Cemetery Name

Runyan

• Runyon Cemetery
• Warren County, Ohio Property Records list the owner of the parcel as Keller Cemetery. This is not the same as the Carson or Keller Cemetery (aka Armstrong Cemetery or James Hill Cemetery) which also is located in Harlan Township

Township

Status

First Known Burial

General Condition

Tombstone Condition

OGS Cemetery #

Location:

Coordinates:

STR/ VMD

Property Account:

Parcel ID:

Map:

GIS Map of Location      Plat Map      Township Map

• USGS GNIS - Runyan Cemetery; FID #1045261
• Google Map at coordinates 39° 18' 5" N, 84° 05' 18" W
• Warren County Auditor for Property Account # 3912819, Parcel ID 18332870050 which is identified as Keller Cemetery in current Warren County Property Records
• Virginia Military District Survey #980 from Warner's 1867 Warren County Ohio Wall Map - cemetery would have been located on the 88 acre farm of H. Runyan
• Beers History of Warren County, page 681 [see William Runyan family]

Cemetery History

The Runyan Cemetery is an old family cemetery that originally was located on the 88 acre farm of Henry Runyan, son of William Runyan. It is now an overgrown 1/2 acre landlocked parcel surrounded by large home sites and vacant land on the southeast side of the village of Butlerville. The entrance is marked by two very large trees with metal crosses nailed to them. Many stones were broken or falling over when the cemetery was visited in 2009.

There are 27 known burials in this cemetery with surnames of Runyan, Flomerfelt, Hibbetts, Hicks, Morsbach, Brilling, and Hendricks. The earliest known burial in 1842 was Eleanor Jane Runyan, the 12 day old infant of E. L. & C. Runyan. The last known burial was that of Lillian D. Morsbach in 1932. A neighbor said at one time he remembered seeing a pile of gravestones in the cemetery. These were not found in November of 2009.

Cemetery Transcriptions

• D.A.R. Turtlecreek Chapter & Warren County Historical Society (available at the Historical Society Library)
  • Early Vital Records Volume 4, pages 25
  • Early Vital Records Volume 8, pages 43
• Warren County Genealogical Society
  • Not currently included in any of the Cemetery Books. Our thanks to Dana Palmer and Vicki Bergerhouse who photographed all extant gravestones for the "Warren County Virtual Cemetery" Project in November of 2009. All of the photos have been added to this web site. These efforts will be incorporated into the new cemetery books planned by the society. If you have any gravestone photos taken at this cemetery, please consider contributing them to this project.
• Other Known Transcriptions
  • none known of

Gravestone Images

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