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HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 319
of boy inmates has been eighteen, and of girls, seventeen. There are at
present forty-three children in the home. One hundred and sixty boys
and 159 girls have been admitted to the home. Two boys have died and
five girls. One hundred and thirty-three boys and 143 girls have been
indentured.
On April 1, 1915, the trustees added a child's welfare agency for the
following purposes: 1. To find dependent and neglected children.
2. To help unfortunate parents to keep their children. 3. To find foster
homes for the children of the home. 4. To visit the foster homes of the
children three times a year. This department has been a decided success.
At the end of the year 1914 the Children's Home was examined by
Carl M. Browman, state examiner, who checked all the bills of the home
and found its affairs efficiently and economically managed and commended
the appointment of the visiting agents.
CEMETERIES
The first cemetery was located in the rear of the Star Theater on
Columbus Avenue, but was not used after 1810. A small lot is said to
have been used near the foot of Shelby Street as early as 1817, and
closed about the year 1820.
The Register of July 15, 1873, contains a letter from F. D. Parish,
correcting several errors in the 1873 directory published by the Register.
As to the Sandusky cemeteries, he says:
"I settled here in May, 1822, and burials were made in the battery
for several years after my advent. As late as Nov., 1829, my first Avife
died and rather than bury her remains in the Battery I interred them
in my OAvn lot, No. 4 Washington ROAV. When the second burial ground
was established the remains were removed to that cemetery, and Avhen
the present one Avas opened they were again removed to their present
resting place. The date of the deed from D. H. Tuttle to the corporation
of the second cemetery fixes the date. . . As late as May, 1822,
when I appeared in Sandusky there were then 23 erections, no more no
less. My memory enables me at this day to point out the precise locality
of each building." I
In the year 1849 a committee of the council consisting of F. T. Barney,
John M. BroAvn and Foster M. Follett Avas appointed to select a location
for a larger and appropriate cemetery tract. In 1850 another committee
was appointed for the selection and purchase of a tract of land for the
purpose of a cemetery and city poor farm, The negotiations resulted in
contracting for a tract in Perkins ToAA'nship and 136 acres in extent, with
Jane S. Williams, at the price of* $4,701.90, and on this tract beautiful
Oakland Cemetery Avas laid out. The first sale of lots Avas April 29, 1850.
THE COUNTY INFIRMARY
In the Township of Perkins, a.short distance from the south boundary
of Sandusky City, is located a farm of goodly proportions and in a
finely improved condition, and upon Avhich is built a large stone structure.