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 over 18,000 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: grandparents of 'Buffalo' Bill
Cody, Edward Hoffman who died as a result of the Central Viaduct
Disaster of 1895, Captain John Grady who was a fireman that died as
a result of a fire, some of the children who died as a result of
the 1908 Collinwood School Fire, some of the victims of the
Cleveland Clinic Fire, and lots of others of importance and
interest.