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Mount Cemetery near Comargo
aka Gibbs or Comargo Cemetery
Hamilton Township, Warren County, Ohio |
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| Photos taken while working at
the cemetery on June 2nd & 3rd, 2005 by Mark & Matt Montgomery plus
the Roberts Family - Angela, Kelsey, Tim and Renee |
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team at work |
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Mark & Matt Montgomery |
The Roberts Family
Angela, Kelsey, Tim and Renee |
| click on photos for larger images |
Location:
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- This inactive "family" cemetery is located on a 57 acre
farm [private property] in the eastern part of Hamilton Township. The
area has a Morrow mailing address.
No public access is available. Permission to visit the cemetery should
be obtained from the property owners at 9328 Morrow-Cozaddale Road (County
Road 43) which is the 1st driveway on the east side of Morrow-Cozaddale
Road 0.2 miles north from Dallasburg Road (County Road 51). The earliest
known burial in the cemetery is that of Patience Mount
in 1818 and the lastest is that of Daniel Leer in 1910.
- "Ohio Cemeteries 1803-2003" by the Ohio
Genealogical Society , Cemetery #12236 (Gibbs
Cemetery)
- Coordinates: 39° 17' 43"N, 84° 09'
32"W
- Virginia Military District Survey Number 3793
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| Transcriptions: |
- D.A.R. Turtlecreek Chapter & Warren County
Historical Society (available at the Historical Society Library)
- not included in any of their cemetery books.
- Warren County Genealogical Society
- Warren
County Cemetery Records Volume 5, page 61 [also see on-line Name
Index] listing 22 names based on tombstone readings done in 1971
by Franklin & Margaret Conover, Leonard & Bertha Minnich,
and in 1986 by Marguerite Conover & Leona -?-.
A future 2nd edition of Volume 5 will incorporate the information from
the following:
- An April, 1996 survey listing
54 names was done by Dick, Wanda & Steve Sowers, Melody
Doss & Nancy Phipps of Bethany, Illinois. They produced
a privately published manuscript with a plat map, list of interments
plus a photo and drawing of each stone. The manuscript can be found
at both the Warren County Historical Society
and at the Warren County Genealogical
Society
- A June, 2005 survey listing 63
names was done by Mark
D. Montgomery of DuBois, Pennsylvania, his son Matthew
Montgomery, plus Tim, Renee, Angela & Kelsey Roberts.
The results are contained in a privately published manuscript by
Mark
D. Montgomery © 2005 which includes an area map, cemetery
plat, list of burials, tombstone photos and descendant reports for
the families buried here. A copy of the manuscript can be found
at the Warren County Genealogical Society.
Mark is a direct descendant of 7 of the people buried in the cemetery.
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| Variant Names: |
- Gibbs Cemetery
- Comargo Cemetery
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