Washington County Chapter
Ohio Genealogical Society
PO Box 2174
Marietta, OH 45750-7174
www.WashOGS.org
Projects
In
2006 our Washington County OGS chapter and our local DAR chapter digitized the Veterans' Grave Registraton cards in the
Washington County Recorder's Office.
In
2006 our Washington County OGS chapter and our local DAR chapter digitized the late Jerry B. Devol's collection of more than
4,000 Washington County Civil War veterans, with military and family
information.
In 2007 this Web site came online.
In 2007 the Washington County OGS chapter co-sponsored a history book of Newport, Washington County, Ohio.
In
2008 the Washington County Chapter is working with the Marietta SAR
(Sons of the American Revolution) and other local historical, and
patriotic societies on a 12-day Patriots and Pioneers conference with a
seminar on 29 Mar 2008.
In
2008 the Washington County Chapter will be working with the Marietta
City Cemetery Department, the Washington County Public LIbrary, and the
local DAR chapter to digitally preserve the records of Oak Grove,
Harmar, and Mound Cemeteries in Marietta.
In
2008 the Washington County Chapter will be setting a "found"
gravestone of David Taylor, Revolutionary War veteran, an ancestor of
one of our members, Lillian Emerick, in Rake Cemetery, the cemetery of
many of her ancestors. This gravestone was "rescued" from
alongside a road by Millie Covey Fry.
Do you have a project that you want to work on or a potential project that you want to share with us? Let us know.
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