One of my Facebook feeds posted a link to this interesting entry about Congress Green Cemetery near Cincinnati today. I haven’t ever used the site before, but it’s really interesting and contains entries on several other cemeteries throughout the state. Definitely check it out! (The site, in case that link doesn’t work, is http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=2389&nm=Congress-Green-Cemetery)
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September 11, 2009
News brief — Limited employees reassigned to Green Lawn
Posted by Kristine under Franklin, Green Lawn Cemetery, NewsLeave a Comment
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Limited employees reassigned to Green Lawn
The growing number people facing unemployment is helping even the departed as Limited Brands, based in Columbus, reassigned a group of 25 warehouse employees to Green Lawn Cemetery for August to avoid further layoffs.
According to The Columbus Dispatch, the workers cleared brush and vegetation from an iron fence that surrounds the 380-acre cemetery. Part of the fence was also painted.
The effort was the first time any company had its employees work their regular full-time hours volunteering at the cemetery, though other companies have had a smaller number of employees work fewer hours.
The Limited workers received their normal salery for the hours worked.
Ohio’s unemployment rate stands at 11.2 percent as of July.
Green Lawn, which employs only eight graveyard workers and was founded in 1848, usually offers volunteer opportunities to those interested.
The 360-acre site has nearly 150,000 interments.
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Information taken from: http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2009/09/03/limited_graveyard.ART_ART_09-03-09_A10_N9EUVCV.html
September 8, 2009
Hello, faithful readers!
We here at Headstoner.com have been doing some plotting and planning and have come up with a new strategy to bring you even more cemetery goodness from west central Ohio and all over the Buckeye State.
- News: To help giving a well-rounded cemetery education, we’ve decided to start including news briefs about various things going on in cemeteries. The stories will be primarily from around Ohio, but sometimes if something stands out we’ll include it. You can see our first item below this post. So, if you have an article or some information about something happening in a cemetery, pass it our way and we’ll try to get it posted.
- Ghost busting: We started quite a reputation with our Andrew Hellman post (which is a topic we hope to do more research on sometime), that we’re going to try to and feature some more investigating. We’re not paranormal investigators and wouldn’t even know how to start, but we are good researchers. With an Internet connection and library card, debunking attempts can be pretty fruitful. If you have a haunting you think could be debunked this way, let us know. We’re also not opposed to driving into situations where our engine shuts off or our hair stands on end.
- Events: Especially with the Halloween season approaching, if we hear about haunting/cemetery/ghost-related events, we’ll try to get them posted. Again, if you hear of anything going on, please let us know! We’re only two people, so it can be hard to find everything.
- Continuing cemetery write-ups: As always, we’ll continue to do sometimes-funny, hopefully always-informative posts about the cemeteries we’ve visited. If you have a request for a post or a suggestion of a place to visit, let us know. We’re fairly friendly people too, if you want to show us your favorite haunt.
As always, we’re open to any and all suggestions at headstoner at hotmail.com. We can’t make any promises about acting on it, but I assure you we’ll get it and consider it.
Keep up the hunting,
The Headstoner Team
September 8, 2009
News brief — Confederate cemetery gets cleaning
Posted by Kristine under Camp Chase, Franklin, NewsLeave a Comment
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Confederate cemetery gets cleaning
COLUMBUS — Over 2,000 headstones will have the chance be cleaned, straightened and made level thanks to approximately $120,000 of tax payer money being used by the federal government to help Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery in Columbus.
There are estimated to be as many as 2,260 bodies, almost all Confederate soldiers, buried in the area, with a mass grave known to be located in the southeastern part of the cemetery. There are also burials under what is now Sullivant Avenue and a nearby ball field.
Camp Chase, named after President Abraham Lincoln’s treasury secretary Salmon P. Chase of Ohio, operated as a prisoner-of-war camp from 1861 to 1865. Over 150,000 Union soldiers were also trained there.
The 2,133 headstones at the 1.8-acre site were installed in 1936.
Administrators are hoping that after the cleanup, young people often found smoking or drinking in the cemetery will respect the work that has been done.
The project, which began in June, is expected to be completed by early November.
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Information taken from: http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/09/01/camp_chase.ART_ART_09-01-09_B1_NJEUB9M.html?sid=101
