Cemetery Name

Old School Baptist Church

Township

Status

First Known Burial

General Condition

Tombstone Condition

OGS Cemetery #

Location:

Coordinates:

STR/ VMD

Property Account:

Parcel ID:

Map:

• Aerial Image of the cemetery location from
• Range 4 Township 4 Section 32 from Warner's 1867 Warren County Ohio Wall Map
• USGS GNIS - Old School Baptist Cemetery; FID #1963102
• Google Map at coordinates 39° 32' 10"N, 84° 10' 12"W
• Warren County Auditor for Property Account # 122584, Parcel ID 09301270040
  shows a 1.006 acre parcel in Twp 4 Range 4 Section 30
• Aerial Image of the cemetery location from Bing Maps
• Range 4N Township 4E Section 30 from Warner's 1867 Warren County Ohio Wall Map
• 1882 History of Warren County, Ohio, page 594
  ". . . The first church established in the township was unquestionably the Baptist Church, at or near Ridgeville, known as the Clear Creek Church. It was established in 1797, Rev. James Sutton being the first pastor. . . ."

Cemetery History

This is an old, inactive cemetery originally established as a graveyard for the first Baptist church in Warren County that was once located at this site on the east side of Ohio 48, north of Ridgeville. There were 231 known burials in the cemetery dating from 1800 (Phebe Kelsey) to 1984 with all but four of them occurring before 1900.  There are 10 known veterans buried in the cemetery including 5 from the Revolutionary War, 3 from the War of 1812 and 2 from the Civil War. See list below.

The famous educator Francis Dunlavy was a member of the sponsoring church, but he is not buried here. Fergus McLean is, however, and he was the founder of Ridgeville and the father of Supreme Court Justice John McLean. Stephen Bunnell, who moved to the area in 1805 because he didn't agree with his home state, Kentucky, in its stand on slavery, is buried here too. The last known burials in the cemetery were of Charlotte Hoffman (1980) & her husband Otto Hoffman (1979) who had lived in the house adjacent to the cemetery and of Anna H. Troeger in 1984.
 

Cemetery Transcriptions

• D.A.R. TURTLECREEK CHAPTER:
  Early Vital Records, Volume 4 pp. 64-67
• WARREN COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY:
  Vol 6 Old Cemeteries in eight townships, pages 342-347

• Our thanks to Warren County Genealogical Society volunteer, Dana Palmer who photographed all extant gravestones on 11 Sep 2010 & 9 Oct 2010. Dana's photos have been added to those previously submitted by Arne H Trelvik in 2004 & 2005 and by John Walker in 2005. All of the photos have been added to this website. These efforts will be incorporated into the new cemetery books planned by the society. If you have photos of any additional gravestones at this cemetery, please consider adding them to the Warren County Virtual Cemetery Project.

Gravestone Images

Gravestone photos for the Warren County, Ohio Virtual Cemetery Project are being posted to the Warren County OHGenWeb Project
To view images ===> Old School Baptist Church Cemetery
To submit images ==> email to Arne H. Trelvik at atrelvik@gmail.com [please send high resolution digital images if available]