First Burial 1813
Est 1819

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History:
The plot in the rear of the vault was donated in the year 1819, by James Fish, to the North Brooklyn Township, for the burial of indigent people of School District #2.  Mr. Fish and his family are buried in a plot in the center of this property.  The property from Scranton Road in the vault was donated to the North Brooklyn Township, for Cemetery purposes by, Mr. Francis Branch.  In 1849 an Association was formed, The North Brooklyn Cemetery Association, by the settlers of this neighborhood namely:  Hiram Aikens, B. R. Beavis, Benjamin Beavis, David S. Brainard, Francis Branch, George N. Calkins, Diodate Clark, Thomas Dickson, Joseph Flint, Thomas Holmes, John James, Horace Kellogg, Martin Kellogg, John W. Loper, Robert C. Selden, Edward H. Vanhosen, Edward Wade, and John I. Williams.

Meetings of the Association were held in 1849, 1850, 1856, 1864, and 1878.  After 1878 the meetings were held yearly until 1936, when the Secretary was instructed to find ways and means of having the City of Cleveland assume the responsibility of the Cemetery.

The first knowledge, to the Association, that the State of Ohio held the deed to the Cemetery came when, on May 25, 1931, the State Highway Department laid a cement sidewalk along the Scranton Road line of the property.

Numerous committees and much newspaper publicity was needed to accomplish the aims of the Association.  After 10 years of such efforts, the City of Cleveland purchased the Cemetery property at a sale of tax delinquent property on July 31, 1945.  On August 2, 1945 records and property of the Association was turned over to Mr. Axel Freed, Superintendent of Cemeteries for the City of Cleveland by Mrs. William C. Ebersold.
 
Location: Scranton & Wade Avenue
Cleveland, OH
Acreage: 2.38 Acres
Status: 1,500 interments (inactive)
Cemetery Hours: Gates are open Monday through Sunday dusk to dawn.
Records are located at:
 

 

 Highland Park Cemetery
21400 Chagrin Boulevard
Cleveland, OH  44122-5308
216.348.7210
Genealogy 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.

Interested in purchasing a book on Scranton Road Cemetery?

Scranton Road Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio,
Introduction, Inscriptions, Interments
By: Cynthia Turk

Scranton Road Cemetery, the oldest west side public cemetery, is also known as North Brooklyn
Cemetery. Since about 1812 it has served what is now known as the Tremont and Clark-Fulton
Neighborhoods in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio.

Its interees include some of the west side's earliest settlers as well as a large number of
German immigrants. This book includes a history of the cemetery; complete lot and tier maps
indicating all known burial locations; 929 gravestone inscription readings in row order; a
German inscription translation guide; an index to the lot cards containing 2,740 names; and a
composite interment record (originally intended to replace burned registers) of 4,983 persons.
The composite record comes from a large number of sources, painstakingly extracted from death 
records; church, cemetery, and city records; deeds and obituaries. The resulting table includes when known) name, dates of death and interment, address, birth date/age, cause of death, nativity, block-lot/tier-grave numbers, undertaker, and a variety of remarks including physician, relationships from stones, etc. It also includes the sources for each record. This book is an important source of burial information for west side Germans, especially since most of the cemetery's records are no longer available. If you are lucky enough to visit this quaint neighborhood cemetery, this book will ease navigation among your ancestors there. 

Price includes shipping and handling.
2004, 8.5" X 11", Hardbound
466 pages
$49.00
Order From:
Cynthia Turk email: cynthia.turk@juno.com
39165 Johnnycake Ridge Rd
Willoughby, OH 44094-7951
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.)

Headstone photograph requests

NOTE:

Can't Find Someone?  Check out these helpful hints in research and where to obtain documents.  Genealogy Research Resources  http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohclecem/research.html

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 Scranton Road 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 Scranton Road Cemetery: (none at this time)
 
 
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
Erie Street Cemetery

Harvard Grove Cemetery

Highland Park Cemetery

Monroe Street Cemetery

West Park Cemetery

Woodland Cemetery

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Established:  25 December 2001
Last updated:  23 January 2006