Landes Cemetery
(aka Plum Cemetery - aka Travis Cemetery)
Hamilton Township,
Franklin County, Ohio

Gravestone Photographs

Located in the middle of a field east of Lockbourne Road and a little over half a mile south of London-Groveport Road, this cemetery is cared for by the Hamilton Township Trustees.  When the crop is corn the cemetery can not be seen from the road during the late summer and fall.  The earliest gravestone was that of John Landes, who died 12 May 1811 age eleven years; the most recent stone is that of ten year old John D. Plum who died 16 Feb 1859.  Of the twenty-eight stones found in 1981 fifteen, possibly sixteen, marked the graves of children under twelve years old.  Though the cemetery has a few broken stones, it seems that weather has been responsible for the destruction of most illegible inscriptions.  This page contains a complete photographic inventory of the cemetery.

Some photographs on this page were taken by Joyce Robinson, .

Aerial Photo of Cemetery,
Spring 2004

Gravestones:

(Click on the underlined name to download the tombstone photograph)

Some information enclosed in brackets, and additional interments were found in Franklin County, Ohio Cemeteries Hamilton Township, compiled by The Franklin County Genealogical Society, 11 volumes (Columbus 1980-1997), vol. 9 (1987), page 1 and vol 11 (1997), p. 153. At least one stone pictured below is not included in either volume.

• Grone, Nancy, daughter of Alex. & [Nancy], died Oct 14, 1841, aged 1 yr 2 mos ?d (High Resolution Detail 128KB)

• Hoff, Catherine, wife of Benjamine, died March 14, 1846, aged 56 yrs 2 mos & 16 dys
• Huffman, Lydia, wife of M. & dau of P. & E. Stimmel, July 1, 1828-Aug 8, 1855

• Plum
  • Benjamin, son of [H. & C, died Aug 14, 1833, aged 3 mo]
  • Felix, son of H. & C., died Aug 20, 1832, aged 2 mo 6 ds
  • Hon Yost, son of Mary M. & Jacob, died Feb 27, 18_7 (High Resolution Detail 110KB)
  • Infant son of John & Jane, died Sept 16, 1840 aged 8 days (High Resolution Detail 118KB)
  • Jacob, died [Jan 29,] 1837, age 22 yrs [__ mo] & 11 ds (High Resolution Detail)
  • Jacob, died Dec 8, 1851
  • John D., son of H. & C., died Feb 16, 1859, aged 10 ys 3 mo 4 ds
  • Maria, daughter of Mary M. & Jacob, died ??? ??, 1818, [aged 3 yrs] (High Resolution Detail)
  • Maryann, daughter of Mary M. & Jacob, died May 8, 1813, aged 3 yrs 1 mo 25 ds (High Resolution Detail 128KB)
  • Mary Magdalan, wife of Jacob, July 3, 1788-March 24, 1839, Æt al 50.8.21 [aged 50y 8m 21d] (High Resolution Detail)

• Landes
  • Jacob, died May 12, 1811 in his 12 year (High Resolution Detail)
  • Samuel, died Dec 19, 1822 in his 56th year

• Myers, Sarah, wife of Eleazer, died Nov 3, 1848

• Rohr, Infant son of Samuel & Rachel, died Dec 25, 1842

• Sammet, [Illegible], dau of [Illegible] & Rachel, died July 29, 1834, aged 11 yrs __ mo 6 ds
• Shofe
  • Daughter of John & Elizabeth, died Dec 10, 1825, aged 4 mos _days
  • Elizabeth, wife of John, died May 3, 1825 in her 60th year
  • Joseph, April 9, 1810-April 29, 1835 (High Resolution Detail 151KB)
• Sloan
  • John, son of David & Mary, died July 29, 1824, aged 8 months (High Resolution Detail 92KB)
  • Mary, daughter of David & Mary, died Oct 16, 1828, aged 1 yr 6 mo (High Resolution Detail 90KB)
• Stimmel
  • [F]ranklin, son of [J]acob & S H, died [Au]gust ??, 1850 (High Resolution Detail 127KB)
  • Peter, died Oct 6, 1844, [aged 54 yrs]
  • Peter L., died Feb 7, 1849, aged 2 yrs 9 ds (High Resolution Detail)
  • Infant (?), dau of S H, [died Aug 5, 1844, aged 3 mo 10 days]

• Winsor, Eliza Jane, wife of John, died Dec 4, 1844, aged 24 ys 9 mos & 8 days

• Unknown
  • Hannah, [stone buried]
  • Broken, 5 mo
  • Weathered
  • Weathered
  • Samu [broken & illegible]
  • Broken, 1852, age 1 year 5 days
  • Broken and weathered (behind Maria Plum's stone)
  • Broken and buried
  • Broken and buried, [Dec] 19, 18[22] [in his] 56 [yr]; probably Samuel Landes (see above)
  • Broken and buried