The OES visited Lilly-Dyer Cemetery on October 27, 2007. This cemetery is located in an off-limits area of the Battelle Darby Metro Park in southwestern Franklin County. The cemetery sits in a wooded area atop a hill and was in poor condition on our visit, with many of the stones broken or eroded. A representative from the Metro Parks stated that the cemetery had been heavily vandalized prior to the park acquiring the land. The earliest tombstone in the cemetery belongs to Jane Dyer who died on November 18, 1826. The latest burial was Jane Stone (wife of Isaac) who died in 1876. The cemetery was all but abandoned by the early 1900s. Inscription readings written in 1909 reveal that there are at least eleven burials, but there are likely many that are unmarked.

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