Cemetery Name

Null

• Clear Creek Chapel Cemetery
• Clear Creek Chapel United Brethren in Christ Cemetery

Township

Status

First Known Burial

General Condition

Tombstone Condition

OGS Cemetery #

Location:

Coordinates:

STR/ VMD

Property Account:

Parcel ID:

Map:

• USGS GNIS - Null Cemetery; FID #1044014
• Google Map
• Warren County Auditor for Property Account # 0522602, Parcel ID 08111000050 (0.306 acres)
• Aerial Image of the cemetery location from Bing Maps
• Range 4 Township 3 Section 11 from Warner's 1867 Warren County Ohio Wall Map. The cemetery location is marked as the U.B. Ch. and surrounded by the 260 acre Jacob Null farm
• US GenWeb Archives: Approximate Location of Stones in Clear Creek Chapel Cemetery, Warren County, Ohio By Ivan and Sue Gilbert (Summer 1985)

Cemetery History

The Null cemetery is located on the grounds of what used to be the Clear Creek United Brethren Church in Christ Chapel located southeast of village of Springboro on Red Lion Road, south of Springboro Road. The exact date the church [or cemetery] was established is not known but is said to be a very early date in the Beers History of Warren County, pages 593-594. About 49 burials in the cemetery are known of dating from the 1823 burial of Adam Blin to the 1894 burial of Henry Bean.

The notable Adam Blin(n), a German citizen, he came to the United States as a "bound boy," and escaped that fate by running away to the Ohio Country. He was among the area's first settlers. Ten members of the Fry family rest here. Revolutionary war veteran Christian Zaring / Zehring is buried here. Christian Null was also buried here until the VFW exhumed and moved his body to the Dayton National Cemetery in 1992 because it needed a Revolutionary War Veteran.   

The cemetery received its name because it was on Null Road, the original name for the road that runs past it. Its relative isolation has made it a frequent target of vandals, and it is slowly deteriorating behind a locked fence.

The Warren County Genealogical Society hosted their annual cemetery restoration clinic in 2012 and repaired 16 of the tombstones. Two "lost" tombstones for Amos Snell and Christena Fry were unearthed, repaired and reset. See the cemetery clinic pictures at the following link. [2012 Null Cemetery Clinic]

Cemetery Transcriptions

• D.A.R. Turtlecreek Chapter & Warren County Historical Society (available at the Historical Society Library)
  • none
• Warren County Genealogical Society
  • Pages 340 - 341 of Warren County Cemetery Records Volume 6 - see online index
  • Our thanks to Warren County Genealogical Society volunteer, Dana Palmer who has photographed all extant gravestones for the "Warren County Virtual Cemetery" Project. All of the photos have been added to this website. These efforts will be incorportated into the new cemetery books planned by the society.
• Other Known Transcriptions
  • Ivan and Sue Gilbert read the cemetery in the summer of 1985 and submitted their transcription of the gravestones found along with a plat showing their approximate location to the Ohio GenWeb Archives as the Clear Creek Chapel Cemetery. Their transcription can be viewed at http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/warren/clearcreek.htm

Gravestone Images

Gravestone photos for the Warren County, Ohio Virtual Cemetery Project are being posted to the Warren County OHGenWeb Project
To view images ===> Null Cemetery
To submit images ==> email to Arne H. Trelvik at atrelvik@gmail.com [please send high resolution digital images if available]