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Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in Stark County, Ohio. Official Website The county was created in 1808 and organized the next year. It is named for John Stark, an officer in the American Revolutionary War. In the 1760s Moravian missionaries from Pennsylvania attempted to establish missions aimed at converting the native people. The earliest of these were Christian...
Union Cemetery is located at the corners of East Church Street and South Memorial Street in the town of Ohio, Bureau County, Illinois. It's also known as Ohio Cemetery . Find a Grave
This cemetery is located on River Street, Madison, Lake County, Ohio. Find a Grave Billion Graves US Gen Web
Grand River Academy, formerly known as the Ashtabula County Institute of Science and Industry and then the Grand River Institute, is an independent, nonsectarian, boarding high school for boys located in Austinburg, Ohio. It serves students in grades eight through twelve, with a post-graduate option. Grand River Academy was founded in 1831 by prominent leaders from the Austinburg Congregationa...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lake County, Ohio. Official Website The county was established on March 6, 1840. Its name is derived from its location on the southern shore of Lake Erie. Adjacent Counties Ashtabula County Geauga County Cuyahoga County Cities, Villages, Townships & Communities Concord | Eastlake | Fairport Harbor | Grand River | Kirtlan...
This project is used to relate all units from Ohio who served in the Union Army.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Portage County, Ohio. Official Website The county was created in 1807 and organized in 1808 and is named for the portage between the Cuyahoga and Tuscarawas Rivers. Adjacent Counties Geauga County Trumbull County Summit County Cuyahoga County Summit County Mahoning County Cities, Towns and Communities: Atwater - Au...
Please add profiles for people who were born in Summit County, Ohio. Official Website The county was formed on March 3, 1840. It was named Summit County because the highest elevation on the Ohio and Erie Canal is located in the county. Adjacent Counties Cuyahoga County Geauga County Portage County Medina County Wayne County Stark County Cities Akron (County Seat)
This project is part of the State of Ohio Portal. ==About the Project=Please use this project to add, research, document, and discuss your ancestors from Ohio. You can add profiles for:* People born in Ohio* People who lived in Ohio* People who died in OhioWhen you find helpful resources for research, please share them here so that others can benefit.If you have projects related specifically to...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lorain County, Ohio. Official Website Lorain County was established in 1822. The original proposed name for the county was "Colerain". The final name "Lorain" seems to have no true intended connection to the Alsace-Lorraine area of France, as theorized by later historians. Adjacent Counties Cuyahoga County Medina County Huro...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Ottawa County, Ohio. Official Website On March 6, 1840, the State of Ohio authorized the creation of Ottawa County. Residents took the Indian word for "trader" as the county's name. On September 10, 1813, during the War of 1812, nine vessels of the United States Navy under Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, decisively defeated six ves...
The cemetery is located on the north side of Sackett Avenue just west of its intersection with 26th Street and Chestnut Boulevard. The cemetery is located in Springfield Township, Summit County, Ohio, and is # 11554 ( Hillside Memorial Park ) in "Ohio Cemeteries 1803-2003", compiled by the Ohio Genealogical Society. The cemetery is registered with the Ohio Division of Real Estate and Professi...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Akron, Ohio . Akron is the county seat of Summit County . Official Website History The city was founded in 1825 by Simon Perkins and Paul Williams, along the Little Cuyahoga River at the summit of the developing Ohio and Erie Canal. The name is derived from the Greek word signifying a summit or high point. It was briefly renamed ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Lucas County, Ohio. Official Website The county was named for Robert Lucas, 12th governor of Ohio, in 1835 during his second term.[4] Its establishment provoked the Toledo War conflict with the Michigan Territory, which claimed some of its area. The Toledo War The Toledo War (1835–36), also known as the Great Toledo War, the Mi...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Sandusky County, Ohio. Official Website The county was formed on February 12, 1820, from portions of Huron County. The name is derived from the Wyandot word meaning "water" (Wyandot: saandustee). The Sandusky River runs diagonally northeast through the county to its mouth on Sandusky Bay. The bay opens into Lake Erie. Adjacent Cou...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Ashtabula County, Ohio . Official Website After Europeans arrived in the Americas, the land that became Ashtabula County was originally part of the French colony of Canada ( New France ), which was ceded in 1763 to Great Britain and renamed Province of Quebec . In the late 18th century the land became part of the Connecticut Wester...
Wikipedia ==Miami University=Miami University (also referred to as Miami U, Miami of Ohio, or simply Miami) is a coeducational public research university located in Oxford, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1809, although classes were not held until 1824, it is the 10th oldest public university in the United States and the second oldest university in Ohio, founded five years after Ohio University...
Wikipedia ==Oberlin College=Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio, noteworthy for having been the first American institution of higher learning to regularly admit female and black students in addition to white males. The Oberlin Conservatory of Music, part of the college, is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the country." Oberlin is noted for its pol...
This cemetery was established in 1841 and is located on 283 West Troy Street, St. Paris, Champaign County, Ohio. Find a Grave Roots Web Billion Graves
Wikipedia =The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State or OSU, is a public research university in Columbus, Ohio.Founded in 1870, as a land-grant university and ninth university in Ohio with the Morrill Act of 1862, the university was originally know as the Ohio Agriculture and Mechanical College.The college began with a focus on training students in various agricultural and m...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Wood County, Ohio. Official Website Wood County was established on February 12, 1820. It was named for Captain Eleazer D. Wood, the engineer for General William Henry Harrison's army, who built Fort Meigs in the War of 1812. For a complete list of Villages, Townships & Communities, please see Wikipedia . Adjacent Counties ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Champaign County, Ohio. Official Website The county takes its name from the French word for "open level country". The county was established on March 01, 1805. It was carved from Greene and Franklin counties by Legislative action. It stretched north to Lake Erie from the Greene County Line with its seat being in Springfield. Adjac...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Miami County, Ohio. Official Website On January 16, 1807, the Ohio government authorized the creation of Miami County. Residents named the county in honor of the Miami Indians. Adjacent Counties Champaign County Clark County Montgomery County Shelby County Darke County Cities, Villages, Townships & Communities Alcony...
History provided by Heber History This cemetery belonged to the Presbyterian Church of Fletcher. The Church was originally called the Newton Presbyterian Church and was opened in the fall of 1837 by James Coe and Samuel Cleland. In 1880 the church had met every two weeks. The Sunday School had an average attendance of forty. The first congregation consisted of about 20 members. The church was b...
Fletcher Cemetery was established in 1861 when townsfolks met in the Presbyterian Church and voted to appoint a committee to locate land for a new public cemetery. Up until then, burials were performed at the old Methodist Church (on Church & Main St), and at the Presbyterian Church. The committee purchased 5 acres in the southwest corner of the James Sims farm and adjoining Fletcher, at one h...