A rededication ceremony will be held at the cemetery off Jackson Run Road on Friday, Sept 26, 2008 at 10:30. Much work has been going on there for the last 2 years to mark the gravesites with nameplates, birth and death date. The 127 year old cemetery has 954 gravesites. The first burial in the cemetery took place in 1881.
The Cemetery was overgrown and virtually forgotten until September 2006 when the State Hospital established a Cemetery Restoration Committee. Committee members did a substantial amount of research of State Hospital archives to locate and identify each of the gravesites, most of which only had obscured numbered ground-level markers and no names or dates.
Funding for the Headstones and Nameplates came from donations from volunteers, the public, and the Hospital Operating Fund. David Kucherawy is CEO of the Hospital. This information is from an article in the Warren Times Observer 9-17-2008.

Linda Bastow