Arrangement of the North Graveyard
No plat of
either the North or the East Graveyard has been preserved by the city
government of Columbus; however, much information concerning the North
Graveyard has been preserved in court records and other sources. A special
effort has therefore been made to construct a plat which represents as
closely as possible the original arrangement of this tract. The logic used
in reconstructing the accompanying plat and the sources of the data are
presented in this section.
OVERALL DIMENSIONS
The Doherty
and Kerr tracts together comprised lots 126 through 129 of the
proprietors' additional plat of the city, measuring 486 feet on the north,
660 feet on the west, and 624 feet on the south. (Answer of Goodale's
executors, Gaver v. City of Columbus, June 30, 1873, in Common Pleas
Complete Record 57/17.)
A copy of
the survey made in 1871, for purposes of condemnation by the Columbus,
Springfield and Cincinnati Railroad of the south 100 foot strip of the
property, shows it to have a length of 587 feet on the south. This is 37
feet shorter than the length indicated by the above description, and is
not likely to be correct. The error apparently was made in copying the
plat into the record book. The surveyor's line from which the locations of
the tombstones in the strip were measured was not the southern property
line but was the northern line of the strip being condemned, which because
of the angle
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