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Local hero’s resting place
January 17, 2013 The burial site of a community’s namesake or founder is often marked by a well-cared-for headstone, a commemorative plaque or even a statue. more »» 
Grave matters: Victims of 1918 flu pandemic
January 12, 2013 WATERTOWN TWP.—The current flu season is off to an early start, and widespread cases of hospitalizations and even flu-related deaths have been a source of growing concern. more »» 
Grave Matters: Symbolic markers
January 5, 2013 Forget the idea of the dead speaking from their graves in a scary movie scene. Grave markers are a gentler and more beautiful way to make the deceased’s voice heard from the past to the present. more »» 
Grave Matters: Murdered former slave returned to Marietta
December 29, 2012 It was the wrong time to be wearing a blue Union Army overcoat in southeastern Missouri in the year 1866. more »» 
Mystery buried at cemetery
December 20, 2012 Legends abound about the history of a cluster of small headstones overlooking Veto Lake in Dunham Township. more »» 
Cemetery expanding: Adjacent farm owner donating land
December 14, 2012 The Woodruff Cemetery in Watertown Township has been in use for more than 200 years, and it’s about to get a lot bigger. more »» 
Historical stories in Harmar; Barber family history in city’s oldest cemetery
December 7, 2012 Among the 1,000 or so graves in historic Harmar Cemetery—Marietta’s oldest graveyard—are the final resting places of three men bearing the name of Levi Barber who lived in the Harmar district from... more »» 
Friends that were foes, too
November 30, 2012 Coming off a heated election season, one of the many accomplishments in the storied lives of Rufus Dawes and Adoniram J. Warner may seem particularly hard to believ. more »» 
Grave Matters: Mary Bird Lake
November 24, 2012 LOWELL—Buried in Rainbow Cemetery in Lowell in 1796, Mary Bird Lake is remembered today for her medical services in New York state during the Revolutionary War—and at Campus Martius in the Northwest... more »» 
Historical ‘hidden gem’
November 16, 2012 NEW MATAMORAS—Pioneer Cemetery is a well hidden historical gem in New Matamoras, situated two blocks from the intersection of Ohio 7 and Main Street. The cemetery was established in 1832. more »» 
Grave Matters: Gard Cemetery
November 10, 2012 PALMER TWP —The first groundbreaking in a cemetery is never a happy story, but for Gard Cemetery, the first cemetery in Palmer Township, it is a particularly tragic tale. more »» 
Visits to kin a tradition
November 3, 2012 AURELIUS Twp.—He’s 82 years old now, but Charlie Schob still sojourns into the hills of Adams and Aurelius townships to visit the graves of German ancestors buried in two cemeteries ther. more »» 
Marietta ghost mystery: Haunting of The Anchorage a well-known tale
October 26, 2012 Nestled low on the Oak Grove Cemetery hillside is the final resting place of Eliza Putnam. more »» 
Old grave sites restored
October 19, 2012 VIENNA, W.Va.—Cemeteries are special places for Jeff Smith. “I think the condition of a cemetery tells something about a community, and we should be respectful of them,” he said. more »»
Old church cemetery
October 5, 2012 ELK TWP. — Becoming caretaker of the cemeteries for the Zion United Church of Christ wasn’t something Vernon Thomas planned; it just sort of happened. more »» 
Revolutionary War data bank
September 28, 2012 Seth White, 27, of Marietta has always been a history buff, especially when it comes to American history. more »» 
Burial vaults made here
September 14, 2012 WAVERLY, W.Va. — There are hundreds of cemeteries in Washington County, but most of the people laid to rest in them over the last 25 to 30 years have been interred in a vault made at one place. more »» 
Paw Paw Cemetery
September 7, 2012 LIBERTY TWP. — The Paw Paw United Methodist Church closed 12 years ago, but the cemetery remains active under the care of a longtime church member. more »» 
Cemetery’s claim to fame
August 31, 2012 On a rolling hillside behind the Decatur United Methodist Church in Decatur Township lies a little cemetery that is the final resting place of the oldest man in Washington County, and possibly the... more »» 
Grave Matters: Mound Cemetery
August 23, 2012 Buried side by side in Mound Cemetery, William Augustus Whittlesey and his son, William Beale Whittlesey, always had a close connection. more »» |
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