About Our Cemeteries

Union Hill Cemetery, Chesapeake, Ohio from The Lawrence Register archives

Union Cemetery in Chesapeake, Ohio, the photo was taken in 2021, courtesy of Matt Bice.

History of Memorial Day

Photo from Lawrence County, Ohio Memorial Day Parade 1970 Honoring the Military

Want to know the origins of Memorial Day? This excellent article written by R. C. Hall and published in The Huntington Herald Advertiser lays out how it all began, and the old tradition of “Decoration Day” in Rome Cemetery in Lawrence County, Ohio.

Headstone Photos

Henry Miller Tombstone

This blog is old headstone photos of Lawrence County, Ohio. Over the years I have collected thousands of tombstone pictures that I have taken, plus many others that have been donated by our wonderful volunteers.

Cemetery Locations

Brammer Cemetery, Lawrence County, Ohio, photo by Matt Bice

Beginning in the 1980s, the Lawrence County, Ohio Genealogy Society started transcribing cemeteries, to aid genealogists in locating old burial sites. Then, in the late 1990s Tom Clutters, Perry Campbell, and Julian Barnett began talking to older residents and finding additional cemeteries and headstones. Be sure and visit this page.

Historical Stories

Kelly Cemetery, Lawrence County, Ohio

On our Cemetery Inscriptions & More page, you will find listings of cemeteries, their locations, stories, and inscriptions. Along with all that material, you will have free access to the late Tom Clutters, Perry Campbell, and the late Julian Barnett’s cemetery books they published in 1999, which are listed by townships in this collection.

Burial Index

Aid Cemetery

Searching for burial records can be dishearting. Try searching this list of individuals’ names and the cemetery where they were buried. This resource is helpful for the genealogist, whether you are investigating a family or just one person. 

Woodland Cemetery Burials

Woodland Cemetery

Looking for relatives buried in Woodland Cemetery? This is the index to the Burial Records of Woodland Cemetery in Ironton, Ohio. The original records are housed in the History Department (Hamner Room) at Briggs Library in Ironton, Ohio.

Woodland Cemetery Arch for Jewish Funerals, Ironton, Ohio

The Jewish Arch in Woodland Cemetery Ironton, Ohio.

Beulah Cemetery, Lawrence County, Ohio

Blair Cemetery

Davidson-Gilruth Cemetery, Lawrence County, Ohio

Davidson-Gilruth Cemetery

Blair Cemetery, Lawrence County, Ohio

Blair Cemetery

stones under a tree in a cemetery

Stones under a tree

Lawrence County, Ohio

We have some of the most beautiful cemeteries, and when you visit them, take time to read the tombstones. Unfortunately, like every county, many of our ancestor’s resting places have been destroyed. If members of the family have moved from here, there is no one to take care of the cemetery.

Weather, farm animals, machinery, and just plain vandalism are the main result of many of the cemetery’s demise.  If you need assistance in locating either a grave or a cemetery, the township trustees are the best place to begin. Let’s teach the next generation how to be caretakers of the remaining cemeteries we have located.

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