ANNOUNCEMENT: The 2022 Ohio Cemetery Grant fund application is now available per the Ohio Department of Commerce

 "CEMETERY GRANT"

"The Ohio Department of Commerce Division of Real Estate and Professional Licensing (REPL) is pleased to announce the availability of the FY2022 Cemetery Grant for qualifying not-for-profit and local government cemeteries. 

Allowable grant requests include those to defray costs of exceptional cemetery maintenance or training cemetery personnel in the maintenance and operation of cemeteries. 

Eligible applicants shall be cemetery operators properly registered with REPL, be a documented not-for-profit entity under the IRS tax code and be in compliance with any applicable endowment and/or preneed cemetery merchandise and services trust accounts. The REPL Superintendent is accepting only online applications.

****Please gather all information prior to application entry. Once you start the application, the information entered cannot be saved and if you exit out of the application you will lose all information previously entered.****

The Cemetery Grant application instructions are being provided as a worksheet guidance document only. This will allow you to gather all of the necessary information prior to submitting the grant application online.

****The application must be answered completely to be considered for grant funds and submitted no later than August 2, 2021."****

Contact: Laura A. Monick at (614) 466-5384 or CemeteryGrants@com.state.oh.us

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80-year-old restores statues in cemetery - Sunset Memorial Gardens - Franklin Furnace - Scioto County, Ohio

"80-year-old restores statues in cemetery"

Sunset Memorial Gardens - Franklin Furnace, Scioto County, Ohio. 

WPA Cemetery Plat Maps posted on the Blog for Trumbull County, Ohio - Plat Book 1 & Plat Book 2

 Links to two collections posted on FLICKR of WPA Cemetery Plat Maps for Trumbull County, Ohio - Plat Book 1 & Plat Book 2 - are now posted on the right sidebar of this blog. 

Trumbull County is the original county of the Connecticut Western Reserve.  

Trumbull County contains the following townships.:  

Bazetta Township, Bloomfield Township, Braceville Township, Bristol Township, Brookfield Township

Champion Township

Farmington Township, Fowler Township

Greene Township, Gustavus Township

Hartford Township, Howland Township, Hubbard Township

Johnston Township

Kinsman Township 

Liberty Township, Lordstown Township

Mecca Township, Mesopotamia Township

Newton Township

Southington Township

Vernon Township, Vienna Township

Warren Township, Weathersfield Township

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Unlike most other Ohio counties, not all of the Trumbull County WPA Cemetery Plat maps show a page number in the lower right corner.  

Also, neither Plat Book 1 or Plat Book 2 has an Index that lists the cemetery names and the map pages they appear on; no doubt because of this situation of some pages not having page numbers while others do.  
There is a Trumbull County map divided into Book No. 1 and Book No. 2 that serves as a cemetery locator map.  It is combined with a listing of the cemeteries that has a "Key" column with a number that corresponds to the number in the circle on the map that designates a cemetery's location.  All of this information is contained on one page making the information quite small to easily read.  

Created below for enlargement purposes, are the listed cemetery names divided into 3 pages, and the map itself has a stand alone page.  

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Following these images is the composite of a typical WPA Cemetery Plat Map Title Page and the Legend of war and uprising designations established for veterans. 

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