support so they do not start to lean.  Without grass they can eventually topple over.  

One of the big mistakes cemetery groundskeepers make is to over-weedwhack around a gravestone, leaving a large circle of just dirt around it.  

As we can see from the markers sitting in slotted bases and some installed directly into the ground, the grass around them not only looks good, but is helping to keep them upright.  

Restoration work at The Old Burying Ground is now in its fifth year!  Almost monthly during the Spring and Summer months organized day-long work sessions are held to revitalize this early Ohio cemetery.  Improvements come one grave marker at a time as the dedicated volunteers work carefully row by row.  The transformation has been phenomenal!  

Indeed the volunteers of the Greenfield Historical Society, and others who have so kindly volunteered with them, have much to be proud of!  

The results of their work now sit impressively right in front of their eyes.  It is a treat to visit the  "OBG" - and to view the photographs showing all of their progress!  

The Greenfield Historical Society

Old Burying Ground Project Summary

A Look Back at Past Events - Tombstone Repair