This cemetery was once known as Hall Cemetery (and, Columbia Rd. was once Hall Road), named for one of Westlake's founding families. Many members of the Hall family are buried here:
-In 1811 brothers James and Barnabas Hall and Barnabas’s wife Hannah were among the first residents of the part of Dover that would later become Westlake.
James Hall settled on Detroit Road near the Avon line, while Barnabas and Hannah Hall settled where West Bay plaza is currently located.
-Charles Hall and his wife Lucy moved from Ashtabula, Ohio, to Dover in 1821 and built a home about 1834 that still stands on the northwest corner of Columbia and Westwood roads.
-Reuben Hall, born in 1821 in Dover, was an early historian of Dover and wrote a book about the first 100 years of Dover.
In 2000, the Cuyahoga West Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society undertook the time-consuming historical project of "reading" the Maple Ridge Cemetery, researching and documenting all the persons buried here. Their complete index of names can be found online, at
www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohcwogs/MapleRidgeTotalScan.pdf