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Worthington Cemetery Celebrates 150 Years

By Maureen McCabe

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June 05, 2009 10:09 PM

Worthingtons Walnut Grove Cemetery sign

Worthington's Walnut Grove Cemetery is 150 years old. There is a celebration at the historic cemetery on Sunday June 7, 2009 from 1:00 to 3:00.

The cemetery is 5561 Milton Avenue in Worthington, Ohio. Just north of the southern border of Worthington and the city of Columbus. Cemetery Road will take you to Milton Avenue or you can get to it from W. Lincoln Rd.The Walnut Grove Cemetary is adjacent to the Davis Estate neighborhood on the south end of Worthington. Antrim Park is on the west side of Walnut Grove Cemetery. Worthingtons Walnut Grove Cemetery

The Walnut Grove Cemetery had a float in the Worthington Memorial Day Parade this year. There is a picture of the float in the Slideshow link below. There is also a picture of a lady dressed up as 150 years ago...The lady with the long white dress and the parasol? Would that be how ladies in Worthington Ohio c. 1849 would dress?

Worthington Memorial Day Parade 2009 Slide Show

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Memorial Day 2009

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Ed Vogt

Midwest Properties of Michigan - Grandville, MI

Grandville, MI Midwest Properties

Old cemeteries really fascinate me. The history that is there is amazing. Are you going?

Jun 05, 2009 11:45 PM

Maureen McCabe

HER Realtors - Columbus, OH

Columbus Ohio Real Estate

I think I will. I have a 2:00 open house and some clients who find something last minute to look at most Sundays but I think I can do all three and church and breakfast.... This cemetery is really tucked away between a park and a residential area. Worthington has at least one older cemetery which is right off the Village Green.

I have never really been one to go to cemeteries, old or new.

Jun 05, 2009 11:57 PM

Kristin Johnston - REALTOR®

RE/MAX Platinum - Waukesha, WI

Giving Back With Each Home Sold!

I agree with Ed above...when my hubby and I go for Harley rides in the countryside, we often stop and read the old inscriptions/dates/etc. Walnut Grove...do the Ingalls live there? he hee

Jun 06, 2009 01:15 AM

Was Walnut Grove where the Ingalls lived in WI or when they went west? I suppose Little House in the Big Woods coulda been Walnut Grove? Loved all those books.

Last year we went for a walk in a historic graveyard in Dublin and I took some great photos of old, old grave stones. Heck I took pictures last week in the St. John Church Cemetery, the one off the Village Green so I am spending more time in cemeteries than I want to admit.

Jun 06, 2009 02:59 AM

Andrew Haslett

Van Warren Home Inspections, NAHI CRI - Fort Knox, KY

Heartland of Kentuckynulls, Best Home Inspector

Maureen, did you know that people living in Worthington can't be buried in that cemetery?

You have to be dead! :-)

Jun 07, 2009 03:23 PM

Sally K. & David L. Hanson

EXP Realty 414-525-0563 - Brookfield, WI

WI Real Estate Agents - Luxury - Divorce

Gee...it must be an Ohio thing..it would not have occured to me to use "fun" and cemetary in the same sentence...reading the markers in old cemetaries can be interesting..fun...hmmm..

Jun 07, 2009 11:30 PM

Sadly I did NOT get to the celebration of the Walnut Grove Cemetery yesterday... printing problems (not all mechanical) getting fact sheets for my Riverlea (just minutes from the cemetery) open house ready consumed the first hour when I planned on stopping by to see what a celebration of a cemetery would be like.

Jun 07, 2009 11:39 PM

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