"Remembering Medal of Honor recipients" - From the "Record-Herald" in Washington Court House, Ohio

"Remembering Medal of Honor recipients"

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Buried at the Washington Cemetery in Washington Court House, Ohio:

Corporal Isaac Harrison Carman

Sgt. Major Francis M. McMillen

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Also mentioned in this story.:

Elon Thornton who was the last surviving Civil War veteran in Fayette County, Ohio.

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Good Hope Cemetery:

First Lieutenant David Jones

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Bloomingburg Cemetery:

Corporal Henry Casey

"Families encouraged to report rundown Ohio cemeteries" - From the Urbana Daily Citizen - Urbana, Ohio

"Families encouraged to report rundown Ohio cemeteries"

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Cemeteries in Ohio that have NOT had any burials during the past 25 calendar years, and family cemeteries, as defined in the Ohio Revised Codes, are NOT eligible to be Registered.

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See (D) Sections 4767.02 to 4767.04 of the Revised Code do not apply to or affect a family cemetery or a cemetery in which there have been no interments during the previous twenty-five calendar years. As used in this division, "family cemetery" means a cemetery containing the human remains of persons, at least three-fourths of whom have a common ancestor or who are the spouse or adopted child of that common ancestor.

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Because of their being deemed ineligible to be Registered, neither cemetery category is eligible for complaints against those responsible for them to be submitted to the Ohio Cemetery Dispute Resolution Commission - the "OCDRC".

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The "OCDRC" only accepts, reviews, and acts upon complaints submitted to them regarding Active and Registered Cemeteries (or cemeteries that are Active and SHOULD BE Registered but are not due to no fault of their own). Please keep this fact in mind. 

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A large number of Ohio's cemeteries are older and Inactive, and sadly they are the very ones that visitors would have reasons to file complaints about. However, should they file complaints, the "OCDRC" will reject them for the reasons stated above.

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Sharing a response from Professor Norman R. Weiss, FAIC, FAPT, FSA - in response to a question posed to him by Mr. Ted Kinnari, President of "D/2 Biological Solution"

Sharing with permission by Mr. Ted Kinnari, President of D/2 Biological Solution, the response he received from:

Prof. Norman R. Weiss, FAIC, FAPT, FSA

400 Avery Hall/GSAPP

Columbia University

New York, NY 10027

nrw2@columbia.edu

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"Ted:  Orvus, like Ivory Liquid and Vulpex, has been the subject of much confusion in the conservation community.  It is based on one of the commonly-used anionic surfactants.  Anionic surfactants, found in many household products, are essentially synthetic soaps in which the significant portion of the molecule carries--at one end--a negative charge.  

They should not be confused with non-ionics, despite the apparent similarity of the terms.  Non-ionic surfactants do not carry charge.    

Anionic surfactants are potentially incompatible with "quats" (quaternary ammonium compounds), the antimicrobial components of D/2.    They can reduce D/2's bioactivity, by attaching to the positively-charged site on the "quat" molecules.  Thus, a preliminary washing with Orvus can be counter-productive to the effective use of D/2 in the field.  

Monument conservators should not be doing this.  I understand that there is literature describing Orvus, developed originally for the washing of horses and cattle, as a safe material.  In this situation, however, as a pre-wash for D/2, not only is it not needed, but it is a bad idea."