Hensel Cemetery, Jerome Township, Union County, Ohio

The next cemetery has a sad story to tell.  The Hensel Cemetery, also called the Frankfort Cemetery or the Frankfort Methodist Cemetery, was destroyed in the early 1980s.  When the old Ryan Memorial Special School was razed, all of the debris was bulldozed through the cemetery.  All of the debris was then pushed into the stream that runs along the back of this property.  The WPA documented that the remains of Captain Henry Hensel, a Revolutionary War veteran, were in this graveyard.  What a loss for historians and genealogists alike!  And, what a shame that care was not taken to preserve the final resting place of the pioneers and the veteran interred here.