W.P.A. Cemetery Survey - Spindler Cemetery, Mark 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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Spindler Cemetery

1. Name of Cemetery:  The Spindler Cemetery, Mark Township

2. Location, how reached:

In Section 30, Mark Township, one and one half miles south and two miles west of Mark Center, Ohio, and one mile north of the Paulding County Line.  Reached from Mark Center, Ohio, on gravel road leading south of town to second crossroad and turning to the right for two miles more, then left for another quarter mile.

3. Name and address of caretaker:

Mark Township Trustees, for information, see B. F. Spindler, who lives nearby and whose address is R.R. #3, Mark Center, Ohio.

Spindler Cemetery on www.findagrave.com

4. General description, size, appearance, denomination, fencing, etc.:

A very picturesque, rural cemetery, setting in a grove of natural pine trees and beside a little country church.  It is surrounded with an iron ornamental fence and has an iron gate.  It is now undenominational, although at one time, it belonged to the Old Jericho M.E. Church.  It is sometimes called the Jericho Graveyard.  It contains about two acres.

5. Name and date of first burial recorded:

The first burial was that of old James Hobbs, an Englishman born in Cornwall, England, in 1777 and died was buried here in 1854.  Other graves also run back into the fifties.  There is one whole row of pure white slabs, all dates being in the fifties and sixties.

James Hobbs on www.findagrave.com - a replacement stone

Isaac Critchfield on www.findagrave.com

6. Names of important persons buried there, for what noted:

James Hobbs, mentioned above, is probably the most noted person buried here.  He was an old sailor from Cornwall, England who settled here around 1840.

7. Markers of unusual appearance:

Various descriptions from white slabs to stately, heavy granite ones.

8. Unusual epitaphs:  None

9. Is cemetery still used for new burials?

    Yes.

C. Cadwallader and C. Gish, Reporters

Consultants:

H. Rhodes, Mark Center, Confectionary store on state route #18

Mrs. E. Diehl, R.R. #3, Mark Center, 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.)