CUYAHOGA COUNTY OHIO - West Cemetery (City of Independence)
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Name: West Cemetery

Location:  City of Independence, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio. On Rockside Place Rd. This road 
runs North off of Rockside Rd. and is adjacent to I77.  This is the access road to the 
Holiday Inn, Chi Chi's and Reality One Headquarters.  The cemetery is immediately behind 
Chi Chi's parking lot.  This is an abandoned plot that was on the original West farm.

Inscriptions copied: 1992-1997 by W.R. Wetsel.  This cemetery  tombstone inscriptions 
were also copied by  Richard Sicha in 1973.  His data can be found at the Western Reserve 
Historical Society Library in Cleveland, Ohio.  Comparing his notes to mine the 
gravestones are slowly disappearing.


Enos West
d. July 14, 1869
ae. 77 _ ms. 3 d
1850 Ohio Census Pb. NH ae. 30 in 1850.
1992 flowers by the gravestone and a note "From Terri"


Manda L.
daughter of Jacob + Delilliah Gillett
d. Sept. 11, 1887
ae. 2Y 2M 26D


Susan 
wife of Thomas West
Sept. 29, 1798 - Jan. 23, 1873
1850 Ohio Census ae. 53 in 1850.


Thomas West
d. May 7, 1860
ae. 66Y
1850 Ohio Census gives Pb. VA

broken stone illegible
__ als Engel ands lelin nd uns dam nie leaselm lerselm (difficults to read)`
Jun. 27, 1850
epitath  in German


Mary J. 
illegible


John
son of T + S West
d. Mar. 11, 1853
ae. 9Y 3D

several small stones in the dry creek that may have been gravestones. 

1850 & 60 Ohio Census (estimated Db. Based on age).

Enos West 1820
Pricilla  1822
1. Minnie  1843
2. Martha  1846
3. Charles  1848
4. George  1851 wf. Mary
5. Aaron 1856  
6. Henry

Thomas West 1796 VA
Susan 1798 PA
1. Delilah
2. Ephriam wf. Almelia
3. Aaron wf. Emily
4. Thomas 1838
5. Maria 1840
6. John ? 1843

As I copied in 1992 W. Wetsel

John S/O West  Dd. 11 Mar. 1853

_______ 27 Ju_ 1850 ___als engel ---slelin

Can't read very old stone?

Thomas West  Dd. 7 May 1860

Susan W/O Thomas West  29 Sep. 1798 - 23 Jan. 1872

Enos West  Dd. 11 Jun. 1869 aged ____
flowers by grave with a note. To Enos from Terri.
The last three graves were in a line next to each other. Different types of stones.

Only four stones in remain 1997.