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Painesville Cemetery
Tombstone Photos


These photos were generously taken and contributed to these pages by Larry & Linda Kopet!   Please take a moment to thank them for this terrific resource!  Use your back browser button to return to this page. Please note that these generous contributions do not necessarily depict all tombstone photographs for a given cemetery.


Ashley, James W. and Lillian
Baum, Catherine
Baum, Fred W.
Baum, George
Blaschke, Fred Fredrick and Alma Seymer
Boetsch, Louise Hahn
Bosecker, Carl
Brunn, Theodore and family
Burkhardt, Ida Goetsch
Davitz, Harvey A. and Margaret L.
Dietz, unclear
Dittmar, Christine M.
Dittmar, Edward and Christiana
Dittmar, Elizabeth E.
Dittmar, Henry and Eliza
Fink, Elizabeth Decker
Fink, Jacob and Dorothea
Fink, Jacob
Fink, Johannese and Catharina
Fink, Theresa
Franke, Johann and Anna
Franke, unclear and J.F.
Geezy, Jacob
Giesie, Elizabeth
Giesie, Maria
Giesie, Samuel
Goetsch, Gustav
Goetsch, Leo
Griese, Amalia
Griese, Christoph
Griese, Herman
Griese, William and Anna
Groth, Marvin Daniel and Marvel Jeanne
Guenther, Charles
Guenther, Martha
Guinther, J.G.
Gunther, Wilhelm and unclear
Guth, John D. and Mary
Hahn, Karolien
Hahn, Magdalena
Halter, Albert N. and female infant
Halter, Louis and family
Halter, Louis and Mary K. Kunzlmann
Halter, William and Elizabeth Kling
Heim, John M.
Hinz, Ginger Lee
Honadel, Henry and Magdalena
Honadel, Isabella
Honadel, John George and family
Immisch, father and mother
Jacob, Michael
Jordan, Melvin
Kister, Georg
Kling, Elisabeth
Kling, George
Kling, Jacob
Kling, Mary
Knoell, Philippine
Knoell, Valentine
Kunzelmann, Catharine
Loth, Edwin
Loth, Gottfried
Loth, Wilhelmine
Lueder, Mary and Heidtke, Caroline
Mahr, Frederic and Aurelia
Mahr, Wilhelm and Barbara
Mayer, infant
Meyer, Caroline
Meyer, Edward
Meyer, Fred C. and Selma A.
Meyer, Fred C.
Meyer, Joseph and Anna
Meyer, Joseph
Meyer, Robert
Meyer, Selma A.
Meyer, William
Painesville Chapel Cemetery Sign,  
Rodel, Hartman
Saloma, George and family
Schroeter, Christian and Emma
Seymer, A.
Seymer, Ado.
Seymer, Adolph
Seymer, Albert
Seymer, Alvina
Seymer, Fred W.
Seymer, Henry C.
Seymer, Henry
Seymer, Lebertha
Seymer, Mamie
Seymer, Mary Baum
Seymer, Wm.
Siering, Robert W.
Stephan, Magdalena
Stephan, William
Strohm, Amy Henrietta and Carrie A.
Toepelt, Sophie
Trieschmann, Conrad
Vorherr, Balthasar
Vorherr, Katharina
Wegner, Gerald A. and Leona M.
Wegner, Otto P.E. and Bertha B.
Zimmer, Henry and Amelia Griese
Zimmer, Henry and Anna Maria
Zimmer, Herman and Mathilde
Zimmermann, unclear

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WISCONSIN MUNICIPALITIES: Cities Towns, and Villages, often referred to as 'municipalities' in Wisconsin law, are the governmental units that relate most directly to citizens' everyday lives.

TOWNS, like counties, were created by the state to provide basic municipal services. Rooted in New England and New York tradition, town government came to Wisconsin with the settlers, but Wisconsin towns were not like their Eastern counterparts that reflected the existing patterns of local settlement. In Wisconsin, towns are geographical subdivisions of counties. Towns originally served (and for the most part they continue to serve) rural areas. Towns govern those areas of Wisconsin not included in the corporate boundaries of cities and villages.

The difference between "township" and "town" often confuses the public. In Wisconsin, "township' refers to the surveyor's township which was laid out to identify land parcels within a county. Theoretically. a township is a square tract of land, measuring six miles on a side for a total of 36 square miles in the unit. Each township is divided into 36 sections. "Town", as the word is used in Wisconsin, denotes a specific unit of government. It's boundaries may coincide with the surveyor's township or it may look quite different. A Town may include one, parts of or several townships.

CITIES and VILLAGES, often referred to as "incorportated areas", govern territory where population is more concentrated. In general, minimum population for incorporation as a village is 150 residents for an isolated village and 2,500 for a metropolitan village located in a more densely settled area. For cities, the minimums are 1,000 and 5,000 respectively. As cities and villages are incorporated, they are carved out of the town territory and become independent units no longer subject to the town's control. The remainder of the town may take on a 'Swiss cheese" configuration as its area is reduced.

[Information above taken from "State of Wisconsin Blue Book 1997-1998"]

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ProjectCopyright Notice: These generous contributions do not necessarily depict all tombstone photographs for a given cemetery. The source for many of the cemetery names and placenames on these pages come from Cemetery Locations in Wisconsin, 3rd edition, compiled by Linda M. Herrick and Wendy K. Uncapher. The book is published by Origins at 4327 Milton Ave. Janesville, WI 53546. All files on this site are copyrighted by their creator and/or contributor. They may be linked to but may not be reproduced on another site without specific permission from Tina Vickery [mailto:tsvickery@gmail.com] and/or their contributor. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which they are presented, the notes and comments, etc., are. It is however, quite permissable to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use ONLY.

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