Old School Baptist Church Cemetery, Warren County, Ohio

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Old School Baptist Church Cemetery
(aka Clear Creek Graveyard)
Clearcreek Township, Warren County, Ohio

Index to Available Gravestone Photos
List of Known Burials A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [no surname/illegible] [Old School Baptist Church Cemetery Home page]
[To contribute your photos email them in jpg format to Arne H Trelvik with any other details that you would like to share]

This is an old, inactive cemetery originally established as a graveyard for the first Baptist church in Warren County that was once located at this site. There were 231 known burials in the cemetery dating from 1800 (Phebe Kelsey) to 1984 with all but four of them occurring before 1900. There are 10 known veterans buried in the cemetery including 5 from the Revolutionary War, 3 from the War of 1812 and 2 from the Civil War. See list below. The last known burials in the cemetery were of Charlotte Hoffman (1980) & her husband Otto Hoffman (1979) who had lived in the house adjacent to the cemetery and of Anna H. Troeger in 1984. The cemetery is maintained by Clearcreek Township.
Location:	The cemetery is located "off" the east side of State Route 48 about 7/10th of a mile south of State Route 73 [about 1/2 way between State Route 73 and Lower Springboro Road at house number 6890] "Ohio Cemeteries 1803-2003" by the Ohio Genealogical Society , Cemetery #12207 [Old School Baptist Church Cemetery] Coordinates: 39° 32' 10.16"N, 84° 10' 11.57"W TRS: Northeast 1/4 of Northwest 1/4 of Section 30 in Township 4E, Range 4N
Links:	Aerial Image of the cemetery location from Range 4 Township 4 Section 32 from Warner's 1867 Warren County Ohio Wall Map USGS GNIS - Old School Baptist Cemetery; FID #1963102 Google Map at coordinates 39° 32' 10"N, 84° 10' 12"W Warren County Auditor for Property Account # 122584, Parcel ID 09301270040 shows a 1.006 acre parcel in Twp 4 Range 4 Section 30 Aerial Image of the cemetery location from Bing Maps Range 4N Township 4E Section 30 from Warner's 1867 Warren County Ohio Wall Map 1882 History of Warren County, Ohio, page 594 ". . . The first church established in the township was unquestionably the Baptist Church, at or near Ridgeville, known as the Clear Creek Church. It was established in 1797, Rev. James Sutton being the first pastor. . . ."
Transcriptions:	D.A.R. Turtlecreek Chapter & Warren County Historical Society (available at the Historical Society Library) Early Vital Records Volume 4, page 64 - 67 Warren County Genealogical Society Pages 342-347 of Warren County Cemetery Records Volume 6 - see on-line Name Index Our thanks to Warren County Genealogical Society volunteer, Dana Palmer who photographed all extant gravestones on 11 Sep 2010 & 9 Oct 2010. Dana's photos have been added to those previously submitted by Arne H Trelvik in 2004 & 2005 and by John Walker in 2005. All of the photos have been added to this website. These efforts will be incorportated into the new cemetery books planned by the society. If you have photos of any additional gravestones at this cemetery, please consider adding them to the Warren County Virtual Cemetery Project. Other Known Transcriptions none known of
Variant Names:	referred to as "Clear Creek Graveyard near Ridgeville" on pages 893, 901 of Beers History of Warren County

WPA Plat Map of Old School Baptist Church Cemetery #75 (page 52)
listing the following veterans

Row	Grave	Conflict	Name
4	1	Veteran [War of 1812]	Rockhill, Ebz.
15	11	War of 1812	Pence, Jac. [no gravestone found]
10	5	Civil War	Murray, Jno.
unknown		War of 1812	Olinger, Phil. [see note below]

Other veterans said to be buried here but not included on the WPA listing are as follows:

Conflict	Name
Revolutionary War	Arnet, Thomas
Civil War	Brown, David [thought to be wrong]
Revolutionary War	Githens, Joseph Sr.
Revolutionary War	Gray, Daniel
Revolutionary War	Hormel, Henry
War of 1812	Kelsey, James
Civil War	Murray, Wm. P.
Revolutionary War	Venard, Thomas

NOTE:
It is thought that the WPA entry for Phil. Olinger is wrong.
It is believed that the Philip Olinger who served in the War of 1812 lived in Red Lion and was buried in the Warrick Rhodes Cemetery

Photos by Dana Palmer of Terry Easton and Andy Palmer working on the Joshua Davis gravestone on 13 Nov 2010 with help from Megan and Joseph Palmer

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