Welcome to the Toledo State Hospital Cemeteries (1888-1973)

Grave marker 1404

For 85 years,Toledo State Hospital patients who died and were not claimed for burial elsewhere were buried in two cemeteries on the hospital grounds. They were forgotten in life and are now forgotten in death.

1,994 people in two quiet cemeteries…without signs, without even proper headstones to identify the deceased…are now surrounded by a busy community that has long forgotten them and passed them by.

The Toledo State Hospital Cemetery Reclamation Committee (TSHCRC) is working in cooperation with the University of Toledo, who now owns both properties, to restore the cemeteries and proclaim the honor due the people buried there.

Photo: Toledo State Hospital Cemetery (markers buried covered with soil after years of neglect)

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