The Pickaway County W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps have been added to the right sidebar of the blog.

 The Pickaway County W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps have been added to the right sidebar of the blog. 

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The W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps for Pickaway County contain the following townships.:
Circleville, Darby, Deer Creek
Harrison, Jackson, Madison
Monroe, Muhlenberg, Perry
Pickaway, Salt Creek, Scioto
Walnut, Washington, Wayne
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Pickaway County is primarily a rural county. 

It was perhaps even more so when these maps were drawn up during the decade of the 1930s; during the years of the Great Depression when the W.P.A. program was in place.

On the Cemetery Index Page, there are 57 cemeteries listed with the word "Farm" in their names.
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Circleville is the county seat of Pickaway County.
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These W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps have been recently placed on the Pickaway County Recorder's website in .pdf format.

Sharing from the Pickaway County Recorder.:

"If you go to our recording website, you can view the document by searching the following information:

O R vol 814 pg 5083

Instrument #:  202400007429

You can also search by cemetery names."

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Pickaway County contains several American Revolutionary War veteran burials.:

Above is a photograph posted here with permission from the photographer of the large gray granite memorial monument for Revolutionary War veterans who were buried in Pickaway County but whose exact location is unknown.  

This monument is at Forest Cemetery in Circleville.  

Capt. Eleazer Williamson is included on the list.  

On Find a Grave he is shown as buried at the Presbyterian Cemetery which is Page number 62 on the Cemetery Index.

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There are some map pages where veterans names are listed and their gravesite location shown; however, their war number -- example: the number "1" designation for the American Revolutionary War, is missing.

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Note: that the Yankeetown Cemetery is listed on Find a Grave as being in Fayette County. 

However, in the Pickaway County collection of W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps, Yankeetown Cemetery is shown as being in Monroe Township, Pickaway County which is next to the border with Fayette County.:  

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Note also that the Methodist Cemetery on the Cemetery Index as number Page 82 is named as the Beckett Cemetery on Find a Grave.

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Pickaway County's W.P.A. Cemetery Plat Maps are a fascinating collection containing several pages of smaller family cemeteries that in some instances have now disappeared.  Because of the W.P.A. workers' documentation of their location and veteran burial information, the existence of these early burial grounds is proven and their records have been preserved for our further research.

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The Padgett Methodology for Effective Cemetery Research in Genealogy Virtual Presentation - Wed. August 13, 2025 - 7:00p.m. - Warren County Genealogical Society

 The Padgett Methodology for Effective Cemetery Research in Genealogy 

Warren County Genealogy Society - A Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society - Virtual Meeting - August 13, 2025 - 7:00PM

Website of the Warren County Chapter of O.G.S.

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"Friends of the Cemetery" - Medina's Spring Grove Cemetery Annual Meeting presents Mr. Paul LaRue as its featured speaker - Sunday, September 7, 2025 - 2:00p.m. at Spring Grove Cemetery , Medina - Grove Street Entrance - The public is invited to attend.

 

Friends of Medina's Spring Grove Cemetery

Members' Meeting

Paul LaRue

Spring Grove Cemetery in Medina on Find a Grave

Friends of the Cemetery - Facebook Page

"The Friends of the Cemetery Annual Members’ Meeting will be held at the Spring Grove Chapel on Sunday, September 7 at 2:00 p.m."

"We are pleased and honored to welcome Mr. Paul LaRue, a retired social studies teacher from Washington Court House City Schools, as our guest speaker. He has received numerous state and national teaching awards, including the Ohio DAR American History Teacher of the Year, the American Legion Ohio Educator of the Year, the Veterans of Foreign Wars Ohio Teacher of the Year, the History Channel’s First Place in Innovation in History Education, Time Warner’s National Teacher Award, and the African American Civil War Memorial Teacher of the Year. Paul served on the Ohio Civil War Sesquicentennial Committee and the Ohio World War 1 Centennial Committee. Currently, Paul serves as co-chair of the America 250-Ohio K-12 Education Committee and is President of the State of Ohio Board of Education.

Paul will talk to us about the significance of preserving historic cemeteries, the importance of recounting our connection to the Underground Railroad, and ways to educate our children about both. He will also discuss how we can engage our community in the America 250 commemoration and the necessity of teaching our children about it.

Be sure to note this significant and timely meeting on your calendar, as it is one you will not want to miss!"

Google Map showing location of the Spring Grove Cemetery in Medina.

Reminder:

This is a public meeting and those who are interested are invited to attend.