Now that the summer is upon us we have a volunteer project
that might interest you. Do you like to wander through cemeteries taking
photographs? Would you like to honor and memorialize Civil War Veterans buried
in Hamilton County? Or maybe you would like looking up memorials on Find a
Grave?
With the period for recognition of the 150th
Anniversary of the Civil War drawing to a close, we’ve planned a project that
needs lots of volunteers, each undertaking a small amount of effort. We want to
place photos of the tombstones, burial site, or memorialize on Find a Grave.com
all the Civil War veterans buried in Hamilton County. These soldiers we seek to
honor fought to preserve the Union – so we did not become a nation divided.
We will need volunteers to “adopt” a cemetery and take
photos of the graves of soldiers. We will provide the list. Other volunteers
are needed to research Find a Grave.com and verify if a memorial has been
created already for the soldier. This volunteer will also move existing
memorials to our “virtual cemeteries” for our project. And finally, we will
need volunteers to create new memorials on Find a Grave.com for soldiers who
need them.
We have a Find A Grave profile that we will use http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=mr&MRid=48454462.
The “virtual cemeteries” are located there.
We will provide work sheets and instructions for the
cemetery you choose to adopt. Supplies to help the photographer will also be
provided. We suggest you work in groups, so volunteer with a friend or join us
as we tackle some of the larger cemeteries together.
This is the initial group of cemeteries we will be taking
photos in. The number beside the name indicates the number of Civil War
Veterans buried there. After checking on Find a Grave the actual count for each
cemetery will be lower if memorials have been created already.
Armstrong Chapel (Methodist Churchyard)-19
Asbury Methodist Episcopal Chapel-5
Asbury Methodist Episcopal Churchyard-17
Baptist-Harrison-15-assigned
Bethel Baptist-8
Bevis Cedar Grove-35
Bridgetown-27
Carpenter’s Run Baptist Church Cemetery-2
Clough Baptist Churchyard-1
Coleman Presbyterian Cemetery-5
Columbia Baptist Churchyard-9
Compton Family Burial Ground-2
Congress Green-2
Dunlap Station-1-assigned
Ebenezer Methodist Episcopal Cemetery-4-assigned
East Miami River-1
Flag Spring Cemetery-49-completed
Glen Haven Cemetery-109
Green Township-5
Guardian Angels Catholic Cemetery-3
Hayes Rittenhouse-1
Hillcrest Afro-American-4
Huston-1
Laurel-136
Maple Grove-119
Markley-5
Meyers-1
Miami-65
Mt Healthy Evangelical United Brethren-5
Mt Pleasant-34
New Burlington-18
New Haven-16-assigned
Oak Hill-19
Our Lady of Victory-6
Reading Protestant-91
Rose Hill-2
Salem Methodist Episcopal-2
Schulinger-1
Shiloh-2-assigned
St Aloysius Gonzaga-14-assigned
St Bernard Catholic-4-assigned
St James of White Oak-10
St John the Baptist Catholic Churchyard-2
St John-17
St John Catholic-19
St Michael Catholic-5
St Paul Evangelical-2
St Peter and Paul, Reading-18
St Peter and Paul Old, Reading-2
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran-1
Union-6
Union Baptist African American-151
United African American-47
United Brethren-2
United Jewish, Clifton-9
United Jewish, Price Hill-10
Van Blaricum, privately owned-4
Vine St Hill-800+ (will have this be a large team project)
Whitewater-8
Willsey-6
Woodlawn-14
Zion United Brethren-7
Think about the cemeteries near
you, or ones that you are familiar with and check in with us to volunteer.
If you would like to volunteer please email our coordinator
for volunteers on this project, Jane Fitzpatrick, at jmfitz@fuse.net.
Please indicate how you would like to be involved:
- Volunteer photographer at cemetery (pick one or several)
- Research our list of soldiers on Find a Grave (and add them to a virtual cemetery)
- Create memorials or add photos to Find a Grave
There are no deadlines for completion of the project; we’ll just keep moving ahead till we are finished.
If you have any questions, feel free to email any of us on
the Cemetery committee:
Amy Hartman, echoamy@yahoo.com
Pam Sattari, pami@fuse.net
Jane Fitzpatrick, jmfitz@fuse.net
Jean Morrison, morrij3@cinci.rr.com
