Cemeteries -- Ohio -- Montgomery County

Abstract

The collection contains handwritten and typed documents of burial plots and grave records, maps, financial reports and receipts, deeds, ledgers, meeting minutes, photographs, and correspondence. The records pertain to both New Greencastle Cemetery and Old Greencastle Cemetery, which are burial grounds of some of the founders of Dayton.

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of digital photographs of all surviving, visible gravestones at Old Greencastle Cemetery, located at South Broadway and Miami Chapel Road, Dayton, as of February 2019. The photo documentation project was undertaken by local Boy Scout Stephen Quick as his Eagle Scout service project.

Abstract The Woodland Cemetery Collection contains materials relating to the organization and business ventures of the Woodland Cemetery Association. Materials such as organization histories, rules and regulations, meeting minutes, financial records, and correspondence provide a history of the organization while documents such as interment and cremation records provide insight into the function that the cemetery plays in Dayton, Ohio. In addition to these written documents, there are numerous visual...