Thompson Cemetery
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Thompson Cemetery

Perry Township, Shelby County, Ohio, USA

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  • Get directions Pence Road (Township Road 147)
    Perry Township, Ohio 45365 United States
    Coordinates: 40.33169, -84.06284
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Thompson Cemetery, Shelby Co., Ohio has some 30 graves of the Smallwood and Margaret (Kevitt) Thompson extended family, and some of their neighbors and friends who lived in this area. Not all graves listed in a 1977 survey (Memorials of Shelby County, Ohio) were evident on an April 2006 visit, and a few stones were discovered (and photographed) that were not included in that listing. Most of the gravestones have toppled, some have broken and a few are not in the original locations. The damage appears to be the work of weathering and shifting ground, not vandalism. Some stones were buried in the leaf litter and dirt covered. Thompson Cemetery is almost inaccessible on high ground in a large wooded area of a private farm. The are no paths to the cemetery and access is through hilly terrain and ravines traversed by a creek that can be thigh-deep after rains. The cemetery is less than 40 feet square and has become overgrown with vegetation making it nearly impossible to spot during the summer months. The interment of Margaret Thompson, Smallwood's wife, in 1895 appears to have been the latest burial. [Cemetery description by Rick France].



The cemetery is located in Perry Township, Shelby County, Ohio, and is # 11227 (Thompson Cemetery) in "Ohio Cemeteries 1803-2003", compiled by the Ohio Genealogical Society.

Thompson Cemetery, Shelby Co., Ohio has some 30 graves of the Smallwood and Margaret (Kevitt) Thompson extended family, and some of their neighbors and friends who lived in this area. Not all graves listed in a 1977 survey (Memorials of Shelby County, Ohio) were evident on an April 2006 visit, and a few stones were discovered (and photographed) that were not included in that listing. Most of the gravestones have toppled, some have broken and a few are not in the original locations. The damage appears to be the work of weathering and shifting ground, not vandalism. Some stones were buried in the leaf litter and dirt covered. Thompson Cemetery is almost inaccessible on high ground in a large wooded area of a private farm. The are no paths to the cemetery and access is through hilly terrain and ravines traversed by a creek that can be thigh-deep after rains. The cemetery is less than 40 feet square and has become overgrown with vegetation making it nearly impossible to spot during the summer months. The interment of Margaret Thompson, Smallwood's wife, in 1895 appears to have been the latest burial. [Cemetery description by Rick France].



The cemetery is located in Perry Township, Shelby County, Ohio, and is # 11227 (Thompson Cemetery) in "Ohio Cemeteries 1803-2003", compiled by the Ohio Genealogical Society.

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