Gearheart Cemetery in Elizabeth Township, Ohio

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Get directions 1776 Knoop Road (County Road 161A)
Elizabeth Township, Ohio 45373 United States

Coordinates: 40.00308, -84.14826
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Circa 1818, this is a private cemetery situated on private property.

Located within Miami County Range 10/Elizabeth Township 2/Section 33 thereby being a site included in the Elizabeth Township Rural Historic District--the First Rural Township in Ohio to be listed in the United States Department of the Interior's National Register of Historic Places (1997).

The cemetery sits on a tree shaded hilltop that was owned by the Gearheart family for 72 years. Later on, it went into the Sheets family ownership for 95 years. The land was then gifted to Stouder Hospital, Troy, Ohio, until 1990 when it was sold into private property ownership where it has remained since.

The cemetery is located in Elizabeth Township, Miami County, Ohio, and is # 7941 (Gearhart Cemetery / Sheets Cemetery) in "Ohio Cemeteries 1803-2003", compiled by the Ohio Genealogical Society.

The Miami County GIS lists the cemetery as the Gearhart Cemetery with parcel ID E09-250032 with Gearhart Cemetery as owner and with map number 021033.0-01-004-00. It is 0.25 acres in size.