Location: Located on Wedgewood Dr about 100 yards behind Eastgate Shopping Plaza, which is on Canton Rd., in front of the new First Merit Branch.
Status: No More Burials
History:A Depession-era cemetery for 22 Ellet residents who were buried 1930-1939. No gravestones. Abandoned and overgrown until 1998 when Dick Gardner, a local historian, became interested in preserving this cemetery. The grounds were cleaned and a ceremony was held September 19, 1998 to rededicate this cemetery and a new memorial stone inscribed with the names of all known persons who were interred. The small stone in fron t of the memorial says "Memory Lane Cemetery This Depression Era Cemetery restored and maintained by Oak Hill Presbyterian Church and Friends 1998"
Copied:Names listed on the memorial are
Baby Girl Bailey; James Bands; J. Basha; Emma Brautigam(only stone left)
Florence G. Conley; Fred Dollar; Joan Eaken; Baby Boy Detweiler
Burl I. Freed; Fred Grasse; James H. Morgan; Rodney W. Graham
Theron J Parsons; Baby Girl Reynolds; Charles Bernard Ryan
Peter Sallos; Robert O. Smith; Samuel Edward Spencer
Baby Stilwell; Delphos P. Kastner; Baby Girl Brown
Unknown Baby
Pictures taken by Gerry Huhn - Website Coordinator
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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
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Provided by: SUMMIT COUNTY CHAPTER,OGS
Akron OH 44309-2232e-mail: summitogs@yahoo.com