Take a stroll through Massillon Cemetery at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 2, to learn about the history of the community. Memorial Day flowers and flags will enhance the gentle wooded hills of the cemetery, which was designed during the 1840s. Massillon Cemetery is located at 1827 South Erie Street in Massillon, just south of the Oberlin Road exit from Ohio Route 21. Participants should meet at the cemetery entrance. Cemetery parking is limited, but ample free parking is available on both sides of South Erie Street. Reservations are not necessary; the $5 fee may be paid at the begin...
Take a leisurely stroll through Massillon Cemetery at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 19, to learn about the history of the community and some of the influential people buried there. On this first-time tour, local historian Margy Vogt will lead visitors around the perimeter of the grounds to see the exteriors of mausoleums. She will tell about the prominent families buried in the beautiful vaults. Among the notable people will be women’s rights leader Caroline McCullough Everhard; industrialists J.F. Hess and F.H. Snyder; Congressman John G. Warwick; iron and coal magnate J.P. Burton; Albert...
