Thank you. I will see if I can find them. Pat Morano ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna St. Felix" <dstfelix@erinet.com> To: <OHHAMILT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 5:48 PM Subject: Wesleyan - Re: [OH-HAMILT] Re: Burial Place of Samuel Williams > We're still working on transcriptions and proofing of transcriptions > for the Wesleyan Wesite (http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohhamcem/), a long > and tedious undertaking with a LOT of almost unreadable (bad > handwriting) thru the years. It'll take us a long time to complete > things but we're plugging along. There are at 25 to 27 now approved > rolls of film available (for the Wesleyan set) thru the Family History > Centers worldwide. There's more yet to be approved if I understand > things correctly. > > - Those names and info now on the site are at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohhamcem/cemlist.html Click on the name if > you see a family member. More can still be added to each file also - > and we're searching for photos of the deceased to add! > > - The published book: This was a first attempt by the Historical > Society with publications like this (so I was told). It contains an > estimated 5% + of errors and ommissions. > > - There is also the ftp site, a earlier work by others: We've found > some problems here also. > http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/hamilton/cemeteries/wesleyan/ > > Donna (Excuse any type-o's. I'm replying 'on-line' thru my server.) > > > >> Thank you so much for this information. It turns out that Samuel > Williams >> was one of the early persons who helped create Wesleyan Cemetery but > since >> the Charter does not have an address for the Charter, it is still up > in the >> air whether it was the M.E. Wesleyan or the Wesleyan. Samuel, > according to >> his will gave quite a few acres of land to his children in the Mt. > Auburn >> area on Auburn Avenue and some of it backing Vine. I wil check this > link >> and also check for the new Cemetery book as there were other members > of the >> family buried there too. Again, thank you. Pat Morano >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "J Hansen" <jrsh9999@earthlink.net> >> To: <patriciamorano@bellsouth.net>; <OHHAMILT-L@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 1:02 PM >> Subject: RE: Burial Place of Samuel Williams >> >> >> Hi Pat, >> The old Methodist church which was displaced by P&G was in downtown >> Cincinnati where the P&G world headquarters now stands. The burials > were >> removed to other cemeteries as Bob S told you. >> Wesleyan Cemetery is on the western side of the city, away from >> downtown. There used to be someone on the list who was active in >> transcribing the Wesleyan Cemetery records and putting them on-line > (maybe >> the site you found?). I'm not sure what the status of that is. > There has >> been a book published on Wesleyan Cemetery records, but that was quite >> awhile ago, and it is my understanding there were a lot of errors and >> omissions, and that a new and improved version is in the works. > Someone >> else on the list may know more. >> Mt. Auburn is now part of the city, but originally located on a hill >> north of the downtown/basin area, east of Vine Street (I'm not sure > Vine >> Street actually goes through Mt. A., although it's close by if it > doesn't). >> Mt. Auburn pretty much merges into Walnut Hills. A big cemetery > there is >> Walnut Hills Cemetery (formerly the German Protestant Cemetery of > Walnut >> Hills), founded in the 1840s, I think. There was also a Jewish > cemetery and >> a Catholic (German?) cemetery fairly close by. There were probably > others >> as well. >> The map on this page http://www.jasche.com/1899cincy.jpg shows a >> M[ethodist] E[piscopal] cemetery in the general Mt. Auburn area. I > have no >> idea what became of this cemetery, or if it still exists. There are > other >> maps on this site (run by someone else who was/is on this list). >> Vine Street runs north all the way from downtown near the Ohio River >> until its name is changed to Springfield Pike in Wyoming, about 15 > miles >> away. It divides the city (and county really) into east and west. >> Vine Street Hill Cemetery is located on the west side of Vine Street >> in Clifton (or just west of Clifton) near the zoo, about 5-6 miles > from the >> river, I would say. It's not in Mt. Auburn. Mt. Auburn is to the > south and >> east. I believe a Vine Street Hill cemetery book is also in the > works (an >> update of an earlier edition). Maybe someone with access to the > local of >> the library can check for you. >> Just throwing out some thoughts. Hope this is of some help. >> Juliann >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Bob Scharf" <rmscharf@ocsnet.net> >> To: <OHHAMILT-L@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 12:16 PM >> Subject: Re: [OH-HAMILT] Burial Place of Samuel Williams >> > As far as that 'factory was built' statement is concerned, I > believe that >> > that may be a reference to an older cemetery that was in a area > wanted for >> >> > a P & G structure. The remains were exhumed and moved to other > burial >> > spots, including Wesleyan. According to a P & G retiree, there were > no >> > gravesites visible when P & G acquired the land. However, when > excavations >> >> > for construction were made, some gravestones were found under the >> > Methodist fellowship hall. Following discussions with the church > and the >> > pastor, 8 feet of dirt was taken from that area and taken to > Wesleyan. Any >> >> > gravestones found were placed on this site at Wesleyan 'along with > a new >> > marker commemorating the move'. It was surmised at the time that > the >> > fellowship hall had been built over the old graves as the church > expanded >> > and that is why the graves were found UNDER the building. >> > Bob S >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: patriciamorano@bellsouth.net > [mailto:patriciamorano@bellsouth.net] >> Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 10:37 PM >> >> If someone can help me with this, it would be greatly appreciated. > We are >> having a difference of opinion as to the burial place of my three > times >> great grandfather, Samuel Williams who died-February 3, 1859 in > Cincinnati, >> OH. We have finally gotten to look at his will and in it he requests > to be >> buried in the Wesleyan Cemetery. I found what I think his a listing > of him >> but no dates with it on a website. The rest of the family thinks he > was >> buried at Mt. Auburn Cemetery which I can find no record of > anywhere. One >> person thought that a factory was built over the cemetery and the > bodies >> removed. I also found another cemtery in the area that Samuel owned > a lot >> of land-Vine Street Cemetery. Vine Street is a part of Mt. Auburn. > Can >> someone straighten me out on this? Thank you. Pat Morano >> >> >> ______________________________ >> >> -- >> No virus found in this outgoing message. >> Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >> Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.1 - Release Date: 4/1/2005 >> >> >> >> >> >> ==== OHHAMILT Mailing List ===~*~*~*~ The Resources in the USGenWeb's > Parade of States Awaits! ~*~*~*~ >> -- Table of all States: http://www.usgenweb.org/statelinks-table.html >> >> ============================Însus images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, > plus so much more. >> Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx >> >> >