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Ashtabula County
[edit]Butler County
[edit]Champaign County
[edit]Clark County
[edit]Cuyahoga County
[edit]Cleveland
[edit]Darke County, Ohio
[edit]Franklin County
[edit]History of Madison Township, including Groveport and Canal Winchester, Franklin County, Ohio. Canal Winchester, Ohio: G.F. Bareis, 1902. - available on ancestry.com
Atlas of Franklin County, 1872 (mentioned in Images of America book)
Cemetery | Location | Est. | Size | Type | Description | Notable burials | Image
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Franklinton Cemetery | Columbus |
1799 | Believed to be the oldest cemetery in Central Ohio. Many burials were transferred to Green Lawn Cemetery; 114 remain, including Revolutionary War veterans. The Franklin County Historical Society inducted the cemetery as a Historical Site in 1962. |
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Green Lawn Abbey | Columbus |
1927 | mausoleum | Room for 600 interments. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. | Howard Thurston • Isaac J. Collins |
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Bickett-Richards Cemetery | Upper Arlington 40°01′39″N 83°05′25″W / 40.02749°N 83.09033°W |
Dates to the early 19th century when the area was farmland; the city of Upper Arlington was established in 1918. It is located just east of Riverside Drive, in between Nottingham and Fishinger Roads. | more images on Commons
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Green Lawn Cemetery | Columbus 39°56′24″N 83°01′55″W / 39.940°N 83.032°W |
1848 | 360 acres | Located southwest of downtown. It was intended to also be a significant city park and public gathering area, as part of the "Rural Cemetery" movement of the 1840s and 1850s. In addition to nearly 150,000 interments, it has arbors and a butterfly preserve, and its central pond (also known as "The Pit Pond") is a recognized Audubon Society viewing site. | Samuel Prescott Bush • James Thurber • (more) | more images on Commons
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Mount Calvary Cemetery | Columbus |
1865 | 40 acres | Roman Catholic | The oldest active Catholic cemetery in Franklin County, it is maintained by the Catholic Diocese of Columbus.[1] Burials began in 1865, and the land was consecrated in 1874.[1] Burials from the Old St. Patrick's Cemetery and St. Jacob Cemetery were transferred there in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[2] A devastating flood in 1913 destroyed many plots and records, leaving many graves without markers or identification.[3] | Anna Marie Hahn • Graham McNamee • John Ambrose Watterson | more images on Commons
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Old St. Patrick's Cemetery | Columbus |
1846 | Roman Catholic | No longer in existence. The first Catholic cemetery in Columbus, located next to Saint Patrick's Cathedral in downtown Columbus on the corner of Washington and Mount Vernon Avenues; the land is presently occupied by Columbus State Community College.[2] Burials were transferred to Mount Calvary Cemetery beginning in 1874, and families of the deceased sued unsuccessfully to stop the relocations and the cemetery's closure.[2] |
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Sandy Corners Cemetery | Dublin 40°04′49″N 83°09′26″W / 40.080204°N 83.157264°W |
Located on Rings Road next to the historic St. John's Lutheran Church. It is currently maintained by the City of Dublin. The cemetery is dedicated to the "early pioneers" of Washington Township. Its ironwork fence was constructed from parts of the Hayden Run Bridge. | more images on Commons
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St. Jacob Cemetery | Columbus |
Roman Catholic | No longer in existence. Also known as Frey Cemetery or German Catholic Cemetery; located near East Broad Street and Stanford Road. Burials were transferred to Mount Calvary Cemetery between 1906 and 1908.[2] |
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Union Cemetery | Columbus |
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Hamilton County
[edit]Cincinnati
[edit]- Delphi Universalist Church Cemetery
- Fulton-Presbyterian Cemetery
- Jewish Civil War Memorial (Cincinnati, Ohio)
- New St. Joseph Cemetery
- Old Jewish Cemetery, Cincinnati
- Old St. Joseph's Cemetery
- Pioneer Memorial Cemetery, Cincinnati
- Spring Grove Cemetery
- St. John Cemetery, Cincinnati
- St. Mary Cemetery, Cincinnati
- Union Baptist Cemetery
- The United American Cemetery
- United Jewish Cemetery
- Walnut Hills Cemetery
- Wesleyan Cemetery, Cincinnati
Hardin County
[edit]- Ridgeway Site, prehistoric
Highland County
[edit]Henry County
[edit]Jefferson County
[edit]Lorain County
[edit]Lucas County
[edit]Toledo
[edit]Mahoning County
[edit]Miami County
[edit]Montgomery County
[edit]Dayton
[edit]Noble County
[edit]Perry County
[edit]Cemetery | Locality | Date established | Size | Type | Description | Notable burials | Image |
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Holy Trinity Cemetery | Somerset | 1826-27 | Roman Catholic | Located at 228 South Columbus St; the current church was constructed in 1857. The church and cemetery are still active. | (more images on Commons) | ||
New Lexington Cemetery | New Lexington | Also known as Maplewood Cemetery. Located on 440 Swigart Street. | Januarius MacGahan | (more images on Commons) | |||
South Fork Cemetery | Pleasant Township | Located on Marietta Road near Moxahala. It is still active, and is maintained by the Pleasant Twp. Trustees. It is also known as Saint Pius Catholic Cemetery. | (more images on Commons)
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South Fork Cemetery | Pleasant Township |
3000 BC | a million miles | dead people | Lots of dead people. Okay, not a lot. But some. | Tom Thumb • Cleopatra VII • Ronald Reagan • (more) | more images on Commons |
Ross County
[edit]Sandusky County
[edit]Summit County
[edit]Akron
[edit]Washington County
[edit]Wayne County
[edit]Warren County
[edit]Prehistoric burial sites
[edit]- Bone Stone Graves
- Hodgen's Cemetery Mound (also modern cemetery)
- Ridgeway Site
Registered historic cemeteries
[edit]- Bone Stone Graves
- Calvary Cemetery, Youngstown, Ohio
- Glendale Cemetery
- Grandview Cemetery (Chillicothe, Ohio)
- Green Lawn Abbey
- Greenwood Cemetery (Hamilton, Ohio)
- Mound Cemetery (Marietta, Ohio)
- Mount Tabor Church Cemetery
- Odd Fellows' Cemetery Mound
- Union Township Works II
- Woodlawn Cemetery
- Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum
African American cemeteries
[edit]Jewish cemeteries
[edit]- Jewish Civil War Memorial (Cincinnati, Ohio)]
- Old Jewish Cemetery, Cincinnati
- United Jewish Cemetery
Roman Catholic cemeteries
[edit]- Calvary Cemetery (Cleveland, Ohio)
- Calvary Cemetery, Youngstown, Ohio
- Mount Calvary Cemetery (Columbus, Ohio)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Mt. Calvary Cemetery, Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus, retrieved July 19, 2011.
- ^ a b c d Miller, C. L. (2008), Images of America: Mount Calvary Cemetery, Arcadia Publishing, p. 7-8, ISBN 0738552054.
- ^ Miller 2008, pp. 9, 125.