I'm looking for a brick wall of my gg grandfather, John Jackson Collier, d 5 Jul 1872. At least I think this is him..I have an small obit that states he died at Branch Hill, Clermont County, OH of paralysis in the 52d year of his age, that was in the Commercial Gazette in Cincinnati on 9 Jul 1872. I'm looking for a burial place of him and maybe some other COLLIER brothers. Thanks for any help you can give me. Donna in PA

Greetings list; I am looking for information on Sarah (Earle) Dark. In 1834 they left England aboard Barque Woodsmen landing in NH. Sarah (Earle) Dark along with her son John, daughters Sarah Ann Dark and Ann Sarah Dark and one nephew Benjamin Dark left NH sometime between 1834 and 1839 to arrive in Clermont Co. In Sept of 1839, Sarah Ann Dark Married William Wainright. In 1842, Ann Sarah Dark married John W. Thompson. At the present, I can find no record of Sarah {Earl} Dark nor her son and nephew. I thought for sure she or they would appear on the 1840 census but to no avail. Sometime after 1850, the two daughters left with their Husbands to Benton Co, Missouri. I think maybe She may have remarried or moved. In 1834, John was 9 and Ben was 22. Sarah had a husband by the name of Thomas Dark Jr. and he is a mystrey too. Any help would be appreciated as these ancestors have been a real challenge..thanks Gerald

Group, There is, at least today, no city of Roselawn, it is a neighborhood of Cincinnati. Although in fact most of these neighborhoods were separate villages in the 1800's and in some cases early 1900's. Longview is bordered on the west by Interstate 75 which is the boundary with the village of Elmwood Place, on the south by Elm Park Drive in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Bond Hill on the west side of Paddock Rd and by Maketewah country club on the east side of Paddock Rd., on the north by Section Rd which crosses Paddock Rd. in an east west direction. A part of the institution lay north of Section Rd which is considered to be the boundary between the neighborhood of Bond Hill and the neighborhood of Roselawn on the east side of Paddock Rd. On the west side of Paddock Rd is the Cincinnati neighborhood of Carthage. Today part of the old grounds has been sold off and has been commercially developed. At one time there was a children's unit as well as facilities for adluts. The local Kiwanis club provided toys etc. for these children. Herman Kleine -----Original Message----- From: Clark452@aol.com <Clark452@aol.com> To: OHCLERMO-L@rootsweb.com <OHCLERMO-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, April 24, 2000 3:37 PM Subject: Re: Longview Hospital >Longview Hospital, City of Roselawn, (a northern Cincinnati suburb) in >Hamilton County, Ohio. This article is from the Cincinnati Post; published >11-06-98; written by Laurie Petrie, Post staff reporter. If you would rather >read the article onlinet, below is the URL and link to the Post newspaper >article: ><A HREF="http://www.cincypost.com/news/1998/cem110698.html"> >Click here: cem110698</A> >www.cincypost.com/news/1998/cem110698.html > >A new diginity for old cemetery, forgotten lives? >By Laurie Petrie, Post staff reporter > >Tucked between an apartment complex and an industrial park in Roselawn, a >neglected cemetery - a remnant of the old Longview State Mental Hospital - >lies hidden by brush and weeds. > >Few people - other than neighborhood vandals - know how to get in because the >main entry is all but grown over. There is little to see now, except for a >cement obelisk with a granite marker at its base. A poem carved in the marker >says God has not forgotten those buried there. > >Nearly everyone else has, though. Though no one necessarily intended for the >cemetery to be neglected, its near-abandonment has seemed a further insult to >mental patients who were shut away in life and forgotten in death. > >Recently, the cemetery has been rediscovered and an effort is underway to >resore it. On Veterans Day, Nov. 11, several officials and consumers of >mental health services will rededicate the cemetery. Speakers will include >John Gilligan, who visited all the mental hospitals in Ohio when he was >governor in the 1970s. Arrangements also are being made for a Disabled >American Veterans color guard. > >The project to restore the old Longview cemetery started earlier this year >when Mike Fontana, president of the Mental Health Association of the >Cincinnati Area, heard about cemetery restoration projects on the grounds of >mental hospitals in Georgia and Massachusetts. > >The projects have been initiated and led by former and current mental health >patients who today call themselves ''consumers'' and ''survivors.'' > >''In another era, I and the many consumers I work with . . . may have wound >up in such a grave,'' said Fontana, who was a patient in the former Central >Ohio Psychiatric Hospital in Columbus in the early 1980s. > >Fontana researched the history of the old Longview cemetery, tried to find >the names of those buried there and organized the dedication ceremony. He's >been working with officials of the Pauline Warfield Lewis Center, the state >mental hospital that took over when Longview closed after 1981. > >''This isn't a project just about the dead. It's about the present, about >ex-patients reclaiming our dignity,'' said Pat Deegan, a founder of the >National Empowerment Center, an advocacy group, and leader of the >Massachusetts restoration ef forts at several state mental hospitals. > >For Cincinnatian Jim Birch, the old Longview cemetery is even more than a >cause and a symbol - it's part of his family history. Birch discovered that >his great-grandmother died as a Longview patient on May 18, 1922, and, >according to her death certificate, was buried in the hospital cemetery. > >A German immigrant to Cincinnati, Eva Rinner led a tragic life. She was >admitted to Longview in 1911 and died of inflammation of the kidneys. A >record from the Children's Home of Cincinnati, where one of her sons was >placed, said Eva Rinner ''was made insane by fright. Two Hungarian women >started to beat her.'' > >This week, Birch visited the old cemetery for the first time. It was more >overgrown and secluded than he had expected. > >''I think a person who is buried at Longview Cemetery would deserve the same >respect as a person buried at Spring Grove,'' he said. > >Birch does not know which grave is his great-grandmother's. He may never >know. All but a few of the markers have sunk into the ground and are not >visible. > >But even if the markers are found, they are nothing more than small square >cement blocks bearing numbers. There are no names or dates. Ohio's mental >hospitals kept lists of grave numbers with names, but in the case of >Longview, the record is missing. > >The map shows 1,160 grave plots, but it is unclear how many people are buried >there. The final grave marker is number 870. The last burial was Aug. 4, >1967. Those buried in state mental hospital cemeteries were indigent or had >no one to claim their bodies. > >Most of Ohio's state mental hospitals did not have cemeteries. Of the five >that did, all have been closed, but only Longview is in poor condition. The >neglect began after Longview closed and most of the land was sold to the >Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Sciences, Inc. for development as an >industrial park. The cemetery, which is still owned by the state of Ohio, >became landlocked and all-but-forgotten. > >Over the years, however, the Rev. Ray Menchhofer, chaplain at the Lewis >Center, kept his eye on the place and struggled to protect it from vandals. > >''If this is something people can feel good about, getting involved restoring >something, I wholeheartedly support it,'' Menchhofer said. > >The Ohio Department of Mental Health favors the restoration project and will >give some money, said spokesman Sam Hibbs. The Mental Health Association of >the Cincinnati Area plans to accept donations to help restore the cemetery. > > >Publication date: 11-06-98 > >______________________________

I have a Cincy newpaper photo of when they tore down Wesley Church on East 5th, Cincinnati,to build the Procter and Gamble Towers, that Rev Learner Blackman's tombstone was found under the floor of the church. His brother,my James, was one of two Methodist class-leaders serving downtown Cincinnati,1825-50. Many were names for Rev Learner Blackman. Perhaps the private club,the L.B.Harrison club still survivies in Cincinnati. I see the good Methoists of the Dover,Del circut really lucked out. Not only did the have the future Bishop Francis Asbury live with them at Judge White's in the Rev War,but also, they had both my own Rev Jesse Justice,and my many great uncle,Rev Learner Blackman, as ministers. I wonder if we have Dover Co Del people in Clermont because of that. Rev Learner Blackman rode the TRACE to Natchez with Rev Lorenzo Dow,and was Dow's ' elder awhile.Dad calls. On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 12:50:48 -0500 "MGski" <mggrab@polar.polarcomm.com> writes: > I thought this may be of interest to New Jersey-Ohio Blackman > descendents: > > From the vertical files of Gloucester County, NJ Historical Society > Submitted by Robert B. Steelman, October 23, 1965 > > LEARNER BLACKMAN (1781-1815) > > Son of David Blackman (1747-1821) and Mary Clark (1753-1827) > > Second son in a family of 6 boys and 3 girls. > > Born in English Creek, New Jersey. > > Converted at the age of 16 by the first sermon preached by his > brother-in-law, the Rev. John Collins, father of Methodism in > Cincinnati, > who had married Learner's sister, Sarah. > > He married Elizabeth Odom Elliot, a widow of Sumner County, > Tennessee. She > later married Joseph T. Elliston of Nashville and lived there the > rest of > her life. > > Joined the Philadelphia Conference on trial in 1800 at the age of > 19. > > Served the following appointments: > > 1800 - Kent Circuit, Maryland > 1801 - Dover Circuit, Delaware > 1802 - Russell Circuit, Virginia > 1803 - New River Circuit, Virginia > Holston Circuit, Tennessee > 1804 - Lexington Circuit, Kentucky > 1805 - Natchez Circuit, Mississippi > 1806 & 1807 - Presiding Elder, Mississippi District > 1808 & 1809 - Presiding Elder, Holston District > 1810 & 1811 - Presiding Elder, Cumberland District > 1812, 1813, & 1814 - Presiding Elder, Nashville District > 1815 - Presiding Elder, Cumberland District > > Chaplain to the Tennessee Volunteers under Gen. Andrew Jackson > during the > War of 1812. > > Delegate to the General Conferences of 1808 and 1812. > > Acquainted with presidents Andrew Jackson and William Henry > Harrison. > > Helped found first campmeeting in Mississippi and the Old Southwest > at > Washington, Mississippi in 1804. > > Drowned while crossing the Ohio River at Cincinnati in June of 1815 > while > enroute home from a visit with his brother-in-law and sister, John > and Sarah > Collins. > > Buried in the Old Stone Chapel (Wesley Church) Cincinnati. > > > ==== BLACKMAN Mailing List ==== > If you are unsubscribed from the Blackman mailing list > unintentionally, please resubscribe. A full mailbox, computer error, > or spam may cause you to be unsubscribed. >

Greetings List; Here are some marriage records that I have from the Clermont County record book: Vincent Wainright married Nancy Hall in Batavia, Clermont Co. Nov. 18, 1824. John Wainright married Maria Dimmitt in Batavia, Clermont Co. Feb 23, 1832. Daniel Wainright married Eliza Jane Crammer in Batavia, Clermont Co. December 13, 1849. Jacob Wainright married Mary Leever in Batavia, Clermont Co, March 10, 1842. Adelia Wainright married Joseph Kid in Batavia, Clermont Co, Mar 13, 1836. William Wainright married Sarah Ann Dark in Batavia, Clermont, Co. Sep 29, 1839 Can anyone tell me who performed these marriages or if they are descendents of William Wainright who appears on the 1820 census in Stonelick TWP. Any information would be greatly appreciated, thanks. Gerald

Hi Claudia, I don't recognize any of your James names, but I haven't gotten as far back as you. I'll tell you what I have. My Grandfather-Samuel Henry James b. 7-20-1879, Waverly,Ohio d. 11-13-49, Williamsburg, Ohio buried in Middletown, Ohio Brothers & Sisters-Walter, Fred, William, Sadie, Hattie m. Harry Peters My GGrandfather-Samuel Nathan James m. Rebecca Ann Ward Don't have much information yet. They were all from Middletown, Ohio area. Don't know about GGrandparents yet. Debbie

thank you to everyone who gave information on Longview Hospital. I am going to try the Ohio Historical Society first for a death certificate. I have my grandmothers (Viola James) obituary. It says she died in a hospital, no mention of Longview. She was buried in Middletown, Ohio. I did not know she was in Longview until I was over 40 years old. I was 2 when she died. She died from strangulation. She got a chicken bone lodged in her throat. My Aunt Hazel Jensen told me about it. There was so much shame and disgrace about mental illness back then. I don't know what her mental problem was. I guess being in a mental hospital years back was pure hell. My Aunt said sometimes when they would go to visit she would be all beat up from fights with other patients. Who knows what went on behind closed doors? Terrible!! I bet her death certificate won't mention Longview. Let you know when I get it. Debbie

I'm back on the mailing list after an absence while we moved from CA back to OH. Still searching for parents of SILAS DALIE who came to Clermont Co.about 1838-40. He was born in ME, m. CYNTHIA COOMBS there. Son GEORGE WASHINGTON DALIE lived in Clermont Co. for about 10 years from 1838-48. Would love to hear from anyone who is researching these families. Phyllis __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com

Great project! Most of us have had our lives touched by mental illness and understand the need for respect and dignity for all persons, alive and deceased. I do not have relatives from that hospital but have sympathy for those who do. I am going to make a contribution to the Cincinnati Mental Health Association to help this restoration. Thanks for the information. Lynda L. Hamilton Speidel ----- Original Message ----- From: <Clark452@aol.com> To: <OHCLERMO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 3:37 PM Subject: Re: Longview Hospital > Longview Hospital, City of Roselawn, (a northern Cincinnati suburb) in > Hamilton County, Ohio. This article is from the Cincinnati Post; published > 11-06-98; written by Laurie Petrie, Post staff reporter. If you would rather > read the article onlinet, below is the URL and link to the Post newspaper > article: > <A HREF="http://www.cincypost.com/news/1998/cem110698.html"> > Click here: cem110698</A> > www.cincypost.com/news/1998/cem110698.html > > A new diginity for old cemetery, forgotten lives? > By Laurie Petrie, Post staff reporter > > Tucked between an apartment complex and an industrial park in Roselawn, a > neglected cemetery - a remnant of the old Longview State Mental Hospital - > lies hidden by brush and weeds. > > Few people - other than neighborhood vandals - know how to get in because the > main entry is all but grown over. There is little to see now, except for a > cement obelisk with a granite marker at its base. A poem carved in the marker > says God has not forgotten those buried there. > > Nearly everyone else has, though. Though no one necessarily intended for the > cemetery to be neglected, its near-abandonment has seemed a further insult to > mental patients who were shut away in life and forgotten in death. > > Recently, the cemetery has been rediscovered and an effort is underway to > resore it. On Veterans Day, Nov. 11, several officials and consumers of > mental health services will rededicate the cemetery. Speakers will include > John Gilligan, who visited all the mental hospitals in Ohio when he was > governor in the 1970s. Arrangements also are being made for a Disabled > American Veterans color guard. > > The project to restore the old Longview cemetery started earlier this year > when Mike Fontana, president of the Mental Health Association of the > Cincinnati Area, heard about cemetery restoration projects on the grounds of > mental hospitals in Georgia and Massachusetts. > > The projects have been initiated and led by former and current mental health > patients who today call themselves ''consumers'' and ''survivors.'' > > ''In another era, I and the many consumers I work with . . . may have wound > up in such a grave,'' said Fontana, who was a patient in the former Central > Ohio Psychiatric Hospital in Columbus in the early 1980s. > > Fontana researched the history of the old Longview cemetery, tried to find > the names of those buried there and organized the dedication ceremony. He's > been working with officials of the Pauline Warfield Lewis Center, the state > mental hospital that took over when Longview closed after 1981. > > ''This isn't a project just about the dead. It's about the present, about > ex-patients reclaiming our dignity,'' said Pat Deegan, a founder of the > National Empowerment Center, an advocacy group, and leader of the > Massachusetts restoration ef forts at several state mental hospitals. > > For Cincinnatian Jim Birch, the old Longview cemetery is even more than a > cause and a symbol - it's part of his family history. Birch discovered that > his great-grandmother died as a Longview patient on May 18, 1922, and, > according to her death certificate, was buried in the hospital cemetery. > > A German immigrant to Cincinnati, Eva Rinner led a tragic life. She was > admitted to Longview in 1911 and died of inflammation of the kidneys. A > record from the Children's Home of Cincinnati, where one of her sons was > placed, said Eva Rinner ''was made insane by fright. Two Hungarian women > started to beat her.'' > > This week, Birch visited the old cemetery for the first time. It was more > overgrown and secluded than he had expected. > > ''I think a person who is buried at Longview Cemetery would deserve the same > respect as a person buried at Spring Grove,'' he said. > > Birch does not know which grave is his great-grandmother's. He may never > know. All but a few of the markers have sunk into the ground and are not > visible. > > But even if the markers are found, they are nothing more than small square > cement blocks bearing numbers. There are no names or dates. Ohio's mental > hospitals kept lists of grave numbers with names, but in the case of > Longview, the record is missing. > > The map shows 1,160 grave plots, but it is unclear how many people are buried > there. The final grave marker is number 870. The last burial was Aug. 4, > 1967. Those buried in state mental hospital cemeteries were indigent or had > no one to claim their bodies. > > Most of Ohio's state mental hospitals did not have cemeteries. Of the five > that did, all have been closed, but only Longview is in poor condition. The > neglect began after Longview closed and most of the land was sold to the > Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Sciences, Inc. for development as an > industrial park. The cemetery, which is still owned by the state of Ohio, > became landlocked and all-but-forgotten. > > Over the years, however, the Rev. Ray Menchhofer, chaplain at the Lewis > Center, kept his eye on the place and struggled to protect it from vandals. > > ''If this is something people can feel good about, getting involved restoring > something, I wholeheartedly support it,'' Menchhofer said. > > The Ohio Department of Mental Health favors the restoration project and will > give some money, said spokesman Sam Hibbs. The Mental Health Association of > the Cincinnati Area plans to accept donations to help restore the cemetery. > > > Publication date: 11-06-98 >

RUMERY and Boothby are very,very down east Maine people. York-wells,Kittery Me area. 1798,Rev Moses Witham settled his colony on RT 125 in very west Clermont,at Withamsville,Oh [I-275 AND I-75]. Witham,Bradbury,Bragdon,Bennett,Bennett etc He bought 800 acres of speculation land 20 miles east on RT 125.at the, 1818] Clermont-Brown Co,Oh line-Yamkeetown,Oh, and settled Moses Rumery,Josiah Boothby, BRADBURY,DORRELL, GOULD, et al there. 1811-12, with the British navy harrassing our coast,and shipping, many Nantucket whalers,and a 3rd ME colony settled at Amelia-Hamlet-Bantam-Lindale inbetween the 1st 2 settlements. On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 07:23:09 -0500 "Keith D. Rhoades" <krhoades@uswest.net> writes: > I'm tracing the PETERS, KENNEDY, RUMERY, AND BOOTHBY > FAMILIES. anyone else? > > keith rhoades krhoades@uswest.net > ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

A few years ago while at Cincinnati Library, I found a roll of Census microfilm for Hamilton Co. marked Institutions(not sure of the year think it was 1920. Was not a lot of info name. age, and birthplace. But it might help some one. Carolyn

I too am interested in the MEEK family. Our John MEEK was born 24 Apr 1784, d. 23 Jan 1850 in Wayne Twp. He married Rachel MILLS, b. abt 1793, d. 23 Jan 1850, Wayne Twp. They had many children, one of whom was Sarah who married John SHRINER, 16 Feb 1842. Any further info on the MEEKS or MILLS would be appreciated. Lynn Burnett, Seattle

I grew up in the "Order of Knights of Pythias" and know that my Catholic friends could not join because of church restictions. We invited them, and a couple even joined, but the Priest "counseled" them. As with the Masonic Lodge and some others, there are secret work, pledges, etc., and the church did not approve.

Debbie, As a kid my friends and I played football on the grounds of Longview. Sometimes the guards chased us out. Longview State Hospital was located on Paddock Rd between Elm Park Drive and Section Rd. Today the facility is known as Pauline Warfield Lewis Center. It is in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. I believe the zip is 45237 (at least it used to be). You should expect that death records withing the boundaries of Cincinnati to be held by the City of Cincinnati. However, since this was a state facility they may be held by the county. Herman Kleine -----Original Message----- From: allen gibson <kristal@mindspring.com> To: OHCLERMO-L@rootsweb.com <OHCLERMO-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, April 24, 2000 8:52 AM Subject: Longview Hospital >Got some skeletons in my family tree. My Grandmother died in Longview >Hospital.Viola James-about 1941. Does anyone know where it is located? Is >it still in operation? I need the County and City to apply for a death >certificate. Thanks, Debbie > >______________________________

Anna KofP is Knigths of Pythias. IOOF is International Order of Odd Fellows. Herman Kleine -----Original Message----- From: AnnaW9241@aol.com <AnnaW9241@aol.com> To: OHCLERMO-L@rootsweb.com <OHCLERMO-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, April 24, 2000 7:07 AM Subject: Ribbons >Would anyone know what these ribbons stand for? >One with: > Williamsburg > Council, No. 114 > Jr. O.U.A.M. > Williamsburg, > OHIO > > >another with: ANGOLA > Lodge, No.231 > I.O.O.F. > Williamsburg, OHIO > > >another with: Williamsburg > Lodge, No. 585 > K of P > Williamsburg, OHIO > > >Anna Wagner > >______________________________

Elma, I have a copy of the 1999 Clermont county map published by the county engineer, who it turns out is a friend of mine. Love road does not run between Felicity and Chilo. However, I can tell you exactly how to get to this road which runs between Felicity Cedron Rural Rd. and Franklin Rd. First, coming from the north, take Ohio 133 into Felcity which is Market St. Travel south to Harrison St. Turn left on Harrison and go east out of town. Harrison becomes Felicity Cedron Rural Rd. About a quarter mile out of town there is a T intersection. Turn right on Love Rd. Love Rd runs south about a quarter mile and turns west at Penny Rd. It then runs about a tenth of a mile where it ends at the Franklin Rd T intesection. If you go to Felicity from the south coming from US 52, you would take Ohio 133 north to Franklin Rd and reverse the process. The Franklin Rd, Love Rd intersection is about 2 tenths of a mile east of Ohio 133. Franklin Rd. is about 4 tenths of mile nort of US 52 on Ohio 133 Herman Kleine -----Original Message----- From: Jacksonelm@aol.com <Jacksonelm@aol.com> To: OHCLERMO-L@rootsweb.com <OHCLERMO-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, April 21, 2000 1:22 PM Subject: Mt. Olive Cem. in Franklin Twp. >I am looking for how to get to the old Mt. Olive Cemetery in Franklin Twp. >It looks like it is across a field from Love Road which is between Felicity >and Chilo, I think. I plan to be in the area in late June and want to find a >grave in it. I have the list of burials as read by someone and published in >the book about Clermont Co. Cemeteries before 1900. But to save time, I need >to know exactly how to DRIVE to it FROM Felicity. Can anyone help. To be >specific, I am going to look for the grave marker for Mrs. Elizabeth Trisler, >consort of Jacob Trisler, died July 16, 1849, age 66 years 1 day. > Elma Jackson Burke, Houston, TX >

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------61B5CACBDC749A9D4FAF60F8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------61B5CACBDC749A9D4FAF60F8 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Message-ID: <38DC5AC4.A0E22782@pop.ptld.uswest.net> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 22:20:53 -0800 From: glpygott@pop.ptld.uswest.net Reply-To: glpygott@uswest.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "OHCLERMO-L-request@rootsweb.com" <OHCLERMO-L-request@rootsweb.com> Subject: 1820 Census Look-up Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Greetings All; Does anyone have access to the Clermont county 1820 Census? If so; would some one look up William Wainwright in Stonelick TWP. I am particularily interest if he had a son 2-3 years of age. Any help would be appreciated, thanks Gerald --------------61B5CACBDC749A9D4FAF60F8--

Greetings List Does anyone have access to the 1820 Census for Clermont Co?. If so could someone do a look up for me? The 1820 Census index shows a William Wainwright in Stonelick. I am wonderin if this could be the father of my Grandfather William Wainwright who married Sarah Ann Dark in Batavia 1839. My Grandfather was born in 1817, any help would be appreciated, thanks Gerald

The Independent order of Odd Fellows was started in England in the 1700s, & brought to America in 1819 by Thomas Wildey, who had been a member in England. The intent was to help one's fellow man and undertake works to benefit mankind. "Odd Fellows" because this was such a rare and unusual mission. Their sister organization is the Rebekahs, and the organization is alive and well. They enter a float yearly in the Pasadena Rose Parade. The Knights of Pythias (from the friendship of Damon & Pythias), was founded in Washington D.C. in 1864. Their goal is Universal Peace, Friendship, Charity, Benevolence. Also still active. The Jr. Order of United American Mechanics was founded in Philadelphia in 1845 as the Union of Workers. The original purpose was a kind of union movement to protect jobs from the influx of immigrants. No longer active. To learn more, use the search engine google.com and enter the name of the organization. There is a lot on the history of each. Regards, Virginia. ----- Original Message ----- From: <AnnaW9241@aol.com> To: <OHCLERMO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 7:07 AM Subject: Ribbons > Would anyone know what these ribbons stand for? > One with: > Williamsburg > Council, No. 114 > Jr. O.U.A.M. > Williamsburg, > OHIO > > > another with: ANGOLA > Lodge, No.231 > I.O.O.F. > Williamsburg, OHIO > > > another with: Williamsburg > Lodge, No. 585 > K of P > Williamsburg, OHIO > > > Anna Wagner > >

Longview Hospital, City of Roselawn, (a northern Cincinnati suburb) in Hamilton County, Ohio. This article is from the Cincinnati Post; published 11-06-98; written by Laurie Petrie, Post staff reporter. If you would rather read the article onlinet, below is the URL and link to the Post newspaper article: <A HREF="http://www.cincypost.com/news/1998/cem110698.html"> Click here: cem110698</A> www.cincypost.com/news/1998/cem110698.html A new diginity for old cemetery, forgotten lives? By Laurie Petrie, Post staff reporter Tucked between an apartment complex and an industrial park in Roselawn, a neglected cemetery - a remnant of the old Longview State Mental Hospital - lies hidden by brush and weeds. Few people - other than neighborhood vandals - know how to get in because the main entry is all but grown over. There is little to see now, except for a cement obelisk with a granite marker at its base. A poem carved in the marker says God has not forgotten those buried there. Nearly everyone else has, though. Though no one necessarily intended for the cemetery to be neglected, its near-abandonment has seemed a further insult to mental patients who were shut away in life and forgotten in death. Recently, the cemetery has been rediscovered and an effort is underway to resore it. On Veterans Day, Nov. 11, several officials and consumers of mental health services will rededicate the cemetery. Speakers will include John Gilligan, who visited all the mental hospitals in Ohio when he was governor in the 1970s. Arrangements also are being made for a Disabled American Veterans color guard. The project to restore the old Longview cemetery started earlier this year when Mike Fontana, president of the Mental Health Association of the Cincinnati Area, heard about cemetery restoration projects on the grounds of mental hospitals in Georgia and Massachusetts. The projects have been initiated and led by former and current mental health patients who today call themselves ''consumers'' and ''survivors.'' ''In another era, I and the many consumers I work with . . . may have wound up in such a grave,'' said Fontana, who was a patient in the former Central Ohio Psychiatric Hospital in Columbus in the early 1980s. Fontana researched the history of the old Longview cemetery, tried to find the names of those buried there and organized the dedication ceremony. He's been working with officials of the Pauline Warfield Lewis Center, the state mental hospital that took over when Longview closed after 1981. ''This isn't a project just about the dead. It's about the present, about ex-patients reclaiming our dignity,'' said Pat Deegan, a founder of the National Empowerment Center, an advocacy group, and leader of the Massachusetts restoration ef forts at several state mental hospitals. For Cincinnatian Jim Birch, the old Longview cemetery is even more than a cause and a symbol - it's part of his family history. Birch discovered that his great-grandmother died as a Longview patient on May 18, 1922, and, according to her death certificate, was buried in the hospital cemetery. A German immigrant to Cincinnati, Eva Rinner led a tragic life. She was admitted to Longview in 1911 and died of inflammation of the kidneys. A record from the Children's Home of Cincinnati, where one of her sons was placed, said Eva Rinner ''was made insane by fright. Two Hungarian women started to beat her.'' This week, Birch visited the old cemetery for the first time. It was more overgrown and secluded than he had expected. ''I think a person who is buried at Longview Cemetery would deserve the same respect as a person buried at Spring Grove,'' he said. Birch does not know which grave is his great-grandmother's. He may never know. All but a few of the markers have sunk into the ground and are not visible. But even if the markers are found, they are nothing more than small square cement blocks bearing numbers. There are no names or dates. Ohio's mental hospitals kept lists of grave numbers with names, but in the case of Longview, the record is missing. The map shows 1,160 grave plots, but it is unclear how many people are buried there. The final grave marker is number 870. The last burial was Aug. 4, 1967. Those buried in state mental hospital cemeteries were indigent or had no one to claim their bodies. Most of Ohio's state mental hospitals did not have cemeteries. Of the five that did, all have been closed, but only Longview is in poor condition. The neglect began after Longview closed and most of the land was sold to the Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Sciences, Inc. for development as an industrial park. The cemetery, which is still owned by the state of Ohio, became landlocked and all-but-forgotten. Over the years, however, the Rev. Ray Menchhofer, chaplain at the Lewis Center, kept his eye on the place and struggled to protect it from vandals. ''If this is something people can feel good about, getting involved restoring something, I wholeheartedly support it,'' Menchhofer said. The Ohio Department of Mental Health favors the restoration project and will give some money, said spokesman Sam Hibbs. The Mental Health Association of the Cincinnati Area plans to accept donations to help restore the cemetery. Publication date: 11-06-98