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Cemetery: Wood's Hill Cemetery
Other: N/a
Sign: Yes
Street: Wood Hill Cemetery Road... near Route 222
City: Chilo
Township: Franklin
County: Clermont
State: OH
Nation: USA
Zip:
lat_ns: N
lat_h: n/a
lat_mmss:
long_ew: W
long_h: n/a
long_mmss:
Status: Inactive
Size: Medium
Directions: Chilo Oh, go north on route 222 to top of hill out
of town 2m, turn left at on to Memorial Road at cemetery go 3m,
to Wood's hill Cemetery road go 1500' it's on left
Type: Road-public
Location: Rural
Terrain: Hillside
Watersource: No
Features: small wrought iron decorative fence in middle
Property: Public
Access: Open
Enclosure: Fence-Broken
Gate: Non-locking
Established: mid 1800's
Gravestones: 100
Oldest: n/a
Newest: n/a
Removed: Yes
Relocated: No
Repairs: No
Methods: Adhesives
Restoration: No
Association: Unsure
Records: Unsure
Inventory: Unsure
Availability:
Landscaping: No
Paths: No
Trees: No
Crypts: No
Fencing: Yes
Brickwork: No
Ironwork: Yes
Sculpture: Yes
Fountains: No
Roads: No
Buildings: No
Cement: No
Granite: Unsure
Marble: Unsure
Native: Yes
Slate: Yes
Others: Unsure
Wood: Unsure
Materials: Unsure
Architectural: Yes
Angels: Yes
Draperies: Yes
Fraternal: Yes
Hands: Yes
Lambs: Unsure
Monograms: Yes
Plants: Yes
Photos: No
Religious: Yes
Scrollwork: Yes
Urns: Unsure
Carvings: Unsure
Condition: Cemetery vandalized
Unmarked: Yes
Broken: Yes
Toppled: Yes
Disintegrating: Yes
Buried: Yes
Weather: No
Pollution: No
Vandalized: Yes
Report: No
VA1: Gravestones-Overturned
VA2: Gravestones-Broken
VA3:
VA4:
VA5: Graves-Desecrated
Overgrowth: None
Overgrowth1:
Overgrowth2:
Overgrowth3:
Overgrowth4:
GroundCover:
Moss:
Vines:
Drainage: Good
Problem1:
Problem2: Apathy
Owner: Cemetery
Use: Agricultural
Bordering: Agricultural
Change: Same
Reason: Roads
Visited: Unknown
Archeology: Unknown
Habitat: No
Contacted: Franklin Twp authorities taken by secretary no
response/Clermont Historical Society, told this is a "very
important graveyard" because it contains several early OH
officials see above as to one.
Surnames:
Utter, English, Buchanan, and many others
Other_Information:
I do have photos at home but I'm at work.....
Submitted by to Ancestry.com/Utter family bulletin board
Can Anyone tell me if they know of any vandalism to Dowty(Douty)
Utter’s grave at Woods Hill Cemetery in Chilo, Ohio? I mean
recently or near in the near past.
While tracing my lineage, this Memorial Day I took my two
daughters to the cemetery to show them where their 6g grand
father was buried. It looked as if a wrecking crew had attacked
the graveyard? I mean not just from weathering and age.
If this is unreported I would like to report it. Dowty’s
headstone was one seriously damaged. And strewn about. I then
had to explain to 2 small children the complex issue of why
people do this.
As I have never been faced with this before I have no idea how
to proceed.
I’m currently going to contact the Clermont County Historical
Society for advisement. But, this lack of respect for an
Underground Railroad conductor, Ohio State senator, early
pioneer of Ohio, and not to mention his lineage in the American
fabric is outrageous (i.e. Edward Douty-Mayflower, and Nicholas
Mattson Utter-New Sweden).
This being the year of the Underground Railroad Museum’s
dedication in Cincinnati a few miles away I’d hope there would
be some reaction by someone here in Clermont County.
Any suggestions?
Support:
Clermont Historical Society
299 S3, Williamsburg, OH
Janet Beedle —Randjb@juno.com
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Name: William E. Parsons
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Date: 8/7/03 |
