Fellow Researchers, The folks who died, 1944-1955 at the State Hospital in Massilon would have been buried in which cemetery? Is there an on-line photo of that facility? Any cemetery records? Some of my own CLAY & HOY ancestors lived in Franklin Twp. 1820-1844. In the early years it was part of Stark Co. It then became annexed to Summit Co. They lived in Berks Co. PA before that & then moved to JoDaviess Co. IL in 1844. Nancy Meyers

If the people in the State Hospital had relatives they buried them in what ever cemetery they wanted. I do volunteer work for our Genealogy Group putting the obits on line and have seen where they may have been taken back to the town they had lived in previously. Some of my relatives when to their home church being Catholic and others went to the Massillon Cemetery if there was no one but the state to bury them. They are in the potters fields with no head stones but the records are in the Massillon Cemetery records. In potters field I have been told they were not allowed to have head stones. The state wasn't going to pay for them. Sometimes as one man did you have to end up going to the record office at the cemetery and do the look up with the help of a very nice lady that works there. She will give you a map and numbers. He had to go back several times until he found the correct round little marker they place beside and usually now covered with dirt beside each plot. Go to the Massillon public library site and glick on obits at the top right hand side. There is also a genealogy site but that is links to other sites. Jean Adkins e-mail address is in there and she would do look ups and snail mail the obit to you. Which would give you what ever information was available. Jean is great help with all this. She gets so into the hunt that I would call her a great detective. Donna North Lawrence, OH