Cemetery inscriptions, Stark County, Ohio - Ristow.us

PREFACEinStark County, Ohio was formed in 1809 from Columbiana County. It subsequentlylost Brown, Harrison and Rose Townships to Carroll County in 1833 and Greenand Franklin Townships to Summit County in 1840. It contains seventeentownships today. Its cemeteries date from 1805 when the first settlers came.There are 200 cemeteries today. This volume covers the central townships ofPlain and Canton. There are twenty-three cemeteries in this volume.Much use has been made of the previous cemetery book entitled CemeteryRecords, Stark County, Ohio . It was researched by E. T. Heald, H. T. 0. Blueand H. D. Paxton. It was compiled, edited, and indexed with a foreword byDorothy Sommer, Head, Reference Division, Canton Public Library Association.The project was sponsored by the Stark County Historical Society. Itconsisted of four volumes, one of which was the index, and was typed in 1955.It covered 158 cemeteries from the earliest time until 1900. Most of theinscriptions were copied in the I940's. Much credit must be given to theresearchers because many of the tombstones which they copied are unreadable ornonexistent today. The map used by E. T. Heald to locate the cemeteries inthe 1940' s was made available by Eva Sparrowgrove of The Stark CountyHistorical Society.In this volume the cemetery numbers assigned by Heald have continued to beused. The description of the locations of the cemeteries in Stark County weresubmitted by Marilyn Oyster and Evelyn Jessup to The Ohio Genealogical Societyfor inclusion in their 1973 book entitled Ohio Cemeteries , which lists thelocation of every cemetery in the State of Ohio. The same descriptions areused in this volume.An attempt has been made to read the tombstones in rows so that a person canlocate a particular stone from the description. This has not always beenpossible because of the haphazard manner in which some cemeteries are laidout. All stones have been included to the present day. Stones illegible ormissing, but listed in Cemetery Records, Stark County, Ohio , referencedabove, have been included and are so indicated.The project continues. All the cemetery inscriptions in Perry Township havealready been read. Typing and indexing remain to be done. West Lawn Cemeteryin Canton Township will be the last portion to be completed.