Sharing this new video from "Wandering Appalachia" produced by Eli Allen. It is short in length, however, quite visually revealing with narration provided.
It is a virtual cemetery tour that brings a truly stark awareness to just how remote and almost forgotten about a typical small rural burial ground can be!
This video spotlights the Alexander-Downey Cemetery which is only one of the untold number of final resting places for early families, that now exist in one condition or another, in just about every county in the State of Ohio.
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Find a Grave lists this tiny burial ground as the Downey Cemetery in Madison Township in Scioto County, Ohio.
There is only one memorial posted on Find a Grave.
It is for James Alexander.
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The W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps for Miami County, Ohio have been added to the right sidebar of the blog.
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These cemetery maps are clear and easy to read. All pages are numbered.
Unfortunately, not all map pages have their corresponding listing of the names of the veterans on either the map page itself or on a separate page. This is particularly true for some of the larger cemeteries.
The "Legend of Wars" box that is seen on the lower right of a cemetery page lacks details like the listing of the wars and their corresponding numbers (i.e. Civil War is #19); and also any history for a cemetery.
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The largest cemetery in Miami County is Forest Hill Cemetery The W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps for this cemetery consists of 19 pages. A search was made for the map pages that contain the names of the veterans, however, sadly the GIS Department nor the Miami County Recorder had them.
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Here is a link of interest.
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Casstown Cemetery is split between Elizabeth Township and LostCreek Township. Here is part of a statement from a member of the Elizabeth Township Historical Society regarding their portion of the Casstown Cemetery and the cemetery as a whole.:
..."the Elizabeth Township Historical Society ... recently completed a full survey of the burials in the Elizabeth Township section of the Casstown Cemetery (sections A, B, C, & D)., including all the war veterans' graves in the section. Elizabeth Township Historical Society has a project to clean and restore all the veteran headstones in the Elizabeth Twp sections, as well as to publish a book on all the burials and all the war veteran graves in Elizabeth Township. The village of Casstown has full jurisdiction of the Casstown Cemetery, which is an active cemetery, and they maintain it."
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The Casstown Cemetery - Pages 38 and 39.:
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