Hamilton County Genealogical Society Makes a Difference Volunteer Project

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 150^th 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