Ohio’s cemeteries
are much more than
final resting places.
We live in a time when the world seems ever more hurried. It is easy to forget the sacrifices and triumphs of those who made our lives possible. Our cemeteries remind us we are part of something much larger than ourselves.
Ohio has more than 14,000 cemeteries and burial grounds, dating back to its earliest settlements. They range from small family burial plots to church graveyards to expansive community cemeteries filled with sculptural and botanical treasures.
Within these cemeteries rest military heroes, politicians, scientists, inventors and adventurers, artists, writers, captains of industry, and leaders in education and medicine.
The list of well-known people in Ohio’s cemeteries includes U.S. Presidents Garfield, Harrison, Hayes and McKinley, authors James Thurber and Paul Laurence Dunbar, aviators Orville and Wilbur Wright, Annie Oakley, John Rockefeller, Cy Young, Elliot Ness, and many others.
Also within these same cemeteries rest those whose lives were less publicly acclaimed but no less important: mothers, fathers, daughters and sons, farmers, soldiers, teachers and nurses, each life rich in its own way, and many whose contributions to their family, community and country were immeasurable.
Regardless of their walk in life, those resting in Ohio’s cemeteries have one thing in common. They are remembered. Not only by their ancestry and communities, but by the diligent work of the Ohio Cemetery Foundation.