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Columbus City South Cemetery

Memorials	:	11
Location	:	Columbus, Franklin County, USA
Coordinate	:	39.9158040, -82.9902310
Description	:	In the last decade of the 19th century, the Franklin County Probate Court in Columbus, OH, began listing burial locations for the deceased in its published death records. At that time, the majority of Columbus' city graveyards were defunct, and the interments mostly removed to Green Lawn Cemetery in the southwest quadrant of Columbus. Also during that era, Franklin County began operating a cemetery at the Franklin County Infirmary, Columbus' last "poor house" on Alum Creek Road in Marion Township, which obviated the need for a large municipal cemetery. Columbus maintained a small tract of land a few miles south... Read More	In the last decade of the 19th century, the Franklin County Probate Court in Columbus, OH, began listing burial locations for the deceased in its published death records. At that time, the majority of Columbus' city graveyards were defunct, and the interments mostly removed to Green Lawn Cemetery in the southwest quadrant of Columbus. Also during that era, Franklin County began operating a cemetery at the Franklin County Infirmary, Columbus' last "poor house" on Alum Creek Road in Marion Township, which obviated the need for a large municipal cemetery. Columbus maintained a small tract of land a few miles south of the city limits that was occasionally used to bury the poor and unclaimed or unidentified transients. Court records referring to the Columbus' South Cemetery were sometimes noted as "city cemetery," and sometimes as "potter's field," which accurately defines its function. The South graveyard property was adjacent to the Franklin County Pest House, where deceased people with highly communicable and deadly diseases such as small pox were interred, rendering the larger tract of little commercial value to the city. In his book _The Columbus City Graveyards_, © 1985, author and historian Donald M. Schlegel explains the disposition of the graveyard both before and after its demise: "At a meeting of the county commissioners held on May 18, 1893 the entire tract was declared to be surplus and on the same day was sold to Frank J. Reinhard and Jared P. Bliss for $12,000.33 The tract was platted as Johnson's South Grove Addition in 1898 but the lots did not sell well and most of the plat was vacated in 1912. The Johnsons then sold off the land in larger tracts but were unable to sell the graveyard until 1938." (p. 37) Eventually, the city paved over parts of the former graveyard to provide access to housing development via Fifth Street. Apparently there had been little attempt to relocate the deceased because workers found graves during excavation and construction of private homes situated on the former cemetery site. While Columbus' South Graveyard is now defunct and completely obliterated by progress, it remains the final known resting place of an unknown number of people. The memorials in this cemetery document burials archived in the Franklin County Probate Court death ledgers from about 1890 until sometime in the early 20th century, under circumstances where there is no subsequent record of reinterment and no other memorial demonstrating relocation.

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Latitude: 39.9158040
Longitude: -82.9902310

Nearby Cemetories:

1. Franklin County Pest House Cemetery
Columbus, Franklin County, USA
Coordinate: 39.9141460, -82.9909060

2. FCSO K9 Cemetery
Franklin County, USA
Coordinate: 39.9078130, -83.0204420

3. Green Lawn Abbey Mausoleum
Columbus, Franklin County, USA
Coordinate: 39.9406128, -83.0160370

4. Livingston Park Cemetery
Columbus, Franklin County, USA
Coordinate: 39.9514008, -82.9787979

5. Temple Israel Cemetery
Columbus, Franklin County, USA
Coordinate: 39.9464836, -83.0222626

6. Franklin County Infirmary Cemetery
Columbus, Franklin County, USA
Coordinate: 39.9313310, -82.9419130

7. Mount Calvary Cemetery
Columbus, Franklin County, USA
Coordinate: 39.9480800, -83.0223800

8. Green Lawn Cemetery
Columbus, Franklin County, USA
Coordinate: 39.9403000, -83.0325012

9. New Ahavas Shalom Cemetery
Franklin County, USA
Coordinate: 39.9183350, -82.9370117

10. Old Agudas Achim Cemetery
Columbus, Franklin County, USA
Coordinate: 39.9334870, -82.9419600

11. Old Beth Jacob Cemetery
Columbus, Franklin County, USA
Coordinate: 39.9331280, -82.9416200

12. Tifereth Israel Cemetery
Columbus, Franklin County, USA
Coordinate: 39.9328520, -82.9414140

13. Old Ahavas Shalom Cemetery
Columbus, Franklin County, USA
Coordinate: 39.9330230, -82.9412910

14. Watkins Cemetery
Obetz, Franklin County, USA
Coordinate: 39.8744011, -82.9880981

15. Temple Israel Cemetery
Columbus, Franklin County, USA
Coordinate: 39.9184494, -82.9360275

16. New Agudas Achim Cemetery
Columbus, Franklin County, USA
Coordinate: 39.9171982, -82.9344025

17. New Beth Jacob Cemetery
Columbus, Franklin County, USA
Coordinate: 39.9155998, -82.9332962

18. Beth Jacob Cemetery
Columbus, Franklin County, USA
Coordinate: 39.9156196, -82.9332356

19. New Tifereth Israel Cemetery
Columbus, Franklin County, USA
Coordinate: 39.9164009, -82.9321976

20. Union Methodist Cemetery
Columbus, Franklin County, USA
Coordinate: 39.9192162, -83.0499039

21. Trinity Episcopal Church Columbarium
Columbus, Franklin County, USA
Coordinate: 39.9622866, -82.9976831

22. Saint Joseph Roman Catholic Cathedral Crypt
Columbus, Franklin County, USA
Coordinate: 39.9632530, -82.9946442

23. Peters Cemetery
Grove City, Franklin County, USA
Coordinate: 39.9141650, -83.0561990

24. Obetz Cemetery
Obetz, Franklin County, USA
Coordinate: 39.8760262, -82.9472885

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