W. P. A. Cemetery Survey - Lintz Cemetery, Washington Township

In this series, some of the general surveys of Defiance County cemeteries will be shared, transcribed as written on the original W.P.A. reports, with a few punctuation and/or spelling changes for readability.  The surveys were probably done around 1936.

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Lintz Cemetery

1. Name of Cemetery: The Lintz Cemetery, Washington Township

2. Location:

One mile directly west of Ney, Ohio, in section #20, Washington Township.  One half mile south of state route #249, and on the Old Bellefountaine pike, out of Ney.  To reach this place from the main street of Ney, Ohio, which is route #15, turn west on the macadam at the city service gas station and go one mile along an angling road.  The grave yard is to the right of this road going out of Ney.

3. Caretaker: Mr. Geo. Garver, Ney, Ohio and the Washington Twp. Trustees.

Photo from www.findagrave.com

4. Description:

A pretty little graveyard containing about an acre of ground, setting on a hill and fenced in with a good ornamental wire fence.  It is well kept, all but the trees which need trimming and the rotten and dead limbs sawed off.  The grass is kept mowed and the graves and markers are in good shape.  

It is undenominational and was the original Ney graveyard before the one in the village of Ney was taken over by the town.  It gets its name from the people who formerly owned the land on which it stands.  It is quite well known in and around Ney.  The trees are mostly all pine and cedar. 

5. First Burial:

The oldest marked grave is that of William Keller who died in 1849, but I am told there are older graves in the place which are unmarked today.  About 1838 is thedate given as the original plotting of the graveyard. 

6. Important persons:

Charles Gardner at www.findagrave.com

Chas., Henry and John Gardner, three brothers of importance in and around Ney, are the chief persons.  These brothers were well to do farmers and also business men in Ney up to ten years ago.  All three have died in the last ten years at ages in the 80s.

Others are the Thomases and Gollers, important farm people.  This family of Gollers is a distant relative of Merle Goller, prominent attorney of Defiance, Ohio.  The direct descendants of this family still live one mile to the north of this graveyard on route #249.

7. Markers:

There is a unique marker in this graveyard over the grave of Prudence Kimmel.  It is a whole bronze open coffin covering the whole grave, and has flowers planted in the open top.  At the head is a stone rising a foot above this coffin ... grave covering, and on this is her name and birth and death dates.  It is very well kept.

Prudence Kimmel at www.findagrave.com

There are also several very nice, large granite markers here and some very old ones.

8. Epitaphs:  None unique, unusual or original

9. This graveyard is still kept up and used.  Several open lots are still to be had.

Cecil Cadwallader and Chas. Gish

Authority: Mrs. Chas. Walker, Route #1, Ney, Ohio 

(The Works Progress Administration was formed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in reaction to the Great Depression as a means of employing Americans and stimulating the economy.  Established in 1935, one of the projects of the W.P.A. was to conduct Historical Records Surveys, one of which included finding information on cemeteries and the graves of veterans.  The W.P.A. was disbanded in 1943, but the historical information provided on these surveys continue to be of interest and are, thankfully, preserved.)