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	St. Nicholas Cemetery Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio

Cemetery: St. Nicholas Cemetery

Other: Cemetery of St. Nicholas Congregation

Sign: No

Street: Wheeling Av. near the corner of Richards Rd.

City: Zanesville

Township:

County: Muskingum

State: OH

Nation:

Zip: 43701

Status: Abandoned

Size: Medium

Directions: Rt 40 From Richards Road up Wheeling Ave. on the left

Type: Road-public

Location: Urban

Terrain: Hillside

Watersource: No

Features: Totally overgrown -- humour has it that the graves were moved, but the headstones remained (?)

Property: Private

Access: Inaccessible

Enclosure: None

Gate: None

Established: ?

Gravestones: ?

Oldest: ?

Newest: ?

Removed: No

Relocated: Unsure

Repairs: No

Methods: Adhesives

Restoration: No

Association: Unsure

Records: Unsure

Inventory: Unsure

Availability:

Landscaping: Unsure

Paths: Unsure

Trees: Yes4

Crypts: Unsure

Fencing: No

Brickwork: No

Ironwork: No

Sculpture: Yes

Fountains: No

Roads: No

Buildings: No

Cement: Yes

Granite: Yes

Marble: Yes

Native: Unsure

Slate: Unsure

Others: Unsure

Wood: Unsure

Materials: Unsure

Architectural: Yes

Angels: Unsure

Draperies: Unsure

Fraternal: Unsure

Hands: Unsure

Lambs: Unsure

Monograms: Unsure

Plants: Unsure

Photos: Unsure

Religious: Unsure

Scrollwork: Unsure

Urns: Unsure

Carvings: Unsure

Condition: Cemetery neglected

Unmarked: Unsure

Broken: Yes

Toppled: Yes

Disintegrating: Yes

Buried: Unsure

Weather: Yes

Pollution: Unknown

Vandalized: Yes

Report: Yes

Overgrowth: Problem-Access

Overgrowth: Graves-Disturbing

Overgrowth: Gravestones-Disturbing

Overgrowth: Gravestones-Damaging

GroundCover: Yes

Moss: Yes

Vines: Yes

Drainage: Good

Problem1:

Problem2: Apathy

Owner: Religious

Use: Dumping

Bordering: Residential

Change: Unknown

Reason: Roads

Visited: Rarely

Archeology: Unknown

Habitat: Yes

Contacted: Community workers

Surnames: Christ, Griener

Other_Information:

It is rumoured that they moved the bodies, but why are the tombstones still there?

Support:

We would --- and if publized others would follow.

Update ( 15 April, 2004):

We found the Plat map at the courthouse ----they cannot find the deed.

N>W> 1/4, Sec 4 T. 12.R.13 Wayne Township, Muskingum CO. O
Date of Plat; Surveyed 11/16,1910 ----at the instance of the Rev. A.L. Leininger.

I have talked with others saying that the graves were not moved.....

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name: Farris and Elissa Wilhite

Email: h_eartland43701@yahoo.com

Date: 2/15/03

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