Thanking Tim Foor of Hallowed Ground Cemetery Preservation LLC for locating the H. D. Gowey (Hartland Duportal Gowey) grave marker at the Oak Grove Cemetery in Delaware, Delaware County, Ohio

 Tim Foor, is a well known leading advocate for active but abandoned cemeteries in Ohio.  

Tim's qualifications for this role come from his personal experiences dealing with long-standing problems that have befallen Fairview Memorial Park in Delaware County. 

Tim started the "Cemetery Advocacy" Facebook Group offering support and updated information to help those impacted by the ongoing issues still affecting this once tranquil 20th Century cemetery.
  

 More recently, Tim has been conducting hands-on cemetery and grave marker preservation and restoration work at inactive cemeteries.  
His company is:
 Hallowed Ground Cemetery Preservation LLC.
Hallowed Ground Cemetery Preservation LLC on Facebook

One aspect of cemetery preservation is locating and unearthing grave markers long sunken out of sight.  
Tim has demonstrated his inherent ability to accomplish work of this nature quite well. 
Citing here one such example is his recent locating Hartland D. Gowey's obscured and partially buried grave marker at Oak Grove Cemetery in Delaware.
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(Photos below courtesy of Tim Foor)
  

The overbearing Yucca plant had partially obscured the Hartland D. Gowey marker for an untold number of years - but not any longer!
My thanks to Tim for locating this marker! 

Sharing this story: "Vandalized historic Union Baptist cemetery gets $400,000 for repairs" - Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio

Sharing this much welcomed news that the Union Baptist Cemetery in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio is receiving a grant for $400,000.00 earmarked for much needed repairs.  

This in-depth story is from Channel 9, WCPO, in Cincinnati, written by Kristen Swilley. She confirmed that these funds were received through the National Parks Service African American Civil Rights Grants Program.  

At present the African-American Burial Grounds Network Act has not yet been passed into law.  The Senate version, SB 2827, was introduced by Ohio's senator, Sherrod Brown. 

On the website "Find A Grave" The Union Baptist Cemetery has 4,134 memorials. 

Sharing a link to the website for the Union Baptist Cemetery

Sharing the Second in Series of: " Money for indigent burials not being used in Ohio"

Sharing a link to the second

 in this 3-part series:

 "Money for indigent burials

 not being used in Ohio"

By Conor Morris

"Editor’s note: 

This is the second in a three-part series on a little-known Ohio law about townships and cities’ responsibility to pay for the burial of those who are indigent (we had to break it into a third part due to space limitations in this edition). Check out the third part in our next edition on April 30." 

"The first part can be found here."

Excerpt:
"As The NEWS reported last week, one can scan the websites for dozens of Ohio’s cities, townships and villages and not find a single reference to their responsibility to pay for these burials, which, granted, are typically done at minimal costs, meaning the indigent person is typically cremated and only given a simple marker in a graveyard of the localities’ choice."