Woodlawn Cemetery - Lima Ohio

10/27/2025

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The Lima Kiwanis Club’s annual Howl’oween Trick or Trot brought runners, costumes, and community spirit together to raise funds for local student programs and scholarships.

10/23/2025

James E. Grosjean was a colorful resident of Lima. He had many talents. Grosjean was a funeral director, taxidermist, woodcarver, owner of a shoe store, inventor of cord soles and heels which he also manufactured, and creator of "Noah's Ark" and other unique bird and animal exhibits at the Allen County Museum and Historical Society. His daughter Pearl married oil man Frank Maire. Both Mr. Grosjean and Mr. Maire died in 1938 and were entombed in this mausoleum, which serves both the Grosjean and Maire families.

10/16/2025

Branson P. Holmes, Sr. was the founder of a much-honored Lima family. He died in 1870 and was first buried at the Old Lima Cemetery. Later, his remains, along with his conventional obelisk marker, were removed to the present Holmes plot. Here, too, we find the graves of his grandson, (Branson) Harley Holmes, an attorney licensed to practice in New York and Ohio, and perhaps better known as a musician. Harley was a violinist with the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra and a local violin instructor as well. Harley's wife, Helen Hope (Burton) Holmes, was also well known on the musical scene and was a colorful figure. He died in 1977 and she in 1976.

10/02/2025

The Cory family interests were in real estate and the Metropolitan Bank (when it was the Metropolitan Block on the corner of Main and North Streets), although when they first came to town, their connections were railroading, as master mechanics, and with the Solar Refinery. Charles H. Cory had been a machinist (d. 1928), and his wife was Mary (Young) Cory. Their family plot is in the older portion of Woodlawn Cemetery. Their children: Charles H., Jr., Lewis, Fred, and James M., and wives rest there with them, along with James' son, Frank L. His other son, Charles H. (d 1976) lies in the old mausoleum with his uncle and aunt.

09/25/2025

The Mackenzie family was associated traditionally with law, real estate and banking. William Holmes Mackenzie was one of the younger members of the family. At his untimely death in 1932, a classical mausoleum was built to contain the crypts for members of the family, which would include himself, wife Edith (Finley) and members of the family of his daughter, Mary F., who married Judson R. Edwards in 1945. The earlier generations of the Mackenzie family are buried elsewhere in Woodlawn Cemetery.

09/18/2025

Edwin W. Cook founded the Globe Machine Co., later know as the Globe Cigar Box Co., located on S. Main St. immediately north of the river, in 1879. His mausoleum was built on his death in 1928, and various members of his family rest there. His son, Fred W. Cook, died in 1968, and will be remembered for purchasing the Old National City Bank on W. High St., changing the name to Cook Tower, and then attempting to donate it to the City of Lima as a new city building. It then housed Chase Bank.

09/11/2025

The C**t family were farmers in Erie County, PA before coming to Lima, where they were active in the gas and oil wells in this area and in Kansas. Brothers Burt H. C**t died in 1916, and Mack P. C**t was buried here in 1948. A dignified memorial stone marks their family plot.

09/11/2025

09/05/2025

This is a fascinating photo of Woodlawn Cemetery in 1955. Thanks for sharing, Allen County Museum and Historical Society!

This week’s features an aerial shot of the water treatment plant and Woodlawn Cemetery in 1955.

09/04/2025

William H. Glover's memorial was completed in 1912 in the classical style prevalent at that time to house the remains of his wife, Currence A. (Winters) Glover, who died the previous year. Mr. Glover, a Canadian, was founder of Glover & Winters Millinery. He died in 1917 and the store ceased operations shortly after that time. The couple had no children.

08/21/2025

The Wohlgemuth-Erlanger-Simmons Mausoleum was built for those intertwined families. Jonas Wohlgemuth took over the Feldman's ready-to-wear department store from his brother Bert in 1909. Jonas' first wife passed away in 1913, and his brother in 1916. He then married Lenora (Hershberg), who had three sisters surviving: Minnie Simmons, Bertha Simon, and Rose Erlanger. The mausoleum was erected by Jonas in 1927. Minnie's husband, Samuel Simmons, was the first to die in 1935, then Rose's husband, Wm. B. Erlanger in 1938. Lenore died in 1941, and not too long afterward, Jonas married the widowed Rose. Jonas lived until 1954 and his wife Rose died in 1961. Her sister, Minnie Simmons, had died in 1957. Rose and her first husband had a son, Robert Erlanger, who died in 1967 and his here as well, with his wife Rose. The Hershberg mother, brothers, and remaining sister Bertha are nearby, as are Jonas' first wife, brother, and his family. Mr. Hershberg was buried in Piqua.

07/31/2025

J.D.S. Neely was one of the Pennsylvania oil men who came to drill for Lima's oil in 1885 and stayed on. He built the mansion at 620 W. Spring Street which much later became the Senior Citizens' Center. He was also president of the Lima Trust Co. in 1911. While on business in Oklahoma, he was shot and killed. An impressive granite monument marks his grave and that of his wife, Elizabeth (Yingling) Neely.