Cemeteries
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West Lawn Cemetery
west lawn cemetery
Beautiful West Lawn Cemetery is located at:
3991 ST. RT. OH 82
Mantua, Ohio 44255
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West Lawn Cemetery was established in the mid‑1800s, during a period when Mantua Township was expanding beyond its early pioneer settlement. As the small early burial grounds—such as Pioneer Cemetery and the original East Lawn section—began to fill, the township created West Lawn to provide a larger, more organized cemetery with room for future generations.
Many of the burials here date from the 1850s through the early 1900s, representing the second and third generations of Mantua’s founding families. The cemetery includes veterans of the Civil War, Spanish‑American War, and World War I, along with farmers, merchants, and civic leaders who contributed to the township’s growth.
Common surnames found in West Lawn include Loomis, King, Reed, Lanning, Moore, Sanford, Stitt, and other long‑established Mantua families.
East Lawn Cemetery
Historic East Lawn Cemetery
The Historic East Lawn Cemetery is located at
11570 Mantua Center Road
Mantua, Ohio 44255
East Lawn Cemetery was established about 1816 as the first formal burial ground for the early settlers of Mantua Center in the Connecticut Western Reserve. It sits at the heart of the historic district, bordered by an 1835 stone wall, and contains the graves of many founding families and early American veterans. Its layout, markers, and surrounding buildings preserve the original 19th‑century New England–style village character of Mantua Center.
Pioneer Cemetery
historic pioneer cemetery
Pioneer Cemetery is one of Mantua Township’s oldest burial grounds and a tangible link to the township’s earliest settlers in the Connecticut Western Reserve. This small, historic cemetery reflects the hardships, faith, and community life of the families who first cleared and farmed this land in the early 1800s. Thus, an American Pioneer-period cemetery reflects the obscurity and lack of information from that time period.
The Pioneer Cemetery, located at the intersection of Pioneer Trail and Mantua Center Road, Mantua, OH 44255,
The East Lawn Cemetery was established, according to Orrin Harmon’s Historical Manuscript of the Western Reserve (1798 to 1866), when “Melissa Reed, a girl of about 7 years of age, was the first who was buried there in 1816.” The East Lawn Cemetery is located within the Historic Mantua Center District.
Mantua Township Cemeteries include many graves of veterans from the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Civil War, WW1, WW2, Korea, Viet Nam, and Afghanistan. Also included are scores of settlers who arrived to the Western Reserve and established Mantua Township Ohio in 1799.