Potters Field in Cleveland, Ohio - Find a Grave Cemetery

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Get directions South Green Road
Cleveland, Ohio 44122 United States

Coordinates: 41.45319, -81.51724
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The cemetery is located on the west side of South Green Road north of Harvard Road. The entrance drive to the cemetery is off South Green Road about 800 feet north of its intersection with Harvard Road. A memorial rock with the inscription "Peace I leave with you. My peace I give unto you. Do not let your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid" is located down the driveway. The cemetery was established in 1904 and is 15 acres in size. This cemetery is Cleveland's cemetery for the burial of the indigent and those whose bodies were unclaimed. There are four sections of grassy area separated by walls of trees. The burials were originally marked with numbered, wooden stakes, almost all of which are gone.
The cemetery is located in city of Highland Hills, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and is # 15561 (Cleveland Memorial Park / Potters Field) in "Ohio Cemeteries 1803-2003", compiled by the Ohio Genealogical Society.

The cemetery is registered with the Ohio Division of Real Estate and Professional Licensing (ODRE) as the Memorial Park (Potter's Field) with registration license number CGR.2002012384.

As many as 18000 unmarked burials have taken place here during the period 1910-2015, the vast majority of which are unmarked. Individual graves may contain as many as 4 burials, most placed only in fiberboard boxes, and unmarked save for a wooden stake showing the infirmary number for that death. There are very few stakes remaining; essentially all the graves are unmarked. Records list the section # as 300 for all burials; further location information includes lot/tier/grave numbers, but the cemetery has no map or lot markings to aid in locating the burial site for a specific individual.

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