Old Basil Cemetery is located on Market street in Baltimore, Fairfield County, Ohio.
Why, you may ask, is it old? Well, there's a new Basil cemetery too (I think it's official name may be Memorial).
Why, you ask next, is it called Basil when it's clearly in Baltimore? I was told that Basil and Baltimore were separate towns that grew into each other. When they decided to merge, after playing a bit with names like Basilmore, the merged town took the name Baltimore.
If you are quite finished...
This is a lovely little old cemetery. It's very easy to find, but hard to park -- I didn't find any on-street parking, and the only driveway technically belongs to a mechanic's business tucked away behind the cemetery, but no one seemed to mind when I parked beside one of their buildings.
I do wish Fairfield county genealogists would get as organized about on-site directories as those in the Nebraska counties I visited last year; I got spoiled! Fortunately, it's not that big and I did have a list of people to look for from my visit to to the genealogy society.
I found lots of Langels and related folks, mostly from the line of Daniel and Susannah Langel. You can see my finds here. Find A Grave appears to have good coverage -- see their page here.
I'm a genealogist, and the volunteer librarian at a private local and family history library. I natter about my research, largely neglected, and my library, which is undergoing some big changes trying to survive in a world of Ancestry.com and Google.
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Monday, June 11, 2012
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Fairfield County, Ohio
Tuesday after NGS2012, I started a grand tour of cemeteries used by my Langel folks up in the Columbus area. First up on the tour: Mt. Carmel Cemetery, on Basil-Western Road about a quarter mile west of Eversole. It's pretty well hidden by trees if you're travelling west, so I didn't find it until I turned around and headed back east. I didn't see a driveway or parking area, so I just pulled off the side of the road, ran over to the cemetery, and snapped a few quick pictures.
The two markers I was hunting here were the ones for David and Eliza (Behney) Langel, my GGG-grandparents, and Eliza and Elnora Langel, two of their daughters. The stone for Eliza and Elnora presented a new mystery:
The death date for Eliza hasn't been finished! My best guess is that Eliza was still alive when Elnora died in 1914; Eliza bought one stone for both of them and had this carving done. The question is why the date wasn't updated when Eliza died. Did the family (and mortuary) forget? Seems unlikely. Was there not enough money? Perhaps she's not even buried there. Perhaps she moved far enough away that her new neighbors or family didn't know about the old stone. Or maybe she got married and is buried with her husband, under her married name? As usual, one new piece of information creates as many questions as it answers...
The two markers I was hunting here were the ones for David and Eliza (Behney) Langel, my GGG-grandparents, and Eliza and Elnora Langel, two of their daughters. The stone for Eliza and Elnora presented a new mystery:
The death date for Eliza hasn't been finished! My best guess is that Eliza was still alive when Elnora died in 1914; Eliza bought one stone for both of them and had this carving done. The question is why the date wasn't updated when Eliza died. Did the family (and mortuary) forget? Seems unlikely. Was there not enough money? Perhaps she's not even buried there. Perhaps she moved far enough away that her new neighbors or family didn't know about the old stone. Or maybe she got married and is buried with her husband, under her married name? As usual, one new piece of information creates as many questions as it answers...
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