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Lake County Ohio GenWeb Cemeteries |
Lake County has many fine cemeteries. There are also many extinct and forgotten ones. The Lake County Genealogical Society inscription project includes histories of each of the county's cemeteries. Their proofread work is the first link. The others are a variety of interesting burial and cemetery information.
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Lake County Genealogical Society Cemetery Inscriptions. A seriously "monumental undertaking," this project includes all known cemeteries, extant and extinct, in all eight townships (as defined in 1840). Every known gravestone in Lake County has been included and the project was completed for the Ohio Bicentennial, 2003! (off-site) |
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Cemetery Record Addresses Brief locations of Lake County's public and church cemeteries and the addresses to obtain records. |
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Painesville Burials 1847-1865 The Evergreen Burial Register gives page number, name, date, age, and cause of death. Some give lot numbers. Transcribed by Becky Falin. |
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Kirtland "Temple" Cemetery North Kirtland Cemetery from the old readings of the 1920s, transcribed by Becky Falin. |
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Painesville Washington Street Burying Grounds This cemetery, now extinct, had some bodies and stones moved to Evergreen and other places, but those whose families did not move the stones, were buried. This lists the stones that were buried when Harvey High School was built. Transcribed by Becky Falin. |
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Painesville Washington Street Cemetery This old burying ground had a map and some sexton records. Frances Slack compiled this register of burials from these and other sources. |
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Painesville Cemetery Newspaper Citations Many articles were in the Telegraph and other newspapers about burying grounds past and present. |
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Wickliffe Cemetery This small cemetery, hidden behind a medical building is very picturesque. Inscription readings were done by Frances Empfield Teresczuk for the Tombstone Transcription Project. (off-site) |
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Willoughby Hills S.O.M. Center Cemetery Right at the I 90 exit on Rte. 91, this old burying ground was transcribed by Frances Empfield Teresczuk and is in the Ohio GenWeb archive. (off-site) |
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Ohio Veterans Home - Sandusky Cemetery If you had a veteran at the Sandusky Home, this cemetery database has photos of each of the gravestones there. (off-site. Unfortunately this is a broken link, and no site has been found) |
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Gravestone Symbolism Photographs of symbols found on grave markers by Beth Santore on Grave Addiction Submitted by Clarence Bowers. (off-site)
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Last updated 17 June 2010. |
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