Lebanon Cemetery Warren County Ohio

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Lebanon Cemetery
Lebanon, Ohio

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From Page 472 of Beers 1882 History of Warren County:

"The Lebanon Cemetery Association was organized at a meeting in the town hall of Lebanon, June 20, 1850. The capital stock of the association was divided into twenty-five shares of $50 each, and one share was taken by each of twenty-five stockholders. The first officers were: A. H. Dunlevy, President; John E. Dey, Jacob Egbert, Robert Boake and William M. Charters, Trustees; Horace M. Stokes, Clerk; and William F. Parshall, Treasurer. The grounds of the association at first consisted of eight and one-half acres, which were tastefully laid out according to a plat drawn at the request of the President, by John Van Cleve, Esq., of Dayton. Additions have since been made to the grounds, until they comprise nearly fifty acres. The first interment was that of Hannah Seely, who was buried August 29, 1850 [in lot #276]. In 1881, there were 450 lot-holders, and the total number of burials in the cemetery was 1,913, of which 208 were remains removed from the older graveyards. The grounds contain many beautiful and costly monuments, among which is the family monument, simple and chaste in design, of one of Ohio’s most distinguished men – Thomas Corwin."

The cemetery has been expanded a number of times over the years and remains an active cemetery operated by the City of Lebanon Divison of Parks and Cemeteries. Nearly 11,000 burials have been recorded as of June, 2002.

Location:

North side of West Silver Street (Route 123) between Broadway and West Street. The entrance Road is called Hunter Street.
"Ohio Cemeteries 1803-2003" by the Ohio Genealogical Society , Cemetery #12309 [Lebanon Cemetery]
Coordinates: 39° 26' 18"N, 84° 12' 50"W
TRS: Range 3N Township 4E Section 6, Lebanon, Ohio.

Links:

Burials on the Web - City of Lebanon, OH Cemeteries [An every name burial Database]
Memorial Day 2010
Plat of Overall Cemetery provided by Dave McCann, City of Lebanon (LARGE 5 Meg PDF FILE)
USGS GNIS - Lebanon Cemetery; FID #1069770
Google Map at coordinates 39° 26' 18"N, 84° 12' 50"W
Birds Eye View from "Windows Live Local"
Image from Warner's 1867 Wall Map of Warren County, Ohio
Partial transcription for Lebanon Cemetery added to the USGenWeb Archives by Lynn Beatty on 18 Dec 2006
Beers History of Warren County Ohio page 472

Warren County Auditor Links for individual cemetery parcels:

Account #	Parcel ID	Acres
6141382	12064010010	45.998
6139779	12061290080	11.003
6102883	12063270040	4.575
6152216	12063270080	2.9579
	Total Acreage	64.5339

"K. P. Memorial Day," The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), Thursday, June 13, 1895, page 5
"Bodies Transferred," The Western Star (Lebanon, Ohio), Thursday, November 24, 1924

Cemetery Transcriptions:

D.A.R. Turtlecreek Chapter & Warren County Historical Society (available at the Historical Society Library)
- Early Vital Records Vol 5. page 18-71 (1850-1870)
- Early Vital Records Vol 11 (1859-1899)
- Early Vital Records Vol 12 (1899-1918)
- Early Vital Records Vol 14 (1918-1941)
- Early Vital Records Vol 13 (1941-1956)
- Early Vital Records Vol 20 (1956-1974)
Warren County Genealogical Society
- Warren County Cemetery Records Vol 10, Lebanon Cemetery (from tombstone transcriptions read between 1985 & 1989)
  Click for on line Name Index
- The genealogy society also has a photocopy of the original Register of Interments and an alphabetical printout listing all burials in the Lebanon Cemetery
- Arne H Trelvik is in the process of photographing all extant gravestones in the cemetery for the Warren County Genealogical Society Virtual Cemetery Project. The Old Section, Corwin Addition, Southwest Addition and Section A, B, D & G have been completed. Additional photos are being added as time permits.
- Gravestone photos for the Virutal Cemetery Project have also been contributed by Kenneth Lawrence Crow, Gregory J. Eltzroth, James A. Eltzroth, David Frazier, Shawn Matthews, Katherine Lollar Rowland, JamesWarwick and others. [I've lost my list of other contributors. If you have submitted photos for this cemetery and you are not listed, please let me know]

		1910 vintage postcard showing the entrance to Lebanon Cemetery from the Lawrence Aubrey Stuart Collection, donated 11 Mar 2005 by his grandson, Kenneth Lawrence Crow [click on thumbnail for larger image]
		1899 vault - located on the south side of Section H.	by Arne H Trelvik
		Thomas Corwin Monument in Old Section lots 97, 98, 117, 118	by Arne H Trelvik 26 June 2006
		Odd Fellows Monument in Old Section Lot 198	by Arne H Trelvik 16 September 2006
		Shaker Monument in Section C, Lot 99, 100, 147, 148	by Katherine Lollar Rowland 27 July 2004


IN THANKFULNESS TO GOD AND IN LASTING MEMORY OF ALL WHO SERVED THEIR BELOVED COUNTRY IN ALL OUR WARS. A.D. 1953 erected by American Legion, D.A.V. and V.F.W.

Memorial Day, May 25, 2009

Index to Available Tombstone Photos
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