Walking Tour

1904 Wooster Cemetery Map

Earliest Sites in Wooster Cemetery: 

Section 8:

- Lot 900 Hattie D. Miller: Died 6-22-1822

Section 9:

- Lot 161 James Templeton: Died 3-7-1821

- Lot 275 Ann Lake: Died 8-29-1821

- Lot 270 George Wason: Died 7-10-1821

- Lot 242 John Van Nostraum: Died 3-9-1823

- Lot 292 Mary Jacobs: Died 4-15-1831

- Lot 290 William Robison: Died 11-4-1825

- Lot 287 Caroline Avery: Died 7-14-1825

Wooster Cemetery Workers, 1904

Recent People of Interest in Wooster Cemetery:

Section 15:

- Lot 1123 Jonas O. Notestein: One of the College of Wooster’s prominent professors. After his death, his daughter, Lucy Notestein, compiled a book of his notes on the College and published it in 1972.

Section 18:

- Lot 3037 Herman Freedlander: This man was the proprietor of the immensely important Freedlander’s department store.

Section 19: 

- Lot 1323 Benjamin Douglass: This lawyer-turned-author wrote the decisive book on Wooster history (History of Wayne County) in 1870.

Section 26:

- Lot 2089 Charles E. Thorne: This man was the first director of the OARDC

- Lot 2178 Rev. Louis Edward Holden: This Reverend was one of the College of Wooster’s most prominent past presidents. After the main academic building of the school, Old Main, burned down in 1901, he perhaps single handedly assured the rebuilding of the school.

Section 28:

- Lot 2591 Howard Lowry: The College of Wooster president responsible for adding the requirement of Independent Study to the curriculum.

- Lot 2596 Edmund Secrest: Known as “the father of forest conservation in Ohio,” this man was made director of the OARDC in 1937. The beautiful Secrest Arboretum on the OARDC campus is named after him.