Woodland
Cemetery
Submitted
by Sharon M. Kouns
IR
Nov. 10, 1870 - What to Name It. - Ironton has now a fifty acre
cemetery. Last week a
professional graveyard architect was put on it to lay it off in
lots, walks and drives. Now
comes the demand for a name.
What shall it be? This
question has agitated the City Council most violently.
Poetic regions have been scoured for a soft, delicious
expression, betokening.....(type later)
IR
Aug. 5, 1875 - The Cemetery keeper’s house has been struck by
lightening several times this year , so that he is now getting
used to it. Very
little damage has been done.
IR
Mar. 31, 1881 - Mr. D.P. ANDERSON recently erected two beautiful
monuments in Woodland. One
is Scotch granite, 14’ high for late I.C. DOVEL, other is John
T. EVANS. Made of
Italian marble.
IR
Mar. 31, 1881 - p3 c5 Story about enlarging Woodland Cemetery, was
then 54 acres…
IR
May 10, 1883 - Squire Sutton finished some repairs on the cemetery
bridge.
IR
Oct. 30, 1890 - The sub-structure of the Cemetery bridge was
completed, last Monday, and now is waiting the bridge itself.
IR
Feb. 12, 1891 - Woodland cemetery bridge is about completed.
The finishing touches will be put on this Thursday, and
Thursday afternoon the Council are invited to go up and inspect
it. Engineer Brown
says it is the best bridge in Lawrence county.
IR
June 25, 1891 - An addition will be built to the house at the
entrance of Woodland Cemetery.
IR
Sept. 24, 1903 - More Land. - To be Purchased for Woodland
Cemetery. - The City Council met in regular session Friday night,
four members present, with Mr. Culbertson in the chair.
The reading of the minutes was dispensed with.
- ... A
petition
from the trustees of Woodland cemetery requesting the council to
authorize the trustees to purchase a strip of land adjoing the
cemetery owned by Catharine Lambert at a price not to exceed $800
was read and the request granted.
A resolution authorizing the purchase of the land was
adopted...
SWR
Sept. 3, 1919 - Deaths. - Thurman Moore, aged 29 years, died
..this morning at the home of his father-in-law, Mr. R. H. Sarles,
who resides in Woodland Cemetery...[do
not have end - strange way to phrase this???]
1914
- picture - The bridge at the entrance of Woodland Cemetery, the
most beautiful cemetery in Southern Ohio.
