Location: On a large farm found at the corner of Akron-Wadsworth Road (Rt. 261) and Barber Road

Contact: City of Norton

Status: Lost

History:The name of this cemetery has always been a source of intrigue. While nothing specific has ever been found to explain it, the general consensus is that the earliest burials here may have been of victims of an epidemic of "black plague" also known as diphtheria or black tongue fever. Always remote, the cemetery had long been neglected. In Ohio Cemeteries:1803-2003, published by the Ohio Genealogical Society, the remark is made that many gravestones were scattered when a water tower was erected nearby in the 1950's. In 1990, the three remaining stones found in the cemetery were removed to Norton Center Cemetery where they were reset and a memorial plaque installed.

Chapter Publications:Cemeteries of Summit Co., .OH, Vol. 1, Summit Co. Chapter OGS, 1979 [inscriptions]
NOTE: This volume is now out-of-print. Readings are currently being updated and reformatted for republication in the future. The original volume is available in the Special Collections Dept. of the Akron-Summit County Public Library (Main Branch) as well as many other local libraries.

Copied:: The following inscriptions were read by William McIntosh in 1958 and by Marilyn Welsh and Loretta St John in 1970.