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This project is for those interred in the Mount Zion Cemetery, Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia.
The cemetery was dedicated July 3, 1864 and is located on 300 Fairmont Avenue. At least 138 Civil War veterans have been buried here.
From the Ohio County Library:
Mt. Zion Cemetery is nicely located about one little up Caldwell's run. It is the property of Zion's Lutheran congregation. The grounds consist of about six acres, which were bought from Mr. Caldwell in the summer of 1863, and converted into a cemetery.
The first corpse, a child, Annie Hofmeister, was buried on the 22d of November, the same year. Part of the grounds was laid off in lots 16 feet square to the number of 445, all of which, with the exception of about 100, have since been sold. There is still enough ground left to lay out about 200 more lots. There have been interred up to the present date 1,012 corpses. There are as yet no vaults on the grounds. Quite a large number of fine monuments may be seen, among which may he mentioned those belonging to Mrs. J. Heinlein, Mrs. Seabright, Mrs. Koehlein, Fred Bromer, Mrs. Hofmeister, Eckhard, Otte and others. The cemetery is governed by a board elected by the members of Zion's congregation, the officers at the time of this writing being President, Rev O. Meerwem; secretaries, Soldan and Conrad Shepp; trustees, Louis Feltner and A. Rolf. This cemetery is kept in good repair, not only by members of Zion's congregation, but by our citizens generally.
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