WCGS-Hill Graveyard Cemetery

Warren County Genealogical Society
Warren County, Ohio
Hill/ Rosebud Acres/ Seyforth Cemetery

This online index is a mix of information compiled by Warren County Genealogical Society from the Warren County Cemetery Book Volume 5, obituary file, and updated information submitted to us by people like you for Hill Graveyard, Hamilton Township. This cemetery is also known by the following names: Rosebud Acres and Seyforth. This online index only lists the individual, death date (if known) and reference page. We are creating a master index of everyone who is buried in this county and their burial location to aid researchers. We are especially in need of people buried here who have no stones or whose stones no longer exist.

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Helpful Information about this cemetery

Cemetery name:

Hill Graveyard

Also known as

Rosebud Acres, Seyforth

Township:

Hamilton

Date Started:

1800

Status:

Inactive

Dimensions:

1.465 acres

Cemetery History:

This cemetery is mentioned in some of the earliest references to burials in Hamilton Twp. Beers History of Warren County says "Hill’s Graveyard, on the hill near the Clermont County line, was used for this purpose as early as 1800, in which year there was buried J. Hill, as shown by the rude headstone". The Beers History also refers to the cemetery in discussions of early settlements and early churches of Hamilton Township.

On the 23rd of May 1842, Philip Hill transferred 1 acre and 33.75 poles of land to the Trustees of the Methodist Epsicopal Church for $1 and the public good for the special purpose of a burying ground and meeting house. The deed is recorded in Warren County Deed Book 25, page 287. The Warren County Auditor lists the property as a 1.465 acre parcel which can be seen in the aerial image obtained from the Warren County GIS Department.

A plat of the cemetery (created by the WPA during the depression) shows 176 plots arranged in a 22 rows containing 8 plots each. The only grave identified on the plat is that of Jno. Simonton, a civil war veteran. Based on where the Jno. Simonton grave is positioned, it would appear that the WPA has the plat upside down.

Directions:

The Hill Graveyard is an inactive, overgrown cemetery located in a wooded area on the north side of ravine located west of Schlottman Road and east of Baxter Road, very close to the Warren - Clermont County line [N39° 16' 28", W84° 14' 04"]. It is located in Virginia Military Survey #2192. At one time, Baxter Road extended eastward to Schlottman Road (formerly called Williamsburg Pike) and provided access to the cemetery. That eastern part of Baxter road was abandoned sometime after 1903, causing the cemetery to become landlocked.

Cemetery transcriptions:

	D.A.R. TURTLECREEK CHAPTER: Early Vital Records, Volume 4, page 16, available at the Warren County Historical Society lists 26 burials for deaths from 1841 to 1890 for the cemetery under the name "Rosebud Acres"
	Page 702 in Volume 2 of GATEWAY TO THE WEST [Greeneville, OH: Anita Short & Dale Bowers, 1978] has an undated transcription (by Mrs. Gordon M. Hower) which records 30 burials for deaths from 1813 to 1890.
	About 1999, Jim and Mary Baldwin who live nearby, read the cemetery and recorded 20 burials, one of which was not in either of the above listings.
	On 19 Aug 2000, a group visited the cemetery in conjunction with a reunion of the descendants of Adam Simonton of Ohio and found all of the Simonton tombstones noted in previous readings of the cemetery.
	On 3 July 2003, Kim Wilmes, Chuck Griffin and Arne Trelvik visited the cemetery on behalf of the Warren County Genealogical Society and found the gravestones listed below. The cemetery is overgrown and most of the stones are now lying on the ground. The ground was not probed and the steep slope down to the bottom of the ravine was not checked for additional stones. In addition to the stones shown below, 3 other stones were found which were no longer legible. The information is being added to the next printing of Warren County Cemetery Records Volume 5, Hamilton Twp Cemeteries.

Tombstone Images:

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Surname	Given Name	Death	Cemetery	Vol	Page
CLINTON	Elizabeth	1858	Hill Graveyard	5	77
CLINTON	Elizabeth		Hill Graveyard	5	78
CLINTON	Ellen	1882	Hill Graveyard	5	77
CLINTON	Isaac		Hill Graveyard	5	78
CLINTON	James	1890	Hill Graveyard	5	78
CLINTON	Joseph	1878	Hill Graveyard	5	77
CLINTON	Mattie	1865	Hill Graveyard	5	77
CLINTON	Rachel	1846	Hill Graveyard	5	77

Surname	Given Name	Death	Cemetery	Vol	Page
DONNELS	Mary	1847	Hill Graveyard	5	77
DONNELS	Mary		Hill Graveyard	5	77

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Surname	Given Name	Death	Cemetery	Vol	Page
GIRTON	___	1855	Hill Graveyard	5	77

Surname	Given Name	Death	Cemetery	Vol	Page
HENRY	James D.	1875	Hill Graveyard	5	78
HENRY	Lucinda	1873	Hill Graveyard	5	78
HENRY	Sarah Jane	1861	Hill Graveyard	5	77
HILL	Amelia	1854	Hill Graveyard	5	78
HILL	Annabelle	1859	Hill Graveyard	5	78
HILL	Benjamin	1841	Hill Graveyard	5	78
HILL	Elizabeth	1851	Hill Graveyard	5	78
HILL	Elizabeth		Hill Graveyard	5	78
HILL	James	1863	Hill Graveyard	5	78
HILL	Julia Ann	1855	Hill Graveyard	5	78
HILL	Phillip	1848	Hill Graveyard	5	78
HILL	William	1878	Hill Graveyard	5	78
HILL	___		Hill Graveyard	5	78

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Surname	Given Name	Death	Cemetery	Vol	Page
RAMSEY	Mary E.	1852	Hill Graveyard	5	78

Surname	Given Name	Death	Cemetery	Vol	Page
SIMONTON	Alonzo L.	1869	Hill Graveyard	5	78
SIMONTON	Ellen	1848	Hill Graveyard	5	78
SIMONTON	infant	1842	Hill Graveyard	5	78
SIMONTON	Jno.		Hill Graveyard	5	78
SIMONTON	Mary	1867	Hill Graveyard	5	78
SIMONTON	Peggy	1845	Hill Graveyard	5	78
SIMONTON	Thirza	1864	Hill Graveyard	5	78

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