East Cleveland Township Cemetery CITO
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Event Date:
Sunday, November 08, 2009
 
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This is an opportunity for us to give back and help clean up
this wonderful cemetery. Through our volunteer efforts, we can help
restore the natural beauty of the outdoor resources here and
together, we can make an enormous impact with just a little effort.
For this CITO, we will be picking up any trash that we find, and
raking leaves, picking up fallen twigs and branches, etc. There
will be about 20 rakes and 4 leaf blowers onsite.
This beautiful old Cemetery is located on East 118th Street in
the midst of a busy urban area of Cleveland, Ohio. For the most
part, the Cemetery is inactive, there are very few new burials. The
Cemetery is now owned and operated by the East Cleveland Township
Cemetery Foundation. The mission of the Foundation is to own and
maintain the East Cleveland Township Cemetery as a historic
landmark, to restore, preserve and share the cemetery’s pioneer
Victorian heritage and to build a solid financial foundation for
the cemetery’s future. As of this date 17,216 people have been
confirmed to be buried in East Cleveland Cemetery. It is believed
there are additional individuals not yet identified.
Some of the more important burials and memorials in the East
Cleveland Township Cemetery include, but are not limited to:
Collinwood School Fire Memoriam where some of the children who died
as a result of the Collinwood School fire of 1908 were buried in
East Cleveland Cemetery.
Veterans of the the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Mexican War,
Civil War, Indian War, Spanish American War, World Wars l and ll,
and the Vietnam War were also buried in East Cleveland Cemetery.
There are approximately 431 veterans of the various conflicts
buried in the Cemetery.
The first C.I.T.O. event here last November was such a huge
success thanks to all the wonderful volunteers who came out to
spend a cold and wet Sunday with us!! After seeing the coating of
leaves on the ground, it was hard to believe there was green grass
under there - - but everyone, and we mean everyone, rolled up their
sleeves, grabbed a rake and a tarp, and did an unbelievable
job!!
Words cannot express enough how impressed we were and how much
we truly appreciated the turn out and all the gracious volunteer
help. The Foundation was absolutely shocked with the amount of
leaves everyone was able to pile and line the cemetery drive. The
look on their faces at the end of the day was, as they say,
priceless.
When:
Sunday, 11/8/2009. Please plan to arrive at 9:00 a.m. so we can
coordinate our efforts. We will start our clean-up efforts at 10:00
a.m. and our efforts will probably be completed around 3:00 p.m.
depending on the number of attendees.
What to bring:
Bring work/latex gloves, grabbers and buckets, if you have them (5
gallon buckets work great for carrying litter)! It is highly
recommended that you wear a long-sleeve shirt and jeans, and a
decent pair of shoes. And as with any event held here in the
Cleveland area, please dress for the weather, as appropriate. For
those of you that have lawn chairs, you may want to bring one with
you, just in case.
What else?
We are planning a pot-luck picnic around noon, so bring a dish to
share. There are tables and electricity inside the heated chapel
for our use and a good functioning restroom available. We will be
providing the hot dogs, buns, and condiments. There will be bottled
water, some soft drinks, hot water for tea and cocoa, and brewed
coffee available.
* * Please post what food item(s) you can bring in your 'will
attend' log. * *
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