ANNOUNCEMENT: The 2022 Ohio Cemetery Grant fund application is now available per the Ohio Department of Commerce

“CEMETERY GRANT”

“The Ohio Department of Commerce Division of Real Estate and Professional Licensing (REPL) is pleased to announce the availability of the FY2022 Cemetery Grant for qualifying not-for-profit and local government cemeteries. 

Allowable grant requests include those to defray costs of exceptional cemetery maintenance or training cemetery personnel in the maintenance and operation of cemeteries.

Eligible applicants shall be cemetery operators properly registered with REPL, be a documented not-for-profit entity under the IRS tax code and be in compliance with any applicable endowment and/or preneed cemetery merchandise and services trust accounts. The REPL Superintendent is accepting only online applications.

****Please gather all information prior to application entry. Once you start the application, the information entered cannot be saved and if you exit out of the application you will lose all information previously entered.****

The Cemetery Grant application instructions are being provided as a worksheet guidance document only. This will allow you to gather all of the necessary information prior to submitting the grant application online.

****The application must be answered completely to be considered for grant funds and submitted no later than August 2, 2021.“****

Contact: Laura A. Monick at (614) 466-5384 or CemeteryGrants@com.state.oh.us

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FLICKR COLLECTION OF W. P. A. CEMETERY PLAT MAPS FOR OHIO

FLICKR Collection of Belmont County, Ohio WPA Cemetery Plat Maps
https://www.flickr.com/photos/limesstones/collections/72157718334639722/

FLICKR Collection of Crawford County, Ohio WPA Cemetery Plat Maps
https://www.flickr.com/photos/limesstones/collections/72157718631872126/

FLICKR Collection of Defiance County, Ohio WPA Cemetery Plat Maps
https://www.flickr.com/photos/limesstones/collections/72157718393387853/

FLICKR Collection of Erie County, Ohio WPA Cemetery Plat Maps
https://www.flickr.com/photos/limesstones/collections/72157718458488543/

FLICKR Collection of Geauga County, Ohio WPA Cemetery Plat Maps
https://www.flickr.com/photos/limesstones/collections/72157719299046227/

FLICKR Collection of Knox County, Ohio WPA Cemetery Plat Maps
https://www.flickr.com/photos/limesstones/collections/72157718994121414/

Linda Ellis FLICKR Collection of Lake County, Ohio WPA Cemetery Plat Maps
https://www.flickr.com/photos/limesstones/collections/72157719239351571/

FLICKR Collection of Logan County, Ohio WPA Cemetery Plat Maps
https://www.flickr.com/photos/limesstones/collections/72157718503163232/

FLICKR Collection of Lorain County, Ohio WPA Cemetery Plat Maps
https://www.flickr.com/photos/limesstones/collections/72157717885281036/

FLICKR Collection of Morrow County, Ohio WPA Cemetery Plat Maps
https://www.flickr.com/photos/limesstones/collections/72157718752150347/

FLICKR Collection of Muskingum County, Ohio WPA Cemetery Plat Maps
https://www.flickr.com/photos/limesstones/collections/72157688996673853/

FLICKR Collection of Portage County, Ohio WPA Cemetery Plat Maps
https://www.flickr.com/photos/limesstones/collections/72157718874296489/

FLICKR Collection of Trumbull County, Ohio WPA Cemetery Plat Maps – Plat Book 1.:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/limesstones/collections/72157719372525463/

FLICKR Collection of Trumbull County, Ohio WPA Cemetery Plat Maps – Plat Book 2.:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/limesstones/collections/72157719427055691/

FLICKR Collection of Warren County, Ohio WPA Cemetery Plat Maps
https://www.flickr.com/photos/limesstones/collections/72157718783541926/

Mail Call for William Limes of Fayette County, Ohio – 1823

William Limes, War of 1812 veteran, spent the latter part of his life residing in Perry Township, Fayette County, Ohio. 

The newspaper announcement below published April 12, 1823 in “The Supporter & Scioto Gazette” in Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, lists the names of those who still needed to stop by the Post Office located in “Washington” – meaning the City of Washington which is most commonly called and known by Washington Court House, the county seat of Fayette County, Ohio – and pick up their letters before July 1, 1823 to prevent them from being returned to the General Post Office. 

It is amazing to look back not one hundred but almost two hundred years and read a story about the U. S. Post Office which obviously had issues with mounting mail that sat at that point almost two weeks.  Then to go and read that the folks who still needed to ‘redeem’ their mail had an additional two and a half months to pick up their letters (by July 1st) before they would be sent back. 

Having mail delays with timeframes like this one were probably not uncommon occurrences, nor did they create a pressing issue back then as it would be for us who live in our almost instant communication society.  We have to remember that the past lane they traveled in was also a slower paced one.