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TOLEDO STATE HOSPITAL CEMETERY
   RECLAMATION PROJECT

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Information sources for Toledo State Hospital Cemetery

Findagrave.com – Volunteer genealogical researchers who are working to identify individuals buried in the Toledo State Hospital Cemeteries using public records.

Ohio Historical Society (OHS) – Information from Toledo State Hospital including the Cemetery burial log are available through the OHS.

University of Toledo Canaday Center – list of materials available

BGSU Library – Toledo State Hospital Patient Diary

Related press articles

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Ancestry / Rootsweb article - Richland Co. Persons Admitted to the Toledo Asylum, 1891. From the Richland Shield & Banner

Midwestlost.com - Photos of the State Hospital

Asylum projects - Archive of asylums around the world

Other State Hospital Cemetery websites

Athens State Hospital Ridges Project

Bartonville State Asylum, Peoria

Evansville State Hospital Cemetery

Topeka State Hospital Records

Western State Mental Hospital Cemetery

Danver’s State Memorial Committee

Mental Health Related Sites

Advocating Change Together (ACT) Remembering With Dignity Project

NAMI – The National Alliance on Mental Illness is a nonprofit, grassroots, self-help, support and advocacy organization.

NAMI Toledo.

2008

 

Toledo Free Press, “Canaday Center recognized for exhibit on disability”, Dec 2008.

 

 

Toledo Blade, “Roberta deBoer – Reclaiming burial sites of forgotten” November 18, 2008.

Other press articles

Ohio Department of Mental Health website about state cemetery projects in Ohio

National Empowerment Center, “It’s About Time: Discovering, Recovering and Celebrating Consumer/Survivor History”

Psychiatric News, “Caring for Patients’ Graves Helps Hospitals Reconcile With Living”

2009

 

Toledo Free Press, “Foundation donates to cemetery reclamation project” November 29, 2009.

 

 

 

2010

 

Lunatic Fringe website, May 21, 2010, “State hospital patients honored”

 

Bowling Green Sentinel-Tribune, May 19, 2010, “State hospital cemeteries no longer forgotten”

 

 

 

Toledo Blade, “Graves project seeks dignity for the forgotten” May 5, 2010.

 

New York Times, “Long-Forgotten Reminders of Oregon’s Mentally Ill”

Donald Stierman Presents Ground Penetrating Radar Results to Geological Society of America Conference

Ohio Historical Markers – Online details about the markers at both cemeteries

2011

 

UT News - “Cemeteries on Health Science Campus Restored by Reclamation Committee”. Septemeber8, 2011.

 

.Fox Toledo, 5 pm news, May 22, 2011. “Unknown Veterans Honored at Cemetery.”