the county graveyard was used only or primarily for the burial of paupers or others who could not afford to be buried at Green Lawn. This was no doubt due to the presence of the pest house there; most people tried to avoid that place of disease and this made the graveyard site undesirable.

The opening of the new County Infirmary near Alum Creek, with its own cemetery, made the High street property unnecessary. At a meeting of the county commissioners held on May 18, 1893 the entire tract was declared to be surplus and on the same day was sold to Frank J. Reinhard and Jared P. Bliss for $12,000.³³ The tract was platted as Johnson's South Grove Addition³⁴ in 1898 but the lots did not sell well and most of the plat was vacated in 1912.³⁵ The Johnsons then sold off the land in larger tracts but were unable to sell the graveyard until 1938.³⁶ A lane entering the group of new tracts from the south ran along the west side of the graveyard. This eventually became Fifth street. By this time the tombstones, what few there were, had disappeared and the fact that it had been a graveyard was being forgotten.

The graveyard was divided into four lots on which houses were built beginning in 1950. Graves were found when the basements were dug for these houses. With the construction of State Route 104 east of High street in the 1960's, a new entrance to Fifth street was needed. To serve this purpose, the southern-most of the lots which had been formed from the graveyard was partially paved and is now used as a street. In 1984, a tombstone dated 1854, apparently moved from the East Graveyard in 1882, was found a short distance below the surface of the ground.³⁷