Alternate Names:  Boston Mills Cemetery

 

Established:  Earliest known burial was in 1814

 

Current Status:  Unkown

 

Contact:  Union Cemetery Association - 330-657-2439

 

History:  The cemetery is believed to be located on the site of a Native American burial ground.  The land was donated to the township by George Stanford.  His family arrived in the area in 1806 and had used the land as a family burial site.

 

Families buried here:  Many of the township's first residents are buried here including the families of Stanford, Mills, Jaite and Fayerweather.  Also buried in the cemetery is Jim Brown, a famous counterfeiter in his day.  The township's first doctor, Ebenezer Mather is also bured here.