January of 1839, when the East Graveyard was being purchased.
- Franklin County Infirmary. Deaths at the
County Infirmary, formerly the Poor House, were abstracted from the
earliest extant Register of the infirmary, dated 1866 to 1882, which is
available on microfilm GR-1245 at the Ohio Historical Society. The
register lists each person's name, date of admission, age at admission,
place of birth, and other data, along with date of departure or death.
Deaths there up to the date of closing of the East and opening of the
South Graveyard are in this consolidated list as probable interments in
the East Graveyard (except for two men for whom tombstones were noticed at
Green Lawn and who the office indicated to be original interments there).
Many of the persons who died after that time were probably interred in the
South Graveyard, but these are not included here since they properly
belong to county, not city, institutional graveyard history. The ages
listed here are approximate, estimated on the basis of age at time of
admission.
- Green Lawn Cemetery. As mentioned above,
many sections of the cemetery were "read" for old inscriptions and the
books containing lot-by-lot records were examined for notes and clues of
removals from the city graveyards. Readings are indicated by "ts" for an
individual tombstone or "mt" for a family monument, followed by the words
"Green Lawn" and the section and often the lot number. Data found in the
association's books are indicated by the words "lot book." Any references
to possible removals were then checked against the association's card
file, which should have a card for each original interment but only
contains cards for a relatively few removals into that cemetery. Many
early tombstone readings and odd references in the books turned out to be
original interments and were eliminated by this check. A few removals were
also found in the cards, however, which had not been noted elsewhere. The
notation "(Not in card file?)" indicates that no card for the interment
was found at Green Lawn and the probability is high that the original
interment was at a city graveyard. In any case, if no reference to an
individual sought is found in this book, one should still check the Green
Lawn card file. (A microfilm copy is available at the Franklin County
Genealogical Society.) One additional notation on the source is "M. Cmr.
John Graham Lot." This indicates that the tombstone is on one of the lots
purchased by John Graham, acting under court order as master commissioner,
as a place for removals from single grave sections at the North Graveyard.
Following each name is a code indicating
the original graveyard of interment. These are:
F - Franklinton Graveyard
N - North Graveyard
E - East Graveyard
U - Union or Colored Graveyard
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