Hopefully it will be of help in locating someone buried in one of the Greenfield cemeteries. It was compiled by volunteers from information found on the internet and other sources. The list is incomplete and we cannot guarantee its accuracy. We list some information concerning people buried in the Greenfield cemetery. The Wright family mausoleum, (1873), Memorial Chapel (1896), Soldiers’ Monument (1907) and the Greenfield Mausoleum (1917 removed 2013) were also added. Other families also moved burials so their families could be in one burial plot. The remains of William Bell (1763-1801), a veteran of the American Revolution and the first recorded burial in Highland County, was disinterred from the Old Buring Ground (cemetery next to Travellers Rest) and re-buried here in the Bell family plot. Mark Dwyer (Section 3B, Lot 181) was the first burial here. As it was then, it is still “a thing of beauty to behold”. The cemetery was laid out in 1868 by Leopold Weltz, a landscape gardener and florist of Wilmington, Ohio. The Greenfield Cemetery is approximately 30 acres in size and was begun in 1868 when about 23 acres were purchased from John Anderson, Isaac Claypool and J.
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