Jonathan Grable Burying Ground
Green Twp, Summit County, Ohio
Pictures taken courtesy of Carol Wells
Location:In Southgate Park, Green Twp. off Massillon Road (Rt 241), north
of Mt Pleasant Road
Status:Closed
Established:ca 1830
History:Legend placed this cemetery on the farm of Jonathan Grable which
was located "about two miles south of Greensburg". Grable, who died in 1856, was said to have been buried here along
with about one dozen others. Until the early 1990's, many believed that all evidence of the cemetery had been lost.
It was then that a distant relative of the Grable family, Marilyn Vander Veen, visited from Indiana and set out to
locate the cemetery. She was successful, locating it behind a home off of Massillon Road; the home was then owned
by a Canton businessman who used it as a guest house. Mrs Vander Veen discovered in talking with the caretakers
that two tombstones had been removed from the cemetery and placed in the basement of the house to protect them from vandals.
When she was taken to see them, she found the two stones noted below. In recent years, these stones have been replaced in
a small fenced-in graveyard behind the house thought to be close to the original burial place.
Copied:The following inscriptions were copied around 1991 by Marilyn Vander Veen;
these two stones were being stored in the farmhouse basement at the time.
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SURNAME
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GIVEN NAME
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BORN
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DIED
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REMARKS
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| GRABLE |
Jonathan |
. |
Jul 24, 1856
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75y 9mos
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| MARKHAM |
Elizabeth |
. |
Jan 8, 1853
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27y; w/o A. Markham(ANSEL)NOTE: Elizabeth was widow of Moses Grable, son of Jonathan Grable
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The Summit County Chapter, OGS is always
looking for new information on our county's lost or forgotten cemeteries.
If you have questions or information on this cemetery please send e-mail
to the Chapter at: summitogs@yahoo.com
Information updated by Judy Davis - Cemetery Chair
Last
modified May 21, 2007
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2001 Summit County Chapter, OGS. All rights reserved