Sharing this exciting video interview and story from Fox8.com TV in Cleveland.: A first look at the James A. Garfield monument after restoration - and it is stunning!

Cleveland's Channel 8 Fox News reporter Suzanne Stratford's "grand reveal" report titled: 

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"Monument Makeover: A look inside Lake View Cemetery's James A. Garfield Memorial" was posted online on September 28, 2020.

If you are familiar with the James A. Garfield Memorial at the Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, then you know for a number of years the towering statuesque structure looked sadly dark and dirty, certainly not befitting to properly pay tribute to a past United States President and First Lady. 

It required extensive restorative measures on its entire exterior to preserve it for the future.  It would take some time to accomplish, but it had to be done, and so it was and now we get to see it!   

Below are some of my photographs of the Garfield Memorial's exterior taken during a visit to Lake View Cemetery on October 13, 2017.  A new visit is definitely in order soon!:  

While the interior of the Garfield Memorial is not open, we can look forward to touring it in March, 2021 according to the report.

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Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland on "Find A Grave" - 20th U. S. President, James Abram Garfield

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Lake View Cemetery website

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Below is another photograph of the Garfield Memorial taken October 13, 2017:

"Wolves and Flax: The Prior Family in the Cuyahoga Valley Wilderness" - A newly released book by descendant Kenneth Clarke

Sharing the links shown below for the new book by Kenneth Clarke entitled:  "Wolves and Flax: The Prior Family in the Cuyahoga Valley Wilderness."  

It is always exciting to learn of newly published Ohio history.  Plus news of a dedication for a new memorial marker at the gravesite. 

 
"Wolves and Flax" website by Kenneth Clarke

"Wolves and Flax: The Prior Family in the Cuyahoga Valley Wilderness" on Facebook

Find A Grave memorial for Simeon Prior

"Wolves and Flax: The Prior Family in the Cuyahoga Valley Wildnerness" by Kenneth Clarke on Lulu - to order the book. 

The "Wolves and Flax" story on Cleveland.com

Royalton Twp. asking voters for two levies

Royalton Twp. asking voters for two levies

Sharing from Fulton County, Ohio.  Royalton Township.  

This story is a reminder that levy time is coming up.  Please vote for a levy that benefits cemeteries.  Otherwise, township cemeteries can continue to deteriorate as we so well know.  Needed repairs may not get done or have to wait until volunteers step in to fill the void with whatever they are able to handle.  Adequately maintaining the final resting places of our ancestors and relatives depends on us.