Cemetery Name

Shawhan

• Early obituaries refer to this as the Shawhan Cemetery
• The depression era "Veterans Grave Registration Project" by the WPA calls it the Landaker Cemetery from the name of the surrounding property owners
• The USGS Geographic Names Information System uses the name Landaker Cemetery
• We are told that sometimes it is also called the Hill Cemetery but we don't have any sources for that or for the origin of that name

Township

Status

First Known Burial

General Condition

Tombstone Condition

OGS Cemetery #

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Map:

• USGS GNIS National Mapping Information
• TopoZone Map in the Pleasant Plain Quandrangle
• No parcel number assigned in Warren County Records. The cemetery borders on parcels 17053000170, 17053000150 & 17053000040

Cemetery History

In 1871, 93.63 acres were sold in a Sheriff's sale by the heirs of John Shawhan to a William Phillips with the property then changing hands a number of times between 1871 to 1875 passing to Christian B. Odell, Frederick F. Stevens, Wilhelm Adams and finally to Michael Humbert who purchased the property in 1875 and held it until 1896 when the property was sold to Edward F. Fuller in a sheriff's sale.

The next transaction found in the Warren County Recorder's office occurred in 1917 when Lucie L. Clement sold the property to Emanuel Landacre. The deed recorded on page 311 of Deed Book 102 indicates that the sale involved the property of Edward F. Fuller which was devised to his wife, Lucinda S. Fuller & inherited by Lucie L. Clement [wife of John B. Clement], their only child, "excepting therefrom 54/100 acres heretofore sold to Salem Township".

It appears that the grass is being cut but most of the stones are in poor condition. Brush growth on the perimeter has overtaken some of the stones. There are four known military veterans in this cemetery. War of 1812 veteran is William Coddington.  Civil War veterans include: Anson Brace, Francis Brace, and James B. Ireland. 

Cemetery Transcriptions

• D.A.R. Turtlecreek Chapter & Warren County Historical Society (available at the Historical Society Library)
  • Early Vital Records Volume 4 page 61 as the Shawhan Cemetery and containing 16 entries. Seven of those were for Mounts family members who were later removed to the Morrow Cemetery.
  • Early Vital Records Volume 8 page 94 as the Shawhan Cemetery
• Warren County Genealogical Society
  • The Society has an undated transcription of tombstones on file that was prepared by Pam Barricklow, Ruby York and Kathy Black.
  • Cheryl Jordan read and photographed the cemetery in the fall of 2004 and contributed nearly all of the photos on this page. She found all but 3 of the stones identified in previous transcriptions plus added a number of previously unrecorded burials in this cemetery. About the same time Ron Miller unearthed and cleaned many of the stones in the cemetery.
  • The cemetery will be included in new cemetery publications being prepared by the Society.

Gravestone Images

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