First Burial (Ontario Street Cemetery) 1803
Est 1826
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Come join us for the 1st Annual Historic Cemetery Scavenger Hunt/Poker Run/Car Cruise on August 2, 2008 at 10:00am.
Special Event:
Come Peake Your Interest at Erie Street Cemetery Saturday August 18, 2007 4:00pm-8:00pm
Picture courtesy of Ann
Parker Babyak
History:
The old graveyard (Ontario Cemetery) use to be located near (currently
known as) Ontario and Prospect Streets. This graveyard no longer had
adequate
dimensions and too near the center of population. It was set out
to find a new cemetery away from the population. Erie Street
Cemetery
was acquired in September 1825, by Leonard Case, Trustee and on the
29th
day of March, 1826, Leonard and his wife, Elizabeth Case, conveyed the
land by quit-claim to the village of Cleveland.
| Location:
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2254 East 9th Street Cleveland, OH (Located across from Jacobs Field, between East 9th and East 14th Streets) |
| Acreage: | 8.9 Acres |
| Status: | 17,935 interments (inactive) |
| Cemetery Hours: | Gates are open Monday through Sunday dusk to dawn. |
| Records are located at:
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Highland Park Cemetery 21400 Chagrin Boulevard Cleveland, OH 44122-5308 216.348.7210 |
| Research hours in person: | Closed, mail requests only |
| Questions or concerns? Write to: | Manager of Cemeteries |
Genealogy research through mail: Currently free. Please send a LONG self addressed stamped envelope (LSASE) with your request. Please don't forget to include your snail mail address in the letter, sometimes the envelopes get separated from the request. Requests take approximate 4 to 6 weeks for response.
Would you like a photograph of a headstone? I will do City of Cleveland (owned) Cemeteries. If someone else would like to register in doing requests at other cemeteries, please let me know. I get a lot of requests for other cemeteries and I am not capable of doing them all. (I am independent from the City of Cleveland. They are in no way participating in photographs of headstones and are not liable for such services I render.)
NOTE:
- Please have grave location before visiting the cemetery. Maps for all City of Cleveland (owned) cemeteries are at Highland Park Cemetery and some can be downloaded including other surrounding cemeteries.
- The City of Cleveland (owned) Cemeteries does not have birth information, next of kin, death certificates or cemetery inscription information.
- Before writing to the cemetery, make sure you have the following information: Full name of deceased, date of death, cemetery where buried. Do not send general requests such as, "please send me a list of all Smiths buried in your cemeteries." The records are not computerized at the cemetery at this time.
Do you need a headstone for a grave?
See the list of monument
and headstone dealers in the local area.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohclecem/monument.html
Wanted: I would be most interested in sharing bios and/or pictures of the inhabitants of this cemetery. If you would like to share some history about a loved one buried in Erie Street Cemetery, please email me. I will post the information on this web site to share.
I am also looking for pictures, old pictures if possible of what this cemetery looked like long ago and of graves at this cemetery.
Who's Who in Erie Street Cemetery:
Allen, John W
Mayor of Cleveland (1841)
Barr,
John Cleveland's first magistrate and local historian
Harris, Josiah A
Mayor of Cleveland (1847)
Hoadley, George
Mayor of Cleveland (1846)
Lemen, Thomas & William
Mills, Joshua
Mayor of Cleveland (1838-1839)
Weatherly, Joseph Lawson Cleveland
Chamber
of Commerce
| Links to cemetery pages: | Links to "other" pages: | |
| Cleveland Cemeteries Main Page | Biography (compilation) | |
| Alger Cemetery | Cemetery Maps | |
| Brookmere Cemetery | Genealogy Research Resources | |
| Denison Cemetery | Cleveland Area Lost & Found | |
| Harvard Grove Cemetery | ||
| Highland Park Cemetery | ||
| Monroe Street Cemetery | ||
| Scranton Road Cemetery | ||
| West Park Cemetery | ||
| Woodland Cemetery |
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A Day Established: 25 December 2001 Last updated: 29 June 2008 |
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