How-To Series: Wayne County Resources, Cemetery Records
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See Also
Location Guides
- A Location Guide for the Cemeteries of Wayne County, Ohio
- Ohio Cemeteries: 1803-2003
Resources
- Death certificates/records
- Newspapers
- Obituaries
- Internment records
- Township records
- Township minutes
- Poor records
- Tombstone inscription compilation records
- Grave digger's records
- Loose leaf papers
Internet Resources
Cemeteries
- BillionGraves
- Find-A-Grave
- Veteran Burials in Wayne County
- Digitized version plus of Marvin R. Oswald's book, In Memoriam
- Ohio Cemeteries
- Ohio Gravestones Project
- USGenweb Project
Organizations
- Daughters of the American Revolution, Wooster-Wayne Chapter
- Ohio Genealogical Society
- Wayne County Cemetery Preservation Society
- Wayne County Genealogical Society, 1st edition
- Wayne County Genealogical Society, 2nd edition
- Wayne County Historical Society
Wooster Cemetery
- Wooster Cemetery
- Written and compiled by Thelma S. Ungerer, published ca. Feb 1972
- Addendum covers the years 1972-1980
- Organized by first letter of surname, then by burial date
- Information varies but does include the name of the deceased, the burial date, section number, lot number and remarks/permit number
- Wooster Cemetery Burial Permits
- Book 1 includes permits 2 through 413
- Book 2 includes permits 414 through 836
- Wooster Cemetery: Wooster, Ohio 1852 thru 2003: More than Just Tombstone Readings
- Published in 2004 as a 2003 Ohio Bicentennial Project by the Wayne County Genealogical Society
- Data compiled by Robert E. & Esther J. Strock
- Consulted the internment records of the Wooster Cemetery Association
- Organized by section and lot number
- Includes two indexes: by name and by maiden name
- Includes a map of the entire cemetery, showing the section numbers
- Includes a map of the entire section, showing the lot numbers
Wayne County, Ohio Burials
- Wayne County Cemeteries, Townships, Notebooks
- Compiled by the Wayne County Cemetery Preservation Society
- Includes newspaper clippings
- Includes tombstone inscriptions of smaller cemeteries
- Wayne County Cemeteries
- Lateral files
- Notebook including miscellaneous articles
- Wayne County, Ohio Burial Records
- Published by the Genealogical Section of the Wayne County Historical Society in 1975
- Includes a surname index
- Includes a listing of veterans of the American Revolution, War of 1812, and Mexican War
- Includes an Addenda with corrections
Updated Wayne County, Ohio Burial Books
- Orr Cemetery, compiled and written by Michele Lynn Davisson Brooks
- Publications of the Wayne County Cemetery Preservation Society
- See the website of WCCPS for listing of publications
Veteran Burials in Wayne County
- In Memoriam, by Marvin R. Oswald
- Updated and expanded version online
- Veterans Buried in Wayne County, Ohio
- Wayne County Grave Registration Cards
- WPA Project
- Compiled in the 1930s
- Includes veterans buried in Wayne County, Ohio
- Wars include from the American Revolution through World War I
- Some errors; few source citations