A Visit to the Historic Green Lawn Cemetery - December 23, 2009

Today the Marine went off with his Dad for a full day of poker with his Dad's buddies.  With some time on my hands, I (the Biologist) decided to head to the nearby historic Green Lawn Cemetery to do a little waymarking.  It was a cold day with some snow on the ground,  The first thing I saw upon entering the cemetery was an Ohio Historical Marker.

The historical marker provides the following information:

SIDE 1: Landscape architect Howard Daniels designed the original portion of Green Lawn Cemetery in 1848. Noted Columbus architect Frank Packard designed Green Lawn's Chapel mausoleum, the Hayden family mausoleum, and the Packard mausoleum. Spanning over 360 acres, the cemetery's wooded setting provides a habitat for a variety of birds and other wildlife. The Chapel contains stunning stained glass windows and mosaic artwork by Tiffany & Company of New York. The monuments, obelisks, and memorials throughout the cemetery represent a wealth of artwork and a history of Columbus. As one of the oldest and largest cemeteries in Ohio, Green Lawn is the resting-place of many noted individuals who have made significant contributions to Columbus, Franklin County and the nation.

SIDE 2: Interments here include: Gordon Battelle - founder of Battelle Memorial Institute, a center for creative research and invention development; Samuel Bush - president of Buckeye Steel Castings and grandfather and great grandfather of United States Presidents George Bush and George W. Bush; Dr. Lincoln Goodale - first physician to practice in Franklinton, now Columbus; P. W. Huntington - founder of Huntington National Bank in Columbus in 1866 and member of Green Lawn's Board of Trustees for over forty years; Simon Lazarus - began Lazarus department stores in 1851; James Poindexter - barber, minister, conductor on the Underground Railroad, and first African American to be elected to Columbus City Council; James Rhodes - the longest serving governor of Ohio; Eddie Rickenbacker - famed racecar driver and World War I flying ace; Lucas Sullivant - surveyor and planner of the city of Franklinton in 1797; James Thurber - twentieth century humorist author and cartoonist; and honored veterans of every war since the Civil War.

Below are a few of the places I visited or waymarked while here:

The Grave of a Famous Person (Eddie Rickenbacker)












Three Zinc Headstones

Two Broken Column Headstones

Four Woodmen of the World Headstones (3 shown below)

Five Mausoleums (3 shown below)

An Odd Fellow Memorial

Bas Relief Art on a Bronze Sarcophagus

An American Civil War Monument