"Sec 1, T3, R5E - Eaton Pike (West Third Street, US 35) s of Pk on National Military Home grounds, [exact] location unknown, inactive (Kinsey family cemetery), no recorded inscriptions." From Cemetery Atlas of Montgomery County, Ohio, by Townships, by Don Bowman, 1976.

The graves of Henry Kinsey, Eva Wampler Kinsey, Jacob Wolf and Hannah Kinsey Wolf were last seen in 1940 by Kinsey family historian Francis Albert Dynes.

In 1986, the Assistant Chief of Engineering at the Veterans Administration, in a reply to an inquiry made by some cousins regarding the Kinsey cemetery, wrote that an area believed to have been a private cemetery on the grounds had been located. A meeting was arranged and the cousins were driven to the area on a slight hill on which were two flat stones which may have been fallen headstones or just flat rocks. An investigation of the stones was not allowed and, unfortunately, they were only photographed from a distance.

It is likely that at least the following people were also buried here: John Kinsey and his wives Barbara Elizabeth Heckman and Anna Elizabeth Wagaman and Abraham Kinsey's first wife Mary Magdalena Wagner.

Addendum 10/31/13: according to an article published in 1900, the cemetery was located by Mrs. Z. Luther "on the knoll where the Deer Lodge now stands." The Deer Park and Keeper's Lodge can be seen in the Combination Atlas Map of Montgomery County, Ohio - 1875, by L.H. Everts (http://content.daytonmetrolibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/maps/id/198 pages 20-21). The map also depicts several buildings and features which still exist including the road which loops past the Headquarters and the entrance to the Deer Park (39º44'25.82" N, 84º15'14.71" W ?). Looking at these features on a modern map, it seems that any knoll in the vicinity would have been leveled to make way for U.S. 35.



The cemetery is located in Jefferson Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, and is # 8312 (Kinsey Cemetery) in "Ohio Cemeteries 1803-2003", compiled by the Ohio Genealogical Society.