Chester Township Cemeteries

Most of the cemetery names and locations were obtained from the results of a federally funded project in the 1930’s, known as the “WPA Veterans Grave Registration Project”. It was conducted in cooperation with the American Legion to identify the names of all veterans of the armed services buried in Morrow County and to locate their graves. A copy of the WPA survey is in the Recorder’s office in the Morrow County Courthouse, Mount Gilead, Ohio. In addition, over the years, volunteers from the Morrow County Genealogical Society have physically walked through every known cemetery area and, in most cases, were able to record the tombstone inscriptions and locations.

  1. Bethel Cemetery
    West of SR314 & North of CR191. About 1.5 miles North of Sparta. No Stones. .93 acre. Listing of burials copied and typed by Betty and Paul Meier, 1993.
  2. Chester Baptist Cemetery
    West of SR314 & North of TR179. About 2.25 miles Southwest of Chesterville. 4.07 acres. Recorded by Betty and Paul Meier, 1993.
  3. Chester Corners Cemetery
    North of Chesterville. Abandoned. No records recorded.
  4. Chesterville M. E. Cemetery
    In Chesterville, East of SR314 and North of SR95, on a hill behind Methodist Church. 1.91 acres. Abandoned. Recorded by Betty and Paul Meier, 1993.
  5. Chesterville Presbyterian Cemetery
    In Chesterville on Southwest corner of SR314 and SR95, just East of intersection. .81 acre. Recorded by Betty and Paul Meier, 1993.
  6. Maple Grove Cemetery
    East edge of Chesterville, on South side of SR95. 21.12 acres. Recorded by Betty and Paul Meier, 1993.
  7. Stilley Cemetery
    SR314 & TR190. Farm in a field East side of TR190. One stone with Stilley on it along fence line of Howard Farm. (As of 1993.)

Chester Township