Litchford Cemetery
Upper Arlington, Franklin County, Ohio
Perry Township
No evidence remains
Graves were relocated in 1955
so Upper Arlington High School could be built on the site
The cemetery was located at
Ridgeview and Mt. Holyoke Roads
Legal Land Description
Photo from The Columbus Dispatch 21 Aug 1955 p. 3-D
"Moving Graveyard School Board's Job"
This document is a project of
Central Ohio Grave Search
| Name | Date of Birth | Year of Birth | Date of Death | Year of Death | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Body #01 Unidentified (adult) | Union Cemetery Interment Book indicates removal from cemetery on Upper Arlington High School site to Union Cemetery-Old Cemetery, Section 26, Lot 388 on 31 Oct 1955 | ||||
| Body #02 Unidentified (adult) | Union Cemetery Interment Book indicates removal from cemetery on Upper Arlington High School site to Union Cemetery-Old Cemetery, Section 26, Lot 388 on 31 Oct 1955 | ||||
| Body #03 Unidentified (adult) | Union Cemetery Interment Book indicates removal from cemetery on Upper Arlington High School site to Union Cemetery-Old Cemetery, Section 26, Lot 388 on 31 Oct 1955 | ||||
| Body #04 Unidentified (adult) | Union Cemetery Interment Book indicates removal from cemetery on Upper Arlington High School site to Union Cemetery-Old Cemetery, Section 26, Lot 388 on 31 Oct 1955 | ||||
| Body #05 Unidentified (adult) | Union Cemetery Interment Book indicates removal from cemetery on Upper Arlington High School site to Union Cemetery-Old Cemetery, Section 26, Lot 388 on 31 Oct 1955 | ||||
| Body #06 Unidentified (adult) | Union Cemetery Interment Book indicates removal from cemetery on Upper Arlington High School site to Union Cemetery-Old Cemetery, Section 26, Lot 388 on 31 Oct 1955 | ||||
| Body #07 Unidentified (adult) | Union Cemetery Interment Book indicates removal from cemetery on Upper Arlington High School site to Union Cemetery-Old Cemetery, Section 26, Lot 341 on 31 Oct 1955 | ||||
| Body #08 Unidentified (adult) | Union Cemetery Interment Book indicates removal from cemetery on Upper Arlington High School site to Union Cemetery-Old Cemetery, Section 26, Lot 341 on 31 Oct 1955 | ||||
| Body #09 Unidentified (adult) | Union Cemetery Interment Book indicates removal from cemetery on Upper Arlington High School site to Union Cemetery-Old Cemetery, Section 26, Lot 341, no date of burial listed. [Other burials in this series are 31 Oct 1955 or 02 Nov 1955] | ||||
| Body #10 Unidentified (adult) | Union Cemetery Interment Book indicates removal from cemetery on Upper Arlington High School site to Union Cemetery-Old Cemetery, Section 26, Lot 341 on 02 Nov Oct 1955 | ||||
| Body #11 Unidentified (adult) | Union Cemetery Interment Book indicates removal from cemetery on Upper Arlington High School site to Union Cemetery-Old Cemetery, Section 26, Lot 341 on 02 Nov 1955 | ||||
| Body #12 Uniform (adult) | Union Cemetery Interment Book indicates removal from cemetery on Upper Arlington High School site to Union Cemetery-Old Cemetery, Section 26, Lot 341 on 02 Nov 1955. This entry contains the word "Uniform" instead of "Un-identified." This entry in the Interment Book contains the notation "Reserved for transfer" | ||||
| Body #13 Unidentified (adult) | Union Cemetery Interment Book indicates removal from cemetery on Upper Arlington High School site to Union Cemetery-Old Cemetery, Section 26, Lot 336 on 07 Nov 1955 | ||||
| Body #14 Unidentified (adult) | Union Cemetery Interment Book indicates removal from cemetery on Upper Arlington High School site Union Cemetery-Old Cemetery, Section 26, Lot 336 on 07 Nov 1955 | ||||
| Body #15 Unidentified (adult) | Union Cemetery Interment Book indicates removal from cemetery on Upper Arlington High School site to Union Cemetery-Old Cemetery, Section 26, Lot 336 on 07 Nov 1955 | ||||
| Body #16 Unidentified (adult) | Union Cemetery Interment Book indicates removal from cemetery on Upper Arlington High School site to Union Cemetery-Old Cemetery, Section 26, Lot 336 on 07 Nov 1955 | ||||
| Body #17 Unidentified (adult) | Union Cemetery Interment Book indicates removal from cemetery on Upper Arlington High School site to Union Cemetery-Old Cemetery, Section 26, Lot 336 on 07 Nov 1955 | ||||
| Body #18 Unidentified (adult) | Union Cemetery Interment Book indicates removal from cemetery on Upper Arlington High School site to Union Cemetery-Old Cemetery, Section 26, Lot 336 on 07 Nov 1955 | ||||
| Body #19 Unidentified (adult) | Union Cemetery Interment Book indicates removal from cemetery on Upper Arlington High School site to Union Cemetery-Old Cemetery, Section 26, Lot 387 on 07 Nov 1955 | ||||
| Body #20 Unidentified (adult) | Union Cemetery Interment Book indicates removal from cemetery on Upper Arlington High School site to Union Cemetery-Old Cemetery, Section 26, Lot 387 on 07 Nov 1955 | ||||
| Body #21 Unidentified (adult) | Union Cemetery Interment Book indicates removal from cemetery on Upper Arlington High School site to Union Cemetery-Old Cemetery, Section 26, Lot 387 on 07 Nov 1955 | ||||
| Body #22 Unidentified (adult) | Union Cemetery Interment Book indicates removal from cemetery on Upper Arlington High School site to Union Cemetery-Old Cemetery, Section 26, Lot 387 on 10 Nov 1955 | ||||
| Body #23 Unidentified (adult) | Union Cemetery Interment Book indicates removal from cemetery on Upper Arlington High School site to Union Cemetery-Old Cemetery, Section 26, Lot 387 on 10 Nov 1955 | ||||
| Body #24 Unidentified (adult) | Union Cemetery Interment Book indicates removal from cemetery on Upper Arlington High School site to Union Cemetery-Old Cemetery, Section 26, Lot 387 on 10 Nov 1955 | ||||
| Body #25 Unidentified (adult) | Union Cemetery Interment Book indicates removal from cemetery on Upper Arlington High School site to Union Cemetery-Old Cemetery, Section 26, Lot 387 on 11 Nov 1955 | ||||
| Jones, Wilbur Jr. | 31 Mar | 1897 | 31 Dec | 1897 | No gravestone was found at the time of the 2014 reading. Green Lawn Cemetery interment records indicate born at 157 North 17th Street, Columbus, Ohio, son of Wilbur B. Jones & Emma Litchford, died of spinal meningitis, removed from Litchford Cemetery, Upper Arlington, Ohio, to Green Lawn Cemetery, Section 27, Lot 123 on 02 Nov 1955, permission granted in Nov 1955 by Wilbur B. Jones & Edith A. Jones, lot owners, 1244 South Street Andrews Place, Los Angeles, California, relation to Lot Owner: Brother |
| Litchford, Frederick A. | 01 Apr | 1824 | Jan | 1906 | No gravestone was found at the time of the 2014 reading. Green Lawn Cemetery interment records indicate born in Lynchburg, Virginia, son of Pleasant & Patience Litchford, died of pneumonia, last residence Perry Township, Franklin County, Ohio, removed from Litchford Cemetery, Upper Arlington, Ohio, to Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio Section 27, Lot 123 on 02 Nov 1955, permission granted in Nov 1955 by Wilbur B. Jones & Edith A. Jones, lot owners, 244 South Street Andrews Place, Los Angeles, California, relation to Lot Owner: Grandfather |
Sources:
ancestry.com message board, "Looking for family of Litchford, Pleasant of Ohio born in VA," 03 Feb 2001, http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.litchford/15/mb.ashx
Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio, Lot Book page for Section 27, Lot 123, interment cards, and register of interment documents for Frederick A. Litchford and Wilbur Jones, Jr.
Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, case file documents in the matter of Board of Education of the Upper Arlington City School District vs. Clarence Ross et. al [heirs of Pleasant Litchford, for the appropriation of cemetery land], Case No. 192745, June 1955-Apr 1956. The following known heirs are listed in the court documents:
Katherine Bange
Blanche Barnett
Katherine Bange
Blanche Barnett
David Barnett
Maria L. Bryant
Aurelius Depp
Girlda Fulton
Bessie Graham
Howard Herms
Queen Depp Jeffries
Edith Jones
Edna Lewis
Mabel Lindsay
Swain Lindsay
Ardania Lucas
Ollie B. Newsome
Clarence Ross
Admiral Ross
Lillie Smith
Alice Stewart
Helen Stewart
Almeda Vaughn
Jack Walker
Marjorie Wallace
History Committee of the Upper Arlington Bicentennial Committee, Marjorie Garvin Sayers, Chairman and Editor Marion Grasso, Co-Chairman (comp.), History of Upper Arlington, Upper Arlington Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio (1977), p. 78-79 http://www.uaarchives.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15062coll1/id/5686/rec/1 [Special thanks to Laura Moorman, Reference Department, Upper Arlington Public Library, for locating information on Pleasant Litchford in this source]
History of Franklin and Pickaway Counties, Ohio, Williams Bros. (1880), p. 379
Available on google books http://books.google.com/books?id=hZk_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA379&lpg=PA379&dq=pleasant+litchford+history+of+franklin+and+pickaway+counties&source=bl&ots=SSPJxlwiee&sig=RI8JLzzF-8oP_WYcpUh9odKtYC4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=fBptU6DZGY6xyASt4YDYCg&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=pleasant%20litchford%20history%20of%20franklin%20and%20pickaway%20counties&f=false
The Journal of Negro History, "Some Undistinguished Negroes," "Some Ohio Negro Pioneers," Volume 5, p. 484-486 http://archive.org/stream/jstor-2713684/2713684_djvu.txt
McGarey, Mary, The Columbus Dispatch, Moving Graveyard School Board's Job," 21 Aug 1955, page 3-D
Union Cemetery Interment Book containing dates Oct-Nov 1955
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