Hillcrest Cemetery
Also known as Stark County Home Cemetery
Canton, Stark County, Ohio, USA
Most are forgotten. Numbers alone mark many graves.
Some are not marked at all.
Stark County opened Hillcrest Cemetery in 1927 as a burial ground for the indigent -- among them the homeless, welfare recipients, the poor who died penniless. Some had no families; at least no family or friends that cared. Sometimes relatives couldn't be located or couldn't afford a more traditional burial.
All the bodies from the Stark County Home Cemetery were reinterred at Hillcrest and placed in a common grave. Most of the graves at Hillcrest Cemetery do not have stones. Records are kept at Nist & Stark County Public Works Dept., Mahoning Rd. & Maple Ave., Canton, Ohio. Date of Death was rarely recorded. All dates are burial dates.
The cemetery is located in Canton Township, Stark County, Ohio, and is # 11279 (Hillcrest Cemetery / Stark County Home Cemetery) in "Ohio Cemeteries 1803-2003", compiled by the Ohio Genealogical Society.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) feature ID for the cemetery is 1074762 (Franklin Cemetery).
Most are forgotten. Numbers alone mark many graves.
Some are not marked at all.
Stark County opened Hillcrest Cemetery in 1927 as a burial ground for the indigent -- among them the homeless, welfare recipients, the poor who died penniless. Some had no families; at least no family or friends that cared. Sometimes relatives couldn't be located or couldn't afford a more traditional burial.
All the bodies from the Stark County Home Cemetery were reinterred at Hillcrest and placed in a common grave. Most of the graves at Hillcrest Cemetery do not have stones. Records are kept at Nist & Stark County Public Works Dept., Mahoning Rd. & Maple Ave., Canton, Ohio. Date of Death was rarely recorded. All dates are burial dates.
The cemetery is located in Canton Township, Stark County, Ohio, and is # 11279 (Hillcrest Cemetery / Stark County Home Cemetery) in "Ohio Cemeteries 1803-2003", compiled by the Ohio Genealogical Society.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) feature ID for the cemetery is 1074762 (Franklin Cemetery).
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- Added: 12 Aug 2006
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2185508
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