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Linn sent me the following e-mail about the Lagrange Cemetery:

The Lagrange Cemetery, on West Street at the intersection with West Main (303), right across from Veterans Park and the Keystone branch of Elyria Public Libraries.

Lagrange Cemetery is in the village of Lagrange, taken care of by Lagrange Township. It's well tended, and it's still in current use. There is plenty of on pavement parking. The Keystone branch of the Elyria Public Library System is across West Street from the cemetery; adjacent to the library is a ballfield and a Porta Potty. Landmark to find it easy is the Veterans Park, between the library and the state route.

There is one mausoleum -- cut sandstone, quite old, with a new modern aluminum roof and downspout. I thought it interesting that the mausoleum has a stone ramp, gutter-cut down its middle, as if to conduct liquid out of the mausoleum itself.

The oldest stones are from the earlier 1800s, and there are several stones of Civil War veterans, and a delightful number of zinc markers. I was struck by several things: the number of markers with multiple inscriptions -- on an obelisk it will have names, sometimes multiple names, on all four sides; several stones say simply "Mother" or "Father" or "Daughter"... and I was struck by the youth of so many of the deceased from that early era.

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