The Runyan Cemetery is an old family cemetery that originally
was located on the 88 acre farm of Henry Runyan, son of William
Runyan. It is now an overgrown 1/2 acre landlocked parcel surrounded
by large home sites and vacant land on the southeast side of the village
of Butlerville. The entrance is marked by two very large trees with
metal crosses nailed to them. Many stones were broken or falling over
when the cemetery was visited in 2009.
There are 27 known burials in this cemetery with surnames of Runyan,
Flomerfelt, Hibbetts, Hicks, Morsbach, Brilling, and Hendricks. The
earliest known burial in 1842 was Eleanor Jane Runyan, the 12 day old
infant of E. L. & C. Runyan. The last known burial was that of Lillian
D. Morsbach in 1932. A neighbor said at one time he remembered seeing
a pile of gravestones in the cemetery. These were not found in November
of 2009.
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| Location: |
- From State Route 132 (Main Street) in Butlerville, go southeast on
2nd Street to the dead end. The cemetery is about 200 feet further southeast
across private property from the dead end of 2nd Street.
Alternately, from the dwelling at 8428 Morrow-Woodville Road (CR 24),
go northeast about 300 feet, again through private property.
- "Ohio Cemeteries 1803-2003" by the Ohio
Genealogical Society , Cemetery #11265 [Runyon-(Runyan)
Cemetery]
- Coordinates: 39° 18' 5.21" N, 84° 05'
17.55" W
- Virginia Military District Survey #980
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| Links: |
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| Transcriptions: |
- D.A.R. Turtlecreek Chapter & Warren County
Historical Society (available at the Historical Society Library)
- Early Vital Records Volume 4, pages 25
- Early Vital Records Volume 8, pages 43
- Warren County Genealogical Society
- Not currently included in any of the Cemetery Books. Our thanks
to Dana
Palmer and Vicki
Bergerhouse who photographed all extant gravestones for the
"Warren
County Virtual Cemetery" Project in November of 2009. All
of the photos have been added to this web site. These efforts will
be incorporated into the new cemetery books planned by the society. If
you have any gravestone photos taken at this cemetery, please consider
contributing them to this project.
- Other Known Transcriptions
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| Variant Names: |
- Runyon Cemetery
- Warren County, Ohio Property Records list the owner of the parcel
as Keller Cemetery. This is not the same
as the Carson or Keller Cemetery (aka
Armstrong Cemetery or James Hill Cemetery) which also is located in
Harlan Township
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