Cemeteries in Marietta, Ohio

Private Cemeteries in Marietta, Ohio often have specific restrictions, such as religious affiliation or family connections. Military Cemeteries in Marietta, Ohio are primarily for veterans and individuals who have served in the armed forces, and in some cases, their family members. Public Cemeteries in Marietta, Ohio are open to the general public without any particular restrictions.

We offer detailed information for cemeteries in Marietta, Ohio , including the names of deceased individuals, their birth and death dates, data about relatives, and cemetery locations. Additionally, you can obtain historical records and conduct searches for ancestors interred in Marietta, Ohio .

Our database contains records of burials from 12 cemeteries.

Among high-ranking officers buried at the cemetery are generals Rufus Putnam and Benjamin Tupper, who were founders of the Ohio Company of Associates; as well as Commodore Abraham Whipple and Colonel William Stacy. The cemetery has the highest number of burials of American Revolutionary War officers in the country.

Located near Cleveland, Lake View Cemetery is hailed as the largest and one of the most significant graveyards in Ohio. Lake View is an arboretum and wildlife refuge with hills and ponds that provide a tranquil landscape.

Steubenville, Ohio's first settlement and also home to the oldest cemetery in the state was founded in 1797 by Bazaleel Wells on the ruins of what had been Fort Steuben.

According to BurialPlanning.com, the average Ohio burial plot is around $1,200. View the chart below for averages of many different states. Though prices are high, the space is owned forever. Also included in this fee is a perpetual care or endowment care.

Over time Green Lawn would grow to its current 360 acres with over 154,000 interments, making it Ohio's second largest cemetery.

In 1990 archaeologists from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History excavated a section of the Capitolium mound and determined that the mound was definitely constructed by peoples of the Hopewell Culture.

More than 17,000 men are buried here, more than 3,000 of them unknown. Many of the men died during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, and a total of 10,172 died during the Civil War.

Family cemeteries or those cemeteries that have had no interments in the last 25 years are exempt from registration. There are currently over 4,100 Ohio cemeteries registered with the Division.

Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery is the second national cemetery built in Ohio and the 119th in the national cemetery system. Currently, there are more than one million veterans living in the State of Ohio and approximately 540,000 residing in the cemetery's service area.