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Our goal is to complete a photographic inventory of all abandoned and no longer used cemeteries in Franklin County.
* -- Photographic inventory completed
* -- Some
information; no photographs yet
Abbreviations:
mov-moved/moved to
ner-no evidence remains
ns-no stones/no stones standing
Alphabetical by Townships:
Blendon | Brown | Clinton | Franklin | Hamilton | Jackson | Jefferson | Madison | Marion | Mifflin | Montgomery | Norwich | Perry | Plain | Pleasant | Prairie | Sharon | Truro | Washington | Bibliography
Alphabetical Index by Cemetery Name
NOTE: Franklin County has, or had, at least two hundred seventy-four known cemeteries in its two hundred year history. Some cemeteries are gone and the only trace is a line in a family Bible, a sentence in a book, or a deed. Some were never recorded and have been plowed over.
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- Bibliography:
- Bareis, George Frederick, comp., History of Madison Township, including Groveport and Canal Winchester, Franklin County, Ohio (Canal Winchester, Ohio,
Geo. F. Bareis Publisher, 1902)
- Franklin County Auditor,
Aerial Photographs
- Franklin County Genealogical Society, Franklin County, Ohio Cemeteries, 11 volumes (Columbus, 1981-1997)
- History of Franklin & Pickaway Counties, Ohio, (Williams Bros. 1880)
- Knauss, William H., The Story of Camp Chase
(Nashville & Dallas, 1906), indexed
- Martin, William T., History of Franklin County
(1858, rpt. 1969)
- Schlegel, Donald M., The Columbus Catholic Cemetery: History and Records, 1846-1874 (Columbus 1983)
- Schlegel, Donald M., The Columbus City Graveyards (Columbus, 1985)
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