Cemeteries

The cemeteries and indexes listed on this site are in conjunction with the Wayne County Cemetery Preservation Society (WCCPS).

Please let us introduce ourselves to you. We are a genealogical organization that is working for YOU and anyone who has ancestors from Wayne County. Our name is The Wayne County Cemetery Preservation Society. As our name suggests, one of our main goals is to preserve all the graves and cemeteries of the county, but the reason for our formation and being encompasses much more than “saving cemeteries.”

We have made it our goal to accomplish the following tasks:

• To pinpoint and to record the exact location of every cemetery inside the borders of Wayne County and to make that information available to the public.
 
• To collect and record to the best of our ability the most accurate information that can be obtained from the inscription on every tombstone in the county that is in danger of weathering away or being destroyed.
 
• To photograph and archive pictures of all the cemeteries and threatened tombstones in the county, so that a historic record of our ancestors' headstones will be retained for future generations.
 
• To compile basic genealogical and historic data relating to the persons who are buried in our early cemeteries and of the early churches associated with them.
 
• Finally, to bring to the attention of the appropriate authorities any persons who would cause or aid in the destruction of any of our historic markers or cemeteries.

This Is A Cemetery….

Lives are commemorated, deaths are recorded, families are reunited, memories are made tangible, and love is undisguised. Communities accord respect, families bestow reverence, historians seek information, and our heritage is thereby enriched. Testimonies of devotion, pride and remembrance are carved into stone to pay warm tribute to accomplishments and to the life, not death, of a loved one.

The cemetery is homeland for family memorials that are a sustaining source of comfort to the living. A cemetery is a history of people, a perpetual record of yesterday, and a sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery exists because every life is worth remembering – always.