The OES visited Raver Cemetery on July 30, 2007. Raver Cemetery is located on top of a small hill just north of Waterloo Eastern Road in Violet Township. It can easily be missed if you do not know exactly where the cemetery is as most of the cemetery is not at road level. There were only a few tombstones standing and some of those were illegible, but others were in fair condition. There are likely many unmarked burials as tombstones fell and/or were removed over time. Historical records indicate the earliest known burial took place at Raver Cemetery in 1821 and the last burial was in 1901. There is at least one Civil War veteran buried at the cemetery.
Location Information: Inactive Cemetery [Safe]
Raver Cemetery is located on Waterloo Eastern Road near Canal Winchester; Fairfield County.
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This wood sign marked Raver Cemetery at the top of a will along Waterloo Eastern Road.
There were about twenty standing tombstones in the cemetery.
Some of the older sandstone markers.
The tombstone of Civil War veteran Alexander Cisco, who served a private in the Ohio 15 US Infantry. He died on March 4, 1904.
The tombstone of Maryann Carty, the wife of William. She was born in 1769 and died on August 25, 1845 at 76-years-old.
The tombstones of Frederick and Lucyanna Nicodemus. Frederick was born in 1795 and died May 24, 1865 at 70-years-old. His daughter Lucyanna died in 1836 at two months.
The partial tombstone of Sarah Grubbs. She died on August 11, 1827 at 74-years-old.
The tombstone of Catharine Smith was one of the oldest standing stones. She died on July 20, 1826.
This old sandstone marker was barely legible. It belonged to Anna Raver, who died in in 1835 at 12-years-old.
