Consolidated
List
of Lot Owners, Deaths, Interments, Removals,
and Inscriptions
Some thought was given to providing
separate lists of lot owners, chronological interments, and the like for
each of the graveyards in a reproduction of what the city's original
records must have been like. This may have been of interest from a
historian's point of view. However, considering that the main users of the
data would be genealogists and that use of the data by this group should
be facilitated, the best course seemed to be the creation of a
consolidated list of all data for all of the city graveyards. One needs
only to consult this list for direct references to family names and the
index for cross-references, rather than several lists.
Source References
The full references for sources abbreviated
in the consolidated list can be found in the "Bibliography and Sources"
listing in the front of the book. Three major sources require further
explanation for proper understanding of the data presented: the
newspapers, infirmary records, and Green Lawn Cemetery records.
- Newspapers. The references to death
notices in newspapers were based on Death Records from Old Newspapers,
Franklin County, Ohio, July 17, 1811 to Oct. 18, 1832, compiled by
Rosalie R. Haddox and Lorena B. Adamson, "published" in typescript by the
Columbus Chapter, NSDAR. (A copy at the State Library of Ohio was used.)
Only notices in this work of deaths in or near Columbus or Franklinton
were used. Added to these are a few notices in the Ohio State
Journal during gaps in the above compilation and all later notices in
the same paper up to
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