Carlisle Cemetery
Truro Township,
Franklin County, Ohio

Carlisle Cemetery is located near the southeast corner of Noe Bixby Road and East Main Stree, on the grounds of an apartment complex.  The gravestone insrcriptions were last copied by Frank A. Livingston in May 1939.  Due to the poor condition of the cemetery at that time even that record is incomplete.  The earliest stone found by Mr. Livingston was that of Thomas M. Enlows, died 1810, aged 17 years, 4 months, 10 days.  The latest inscription was Amelia Holz Apple, died 18 Apr 1877, aged 15 years, 2 months. There were no stones still standing in 1981, but when we visited the site there were two veteran stones and a few others still standing. We photographed all the gravestones that we found with information on them. Additional information is available for some of the surnames recorded by Mr. Livingston:

Apple Armstrong Butler Carroll Edwards

Enlows Gains Gay Green Hanson

Hedger Hughes Johnston Kidd Linford

Mason Meeks Miller Nickols Noe

Rhoads Sharp Shumaker Sommers Stout

Terry Thompson Townsend Trumble Turner

If you believe that one (or more) of your ancestors might be buried at this cemetery contact me at and I will see what I can find. Please include the full name and at least the approximate dates you are searching.

The WPA plat map of the cemetery shows that there could have been as many as 512 graves in the cemetery.

Aerial Photo of Cemetery,
(Spring 2004)

Gravestones

(Click on the underlined name to view the photograph)

• Unknown, 3 broken stones (typical example of several found and not photographed)
  • Middle stone might be: [Sarah], wife of ??? Han[son] & dau of Thomas Parson, Raised on the South Branch of ??? Hardy Co. & ___ moved to this State in 1806, died Feb 13, 1853, aged 66 ys 9 mo 22 ds (Larger version 131kb)

• Butler, LIEUT, A., 27 US INF, War of 1812, 1784-1854
  • "Lieut. Arora or Ahdory Butler," source: Roster of Ohio Soldiers in the War of 1812, page 156 (Ohio Historical Society)

• Hughes, Elizabeth, dau of [J] & A, died [July] 22, 1[845], aged 2 ds

• Mason, William H., PVT, OHIO INF, 1836-1864
• Meeks, Cersia, dau of John & Sarah, died Feb 29, 1852, aged 6 ys 30 mo 15 ds

• Nichols, Emma J., da of A J & C H, died Oct 15, 1861, aged 7 ys 4m 9d; Sleep on Emma, and take thy rest, God called you home, He thought it best. (Whole stone)

• Stout
  • Amos B., died Feb 29, 1852, aged 24 ys 27 ds
  • John, son of W & A, died May 30, 1856, aged 20 ys (Whole stone)

• Turner, Joseph June 12, 1790-June 19, 1859 (Whole stone)