Toledo's Forest Cemetery
Click on image above for an enlarged view of the pamphlet's cover About the authors	Features... Large 8” x 11” format 205 pages on acid-free 80# hi-gloss paper Hardcase, stitched binding Color photographs Fully indexed ISBN 978-1-7923-0944-1	Learn about... Toledo's history Early cemeteries Pioneers that shaped the city The oldest burials Medal of Honor recipient's graves Cemetery design and symbology Myths about Forest Cemetery

Toledo's forest cemetery

is a fully-researched, fully-documented story of the founding of Forest Cemetery,

and the many famous, infamous, ordinary, and unknown individuals buried there. 

Content includes:   

• Maps of Port Lawrence, Vistula, and early Toledo

• Land grants, deeds and conveyances that formed the cemetery

• Selected maps of Forest Cemetery

• Biographies, portraits and gravemarker pix of pioneers, first responders, military veterans, businessmen,suffragettes, shipping captains & magnates, bankers, and other notables

• Buffalo Soldier's graves in Forest Cemetery

• History of cemeteries

• Genealogies of the Stickney and Bissell families and their descendants

• Pix of unusual graves

Sample pages: 

• Table of Contents

• 1837 Toledo Map comprising Port Lawrence and Vistula

• Medal of Honor recipient Coxswain William Halstead

• Toledo's Fire Department

• Mayor Emery Davis Potter

• Grave Marker Symbols

Book Pricing:

• $30.00 at local fairs and events or picked up at Gary's home in Perrysburg, Ohio.

• $35.00 mail order (includes bookfold shipping box and USPS "media rate" postage). 

Ordering:

• Contact Gary at engineer9@aol.com to arrange a personal delivery.

       OR

• Please remit your order with payment to:

            Gary L. Franks

            29479 Belmont Lake Road

            Perrysburg, OH 43551

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