It’s Halloween: what better time to remember potentially haunted graveyards?

–The News Team

October 31, 1997

Cemeteries in Lorain County date back before the 1850s. In the subsequent 150 years, graves and entire cemeteries have been moved and mauled…

Clerk of Greenwood Cemetery in Wellington Bill Misch talked about the people buried in his cemetery. “They’re perfectly content here. We have no spooks roaming around here,” he said.

“Greenwood is considered a new cemetery; the oldest grave is from 1861,” Linda Navarre of the cemetery said.

“There is a lot of neat stuff down here,” Navarre said.

One frustrated poet left his mark in stone with his epitaph reading as a poem about how nobody ever appreciated his poetry.

Stories abound around the cemetery. Navarre told the story of a woman who had found a ring with a note attached that her husband had owned. “A lady came up to me a week before Memorial Day a couple of years ago. She had been referred to me, and she reaches in her pocket and pulls out a jewelry box. She asked me if I could explain how this ring came into her husband’s possession.”

Navarre told the woman that in 1850, a woman died and was buried with this ring. It remained buried with her until the grave was moved from the West Teherrick Cemetery in the 1880s.

“It was a beautiful ring. It was her wedding ring,” Navarre said.

“Oh, I think there are spirits, yes. But we don’t seem to have anybody doing anything at the cemetery. They probably all went home.”