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Hamilton Cemetery
Claibourn Township, Union County, Ohio

Gravestone Photographs

In 1985 three charter members of the Union County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society set out to take a reading of the cemetery. They were Dorothy Robinson, Julia Yoder, and Mary Seslar. Here is what they recorded about that day, as found in, Claibourne Township Cemetery Records, complied by members of the Union County Genealogical Society (Marysville, n.d.), page 114:

East side of LeMasters Road just north of Mulvane Road in the woods south of Big Swale abandoned brick school. The first school here was called the Lenox School. The lot for the cemetery [was] donated by William Hamilton. These stones were located by probing the woods floor.

We photographed all the stones that were in evidence on January 23, 2012. All of them were also on the 1985 list. Additionaly, the ladies mentioned two footstones with the letters, "P.J.M." and "A.B." We found a few footstones, but the photographs do not appear here. They are lettered, "L.S." - "P.J.M." - "J.N.P." We also found a broken and illegible stone not mentioned by the ladies when they took the reading of their findings. The woods have been cut down and you can see the tree stumps in the photograph above. A few trees were left standing along the sides of the cemetery.

GPS Coordinates: DEC - Latitude = 40.1567281 Longitude = -83.2379714 DMS - Latitude = 400924N Longitude = 0831417W MAP Gravestones: (Click on the underlined name to view the gravestone photograph) Beck, Amos, died Oct 21, 1870, aged 50 years; (Whole Stone) Graham, John, died Aapr 2, 1850 [In] his 80 yr Hollister, Isaac, died Feb 17, 1881, aged 46y 11m 15d; 22 OVB Mulvain, Margaret A., dau of Wm B & S A, died Dec 17, 1860, aged 11 (or 17) yrs 8 mos & 8 ds; (Whole Stone) Perkins, In memory of Joseph, son of S & M, died March 17, 1844, aged 6 years & 5 days Shaw, In memory of Livonia, wife of Wm, who died Aug 9, 1843, aged 35 years & 3 mo; (Whole Stone) Franklin County, Ohio Cemetery Photos, &c. Delaware County, Ohio Cemetery Photos Fairfield County Cemetery Photos Licking County Cemetery Photos Madison County Cemetery Photos Madison County Cemetery Photos Union County, Ohio Cemetery Photos A This page is owned & maintained by Gustafson - Wichmann Ancestry NOTICE: These electronic photographs may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any organizations or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the .