Date: October 29, 2000
Cemetery: Willshire Cemetery
Street: U.S. Route 33
City: Willshire
County: Van Wert
State: Ohio
Nation: United States
Zip:
Nearby: It as at the south-east corner of Willshire. It
is a road down from TJ's Gas Station.
Land Type: Public
Status: Active
Accessible: Yes
Unmarked graves: Yes
Graves within:
Oldest grave: The earliest stone seen 1842
Newest grave: September 2000
Records: Unsure
Inventory: Yes
Records location: Van Wert County Ohio Cemetery Inscriptions
Volume 5 Liberty, Harrison, and Willshire Townships and West Main
Street Cemetery
Owner:
Condition: Cemetery vandalized
Vandalism
Overgrown-ground cover
Broken Headstones
Buried Headstones
Disintegrating Headstones
Fallen Headstones
Previous contacts:
Work Status: No work started as of yet
Submitted by / Contact for additional Information:
name: Trina Bogle
Email: Floyd707@aol.com
Update
Willshire Cemetery has a newer and older section. The older section
is beyond the trees and next to the river. There are signs of vandalism
in both new and old sections. It looks like a quarter of the cemetery
has it's tombstones toppled over or broken in half. Nobody bothered to
pick them up, they just mowed around them. In the old section you can
see many of the old stones dating back to the 1840's. Some are still
upright but half buried in the ground. You can tell that a lot of
graves are unmarked and people have been throwing the old stones into
the river. Some of the older graves are right at the edge of a hill
that slopes down to the river below. They have cement markers going
around their grave and one of them is eroding over the hill. Pretty
soon the casket may start peeking out the edge of the hill. So much
needs done in the older section. The cemetery is set in a beautiful
area but not maintained like it should be. So much history is here and
a lot of the men buried here are veterans.
