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Alton Methodist Episcopal Cemetery is a tiny little cemetery located in the small town of Alton, Ohio. It is just west of I-270 in Columbus on Broad St/US-40/National Road. The cemetery is behind a small church that used to house the Alton Methodist Episcopal congregation.
This cemetery is no longer active and was recently restored as a part of Project Flag, a cemetery restoration program in central Ohio. A few of the markers have been replaced and some restored. You can see numerous sunken spots throughout the grounds. The stones have pretty much been set up in a line and are most likely not on their original plots.
I took these shots at dusk, so they are a bit on the dark side. I enhanced the brightness on one or two to help bring out detail.
I happened to notice Amaranth Abbey one day while doing some research at Union Cemetery. At first, I thought they were connected, but they are separate entities.
This facility was built by the Columbus Mausoleum Company. There are two other large mausoleums in Columbus that were built by the Columbus Mausoleum Company. One is Green Lawn Abbey, an absolutely beautiful facility located near I-71 on Greenlawn Avenue. The other is the Otterbein Mausoleum in Westerville.
Davis Cemetery is a historical cemetery located off of Riverside Drive near Dublin, OH. According to an article in the Columbus Dispatch there are nearly 90 pioneers buried in this cemetery. I'm including the article below for your reading to learn more about the cemetery. It is right off a major street, but it is amazingly peaceful if you block out the cars on the street.
Headstone Inscriptions Like Pages From History
Reprinted from the Columbus Dispatch - June 15, 2003
Written by John Switzer
In the summertime, I like to wander through old cemeteries and read the inscriptions on headstones.
Sometimes I find bits and pieces of tantalizing stories.
One of those finds were the Guernsey County graves of three Confederate soldiers in a cemetery in Old Washington. They were killed during a skirmish when Rebel Gen. John Hunt Morgan rode through there in 1863.
Last week, thanks to a tip from a friend, I found a wonderful story in the Davis Historical Cemetery along Riverside Drive north of Hayden Run Road.
About 90 people are buried in the pioneer cemetery.
One impressive monument marks the graves of John and Ann Davis.
Ann died on June 6 in 1851 at the age of 86 years, five months and eight days, according to the stone. This is the intriguing inscription on it: "Ann Davis was a messenger and carried orders from Gen. Washington to the other commanders in the Revolutionary War in 1779 and 1780."
Her husband, John, had died 19 years earlier. The stone says John was a soldier in a Pennsylvania regiment during the war.
Somebody recently had placed two small American flags in front of the monument.
I had to know more about Ann Davis, and, after a little research, discovered that a Dublin school -- Ann Simpson Davis Middle School -- is named for her.
I called Dublin schools and was told of a book with the history of the schools in that city -- The Stories Behind the Names of the Schools.
The book says Ann Simpson Davis and her husband arrived in Dublin in 1816 after a brief stay in Delaware County. They came to Ohio to claim land as payment for their war service.
At age 16, Ann had been handpicked by Washington as a courier in eastern Pennsylvania.
"She was an accomplished horsewoman, and many people in her neighborhood were used to seeing her go riding, making her a perfect candidate to slip unnoticed through British ranks," according to the book.
"Dressing up as an old woman saved her from being discovered many times during tight moments in Philadelphia."
The courageous woman often carried messages in sacks of grain, in bunches of vegetables or sometimes concealed in her clothing. On occasion, she had to swallow them to avoid detection.
John and Ann, who'd been childhood friends, were married in 1783. They had nine children.
John joined the Army at 16 and fought in campaigns in New Jersey and New York. He was with Washington on Christmas Eve 1776 when the general crossed the Delaware, according to the book.
Four years later, John Davis suffered a serious foot wound that plagued him the rest of his life.
The Davises' brick home on the east side of the Scioto River was demolished in 1977 to make way for a new development.
Another familiar pioneer family name I saw on a gravestone in Davis Cemetery was Sells, probably a relative of John Sells, a co-founder of Dublin. A Dublin school is named for him, too.
Sells was a friend of Leatherlips, the Wyandot chief who lived, and was murdered, along the Scioto in the early 1800s.
The cemetery is a bit difficult to access, as there is no "official" parking anywhere nearby. There is an entrance gate to The Quarry, an expensive housing development, right across the street. It's a back entrance, so no one utilized it the entire time of my visit. You then have to cross Riverside Drive, which can be a bit dangerous due to the high speed traffic. Once across, just walk up the steps to the cemetery.
I also don't know who maintains this cemetery, but it is in a bit of disrepair. The sign in front is quite weathered, but still readable. The day of my visit, the grass was fairly high. I don't know if it gets mowed by anyone or not. The back half of the cemetery is covered by a number of large trees, so the grass wasn't as bad. I also noticed a few stones along the wall, as well as one large obelisk which had toppled over in pieces. The ground beneath had a large sinkhole, so I imagine it's probably water runoff and nature that did this stone in, not vandalism.
Flint Cemetery is a quaint little cemetery located just north of Worthington on Flint Road off of US 23. I knew it was located in the area but actually visited it when I was out on a geocache hunt. It's a GPS activity and someone had placed a cache right near the cemetery.
There are some very old markers here and some quite recent. There are also some Jewish burial sites which have the traditional rocks lying on top of them. I also found an old zinc stone. Definitely worth a visit.
I took quite a few pictures, but seem to be having some problems getting some of them off the memory card and loaded to the server... so here are a few to get you started.
I have visited Green Lawn Cemetery many times. It is extremely large and absolutely filled with history. You could literally spend days here and never see everything.
Green Lawn's volunteers host a program the first Saturday of each month where they talk about the history of many of those interred within the cemetery. Being a Civil War buff, I attended their Civil War presentation recently. Since I brought along my camera, I took some pictures of the markers for some of these notables. I also snapped a few shots of my more favorite memorials throughout the area. I was in a black-and-white mood that particular day, so a lot of the shots reflect that mood.
For more information on Green Lawn Cemetery, Click Here.
I drive by the location for this cemetery fairly regularly. I knew it was hidden back in the woods, but not 100% sure where to find it. According to the book Ohio Cemeteries Addendum put out by the Ohio Genealogical Society... "Stones given to family since shopping center is planned for site." Apparently, that ended up not being the case. Instead, a condo development is going in. It's called "Gabriel's Landing", appropriately after Gabriel Postle. According to local newspaper articles, the cemetery is supposed to be preserved inside a small woods and actually become a part of the housing development.
A few blocks away, near the middle school at the corner of Rome-Hilliard and Sullivant Ave, there stands an historical marker that I've copied below. The area where this cemetery is located has long been a "hangout" and "makeout" area, as used to be evidenced by all the beer cans and condom wrappers strewn about. With the condo development going in, that part seems to have been somewhat curtailed. Unfortunately, because the area was so hidden, the cemetery has all but been destroyed by vandalism. There are very few stones standing, most are overturned and buried in the ground. A group of elementary school students worked to clean up the site a number of years ago, but it has since fallen back into disrepair.
POSTLE FAMILY CEMETERY
1829-1870
There are 48 known members of the Postle family buried in the cemetery. Their stories are interwoven with the history of Prairie Township, Franklin County, and Ohio. In 1810 Shadrach and Anna Stacia Postle were among the first settlers of Prairie Township. Their son Job was a veteran of the War of 182 and later owned the Checker Inn, a popular stopping place on the National Road. In the 1860s, Smith Postle and his son William Sylvester postle were some of the first manufacturers of clay drainage tiles in Ohio. Their products improved drainage in farm fields and fostered the growth of the industry in the state.
Gabriel Postle was the first Postle buried in the cemetery in 1829. Twelve graves are of children under the age of six, which testifies to the hardships endured by the area's early residents. Other graves include those of John Whitehurst, a freed slave who lived with the family of Job Postle, and John Tracy, a veteran of the Civil War. In 1870 Nancy Postle was the last person buried in the cemetery.
DARBY WOODS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
WESTLAND AREA BUSINESS ASSOCIATION
WESTLAND AREA COMMISSION
1998 OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY 22-25
There is very little published data on this cemetery. It was originally founded in 1922 as Memorial Burial Park. It is located at 6959 West Broad Street on the west side of Columbus, Ohio.
It has some very interesting monuments. It also used to have a crematorium in the back. All that remains now is the columbarium which, I'm told, is used to house urns and ashes. If anyone has any further information about this, I'd appreciate hearing from you.
I was on my way to do a video shoot for a client and arrived way too early. So I drove past a beautiful Columbus cemetery, Mt. Calvary. It was after 4:30pm, so the gates were closed. As I got to the edge of the cemetery, I notice a fence and then another cemetery. I load up my US Geological Survey GPS map of Ohio cemeteries and find that indeed, there is a separate cemetery adjacent to Mt Calvary.
I need to do a little research to find out more on this cemetery... but welcome to Temple Israel Cemetery. It is an older site, and my guess is that it is no longer active. Most of the stones I saw were old.
Temple Israel Cemetery is gated shut and I couldn't tell if the gates get opened daily or not. From the looks of the lock and chain, probably not. I only took a few pictures, as I was only able to shoot from the sidewalk over the fence. Thank goodness for a good zoom! Anyhow, the cemetery is somewhat overgrown, but it looks like it does get mowed occasionally.
I have not been able to locate much information about this cemetery, other than according to Leona's site at Rootsweb, this cemetery used to be located where Columbus Children's Hospital currently stands. I will update as I learn more.
Union Cemetery is broken into two sections. I was doing some history research and decided to take some pictures while I was in the cemetery. These shots are from the older portion of the cemetery. The newer section is 1/4 to 1/2 mile away.
Wilcox Cemetery is located just off of Godown Road in Linworth, Ohio. It is actually on property owned by Ohio State University and borders OSU's Airport, Don Scott Field.
Very little information is available about this cemetery. These pictures were snapped as I drove by one day at lunch. Two sets of batteries died in the camera on my first drive by, so I didn't even get the entire sign hanging on the fence. Beth at GraveAddiction can't find any information either, short of a reference in one book that says the cemetery is gone. I did find a couple of links that mention it...
