Zeiters' Cemetery P

Alternate Names:  Ocker Farm Cemetery, Zider / Zeiders Cemetery

Township / Section:  Franklin Twp.

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Location Description:  On the south side of Co. Rd. 90 (Sheets Drive), west of Hoff Drive -- north of Mansfield Lahm Airport.

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Photographs courtesy of Sandy, including a picture of some wild turkeys that were visiting the cemetery that day

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Other Information ...

• Zeiters Cemetery Records (external link)

"Franklin Twp. residents have always been a church-going people.  Before churches were built, religious meetings were held in the log school houses and the cabin homes of the early settlers.  In time churches were built, one of the first being Zeiters' on the old State Road, four miles north of Mansfield.  The land upon which this church was built was donated by John Zeiters, and the deed is dated Dec. 30, 1834, and the building was locally known as "Zeiters' church".  It was used by the Lutherans and the Reformed congregations.  There is a cemetery on the church ground and the first interment was that of Henry Wainbranner, who died in 1833.  

The following are the names of some of the first members of this church:  Jacob Kunkleman, Abraham Harnaker, John Zeiters, Jr., J. Henry, Samuel Saltzgaber, John Stouzenberg, Jacob Zeiters, Jacob Clein, J.W. Sturgeon, Elias Keller, Jacob Heck, George Thorne, Jacob Fisher, John Kendall, William Wolf, Daniel Wolf, Peter Goldman, John Blecker, George Wolford, John Zeiters, Sr., Joel Keller, William Cloud, George Cassell, Thomas Russell and Jacob Bringman.  The church was a log building, which was afterwards supplanted by a brick structure.  And a few years ago this latter was taken down, and Zeiters' church is no more."  [Bellville Messenger:  26 March 1903, Vol. 11, No. 12]

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&	* A listing of persons buried in this cemetery can be found in the Richland County Cemetery Records book published in 1981 by the Richland County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society.  Copies of this book can be found at the OGS Library (Mansfield) and the Sherman Room at the Mansfield/Richland County Public Library (Mansfield).

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