Hillsboro Cemetery
Location of the Hillsboro Cemetery is in Highland County, State Rt 138 South West, Hillsboro, Ohio 45133. Hillsboro Cemetery was created on May 30, 1862 as recorded in Original Book 30, page 349, Highland County Deed Records, the Hillsboro Cemetery Association of the Town Hillsborough purchased from Allen TRIMBLE and wife RACHEL 31 acres 1 quarter and 25 poles of land for a cemetery. On July 22, 1862, in the Original Book 30, page 351, the Association sold to Lafayette Lodge No. 25 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Hillsboro 4 acres. 1 rod and 15 poles "to hold and use the above described premises for burial purposes exclusively". On August 21, 1883, in Original Book 62, page 404, the Lafayette Lodge re-conveyed back to the Association the above land and one additional acre which Chas. WILSON had deeded to the lodge for a roadway on December 13, 1878. In this deed the names of the persons who had previously purchased lots from the Lodge are given. Genealogists should refer to this list of names. This cemetery was originally called "Greenwood Cemetery". Refer to remarks under Methosist, Presbyterian, I.O.O.F. and Woodrow Cemeteries in Hillsboro, Ohio for additional information. Source from Cemetery Inscriptions Of Highland County, Ohio, complied by DAVID N. MCBRIDE ATTORNEY AT LAW & JANE N. MCBRIDE "Wills Regent, WAW-WIL-A-WAY Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution Past President, General Duncan McArthur Chapter, Daughters of 1812 National Society of the American Colonists
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