Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio

Good morning,

On a beautiful, sunny day My Honey and I paid a visit to Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

The cemetery is about ten minutes from our home by car and we pass it regularly.  Today we stopped in to enjoy this beautiful place.

This is a very old section of the cemetery and many of the names are easily recognizable.  McAlpin's Department Store was on Fourth Street in Downtown Cincinnati until about twenty years ago.

There are huge monuments in this section and some very small monuments.

 The sheer size of the monuments is awesome.  The arrangement is a large monument bearing the patriarch's name with smaller stones with family members around it.

 The grounds of the cemetery include beautiful lakes and trees.

 It's hard to read the name Fleischmann above the door.  If you have baked bread at home, you have probably used yeast made by the Fleischmann company.  I went to the door and peered through the iron bars.  I could see gold chalices and leaded glass windows inside.  Just beautiful.

 Spring Grove Cemetery is the second largest cemetery in the United States.  The largest cemetery is Arlington Memorial Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.

 We spent a couple of hours here taking pictures and I have many more to share with you.

 I'll share some of the more unusual tombstones and memorials in another post.  Some very famous people are buried here, too, including Johnny Appleseed.

We have visited several Civil War battlefields and cemeteries and have learned a great deal about the people who fought and died in the American Civil War.  Most of the burials in the section of the cemetery in the images I have here today were before that war.

Do you sometimes visit cemeteries and to read and learn about people buried there?

Best,
Lois

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