Hello, I found this in a series of articles written by R.L. Heminger and shown on The Courier's web site. It indicates that a number of bodies were removed from an old cemetery on E. Sandusky and moved to Maple Grove, interred together in one area, when the railroad came through. Does anyone know if these graves were marked, and/or if the list of "nearly 50 names" is available somewhere. I've lost some relatives from this era and wondered if they might be among the moved ones. Len in Alaska -----------------ARTICLE BY R.L. HEMINGER-------------------- One of the many problems that arose in the building of the Findlay Belt Line Railroad in the early 1890s in the local community involved the question of what to do with the bodies yet remaining in the city's original cemetery just east of Eagle Creek between East Main Cross and East Sandusky streets. This area had been established as the village's burial ground when the town was being developed in the 1820s. It continued as such until late in the 1850s, when the present Maple Grove site was acquired and developed as a cemetery. Most bodies were moved from the original burial ground to Maple Grove in the 1860s. But some were not and remained in the ground when the belt line began to take form. The railroad promoters went to council about the matter. Council decided to sell the ground to the belt line for $400 and ordered relatives and friends of those yet interred to remove the bodies at once. This action was taken by ordinance March 14, 1892. In event of non-removal of bodies, the railroad was given authority to remove the bodies and place them in graves to be provided by Maple Grove. A LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT WAS inserted in the local newspapers listing the names of those still interred in the old burial ground. There were nearly 50 names in the list. There is an area in the west part of Maple Grove Cemetery where a number of bodies were interred together. This presumably is where railroad placed bodies it had to remove.