W. P. A. Cemetery Surveys - Saint Mark's Cemetery of Adams 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.

For more up to date information on the cemeteries, check out this chart on our website:
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Saint Mark's Cemetery of Adams Township

1. Name of cemetery: Saint Mark's Cemetery of Adams Township

2. Location, how reached: 

It is located in the northwest corner of Adams Township in Defiance County, twelve miles north and two miles east of the City of Defiance, Ohio, and can be reached by taking route #66 north for twelve miles and then two miles east.  it is located and to the west of the St. Mark's Evangelical German Lutheran Church.

3. Name and address of caretaker:

This cemetery is cared for by different members of the congregation of the St. Mark's German Lutheran Church.

www.findagrave.com

 4. General description, size, etc.

This graveyard is one of the more recent ones in Defiance County.  It is fenced in all around and is in the church yard of St. Mark's.  It has several large brown and gray tombstones and each lot is built up and terraced and kept in perfect shape.  A few large trees are scattered over its grounds and many small evergreen shrubs.  It is of German Lutheran denomination.

5. Name and date of first burial recorded:

Rev. Marte Arps, 1881.

Maria Arps at www.findagrave.com

 (Could not locate Rev. Arps' stone.)

6. Names of important persons buried here, for what each was noted:

Rev. Marte Arps, former pastor, St. Mark's German Lutheran Church

7. Markers of unusual appearance:  None

8 Unusual epitaphs:  None

9. Is cemetery used for new burials?  Yes.

C. Cadwallader and C. Gish, Reporters

Consultant: Rev. Geo Kaiser, R. R. #2, Defiance, 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.)