Ohio, Marietta Cemetery Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

What is in This Collection?
This collection consists of index and images of cemetery records from the Mound, Harmar, and Oak Grove Cemeteries in Marietta, Washington County, Ohio.

What Can These Records Tell Me?
The records vary by cemetery. You may find any of the following:
 * Name and age of deceased
 * Date of Death
 * Location of grave
 * Race and marital status
 * Place of nativity
 * Name of undertaker or mortuary

How Do I Search This Collection?
Before searching this collection, it is helpful to know:
 * Name of the person
 * The location or date of the event

How Do I Analyze the Results?
Compare each result from your search with what you know to determine if there is a match. This may require viewing multiple records or images

What Do I Do Next?
Indexes and transcriptions may not include all the data found in the original records. Look at the actual image of the record, if you can, to verify the information and to find additional information.

I Found Who I was Looking for, What Now?

 * Add any new information to your records
 * Use the age or estimated birth date to find other church and vital records such as birth, baptism, marriage, and death records.
 * Use the information found in the record to find land, probate and immigration records.
 * Use the information found in the record to find additional family members in censuses. Witnesses were usually family members.
 * Repeat this process with additional family members found, to find more generations of the family.
 * Church Records were kept years before counties began keeping records. They are a good source for finding ancestors before 1900.

I Can’t Find Who I’m Looking for, What Now?

 * If your ancestor does not have a common name, collect entries for every person who has the same surname. This list can help you find possible relatives.
 * If you cannot locate your ancestor in the locality in which you believe they lived, then try searching records of a nearby town or county.
 * Try different spellings of your ancestor’s name.
 * Remember that sometimes individuals went by nicknames or alternated between using first and middle names. Try searching for these names as well.
 * Check the info box above for additional FamilySearch websites and related websites that may assist you in finding similar records

Research Helps
The following articles will help you research your family in the state of Ohio.
 * Cemeteries
 * Sexton Records
 * Ohio Guided Research
 * Ohio Record Finder
 * Ohio Research Tips and Strategies
 * Step-by-Step Ohio Research, 1880-Present

Other FamilySearch Collections
These collections may have additional materials to help you with your research.

FamilySearch Catalog

 * Marietta Cemetery Records, 1788-2012
 * Veterans graves registration card file, ca. 1950-2001
 * Military burial records, 1884-1942
 * Death records, 1867-1908
 * Record of wills, 1853-1918
 * Probate record, 1789-1855
 * Probate records, 1852-1953

FamilySearch Historical Records

 * Ohio Deaths and Burials, 1854-1997
 * Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953
 * Ohio Death Index, 1908-1932, 1938-1944, and 1958-2007
 * Ohio Probate Records, 1789-1996

FamilySearch Digital Library

 * Martin R. Andrews, edited and compiled, History of Marietta and Washington County, Ohio and representative citizens 2 volumes. Chicago, Illinois : Biographical Publishing Company, 1902
 * Historical Records Survey Division of Women's and Professional Projects, Works Progress Administration, Inventory of the county archives of Ohio, no. 84, Washington County (Marietta)[Columbus, Ohio : Historical Records Survey, 1938]

Citing this Collection
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