djwest
1 post
2-Jun-2008
11:58 AM
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Is there a way to check a listing of burials online? I am interested in querrying by last name for 1800's burials for genealogy research. Also, is this the cemetery to which bodies were moved that were first buried in downtown Dayton during the late 1700-to early 1800 time period? Thank you.
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driver62
79 post s
2-Jun-2008
3:04 PM
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Are you refering to Woodland cemetary? It's the largest in Dayton. Go to woodlandcemetary.org. They have a searchable database for burials.
Last Edited on 2-Jun-2008 3:04 PM
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Steve K
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12-Jun-2008
9:25 AM
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It's Woodland Cemetery... and yes, many of the burials in downtown Dayton were moved to Woodland. There's a little booklet that lists many of them. I don't think you can search the remarks at the Woodland website (they may not even be in that database), but the Woodland cd-rom has them, and at one time I was able to search for everyone that was re-interred and get a pretty long list of them. Some of them are listed as removed from the "old yard", think some said "Fifth street yard", there was at least one other phrase they used. I was never able to decide if they were making a distinction as to where they were originally buried, or if different people created the entries. Seems to me that most of them were moved the same year... which I'm not recalling at the moment.
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couldnthititsideways
2 post s
10-Jul-2008
11:32 PM
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Woodland Cemetery was where the contents of the graves from the cemetery at Third and Main (!?!?!) were re-interred-dont know the year but pretty early...
Also Dayton used to have a LARGE Catholic Cemetery bounded by Wyoming Street, Fairgrounds Avenue, Main Street and Rubicon Street-everything from this Cemetery was re-buried at Calvary Cemetery.
Also there was a small Jewish Cemetery behind what used to be Sisari's Casbah and is now Flanagan's Pub on Stewart Street-yes, the parking lot behind that building used to be a Cemetery! There was a small house where the caretaker lived, inside ther stone walls (just like the walls at the Fairgrounds). They moved this Cemetery in the mid to late 60's to the Jewish Cemetery on Schantz Ave.-as you drive past that Cemetery, you notice quite a few headstones areanged in sort of a semicircle-these were from the Cemetery on Stewart Street.
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