Cemeteries

Highland Memorial Gardens

Highland Memorial Garden is a cemetery located in South Point, Ohio. Even though researchers have tried, this cemetery has never been read or photographed for genealogical purposes. The layout may...

Low Gap Cemetery

Low Gap Cemetery is located on Route 243 at Bradrick.  This cemetery was read in 1999 by Julian Barnett, Perry Campbell, and Tom Clutters. You can find that link here. Since this cemetery was read,...

About Our Cemeteries

Union Cemetery in Chesapeake, Ohio, the photo was taken in 2021, courtesy of Matt Bice. Want to know the origins of Memorial Day? This excellent article written by R. C. Hall and published in The...

Mr. Roberts and Mrs. Rand

One of the first lawyers in Ironton was a Mr. Roberts. He lived here in the first year of the town’s history. He was an intelligent and agreeable man, whom everybody liked. He was sickly, had the consumption, we believe, and died in 1851. He was buried in a lot at Old Maidville, which was the only cemetery Ironton had. Afterward he was removed to the Kelly cemetery.

Burlington Cemetery

Ancient Burlington Cemetery Has Many Interesting Old Messages August 1954 Ironton Register Shortly before the beginning of the eighteenth century and seventeen years prior to the time the county...

Soldiers

The list has been compiled by Mr. Hamilton after several months of research in the records of the G. A. R. Post, at the several cemeteries and among friends and relatives of departed veterans. Its value as a local military record will be appreciated by the residents of this community.

Getaway Ohio Possesses an Odd History

About five miles up Symmes Creek from its mouth is situated the village commonly known as Getaway. Unincorporated, and therefore legally but a community of Union Township, it had an interesting history and one of sufficient importance to deserve recording and preserving. It is a village in which several descendants of pioneers still dwell, one of whom, Mrs. W. H. Waldeck has been kind enough to go to a great deal of trouble in collecting many facts for us regarding this historic old place.

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