LAMBERT CEMETERY
Body of Elisha Lambert Exhumed For the New Semet – Solvay Plant in Ironton, Ohio
Semi Weekly Irontonian, March 30, 1917
Workmen, who are exhuming the bodies buried in the Lambert Cemetery, in the south end of the city on the site of the new Solvay plant, Tuesday afternoon took up the body of Elias Lambert, buried in 1855. The body was contained in a metallic casket, and in taking it out of the grave, the covering over the face was scraped off and the face exposed to view.
The body, which had been buried for 62 years, was in a perfect state of preservation, and the scarf and clothes were just as they had been placed when the body was buried. The beard of Mr. Lambert, who in life was clean-shaven, had grown out and covered his face, however. The remains were viewed by a number of persons before they were interred in Woodland Cemetery in a plot that lies next to the cemetery.
The workmen up to noon today had disinterred 57 bodies and expected to finish the work this afternoon. There are supposed to be about 60 bodies in the cemetery. Many of the graves are not marked, and the workmen are forced to apply a test to discover the grave. An excavation of about one foot is made over the place where it is thought that a grave may be located, and if the ground gives way under the foot of the diggers, a grave is located, but if the ground is solid, there is no grave neath the workmen. The test is said to be infallible. The expense of the work is born by the Solvay Company.
Portsmouth Daily Times, 30 Jan. 1917, page 16
Ironton Gets Solvay Plant
Ironton, Ohio, Jan. 30 – Assistant General Manager Park of the Semet-Solvay Co., of Syracuse, NY, was here Monday in conference with officials of the Norfolk and Western regarding sidings for the new Solvay plant to be erected in the South Side and ground for which will be broken within the coming week.
The cost of the plant will be about $2,000,000, and it will employ about 250 men. While it is being constructed, about 150 men will be employed, at least 100 of whom will be highly paid skilled labor, making a big addition to local wage distributions even before the plant is ready for operations.
It is planned to get the groundwork underway at once, and when the work on the Portsmouth Plant is completed, bring the well organized staff employed there to this city. About 100 brick layers are employed, and there is an immense lot of concrete work on the plant.
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