Calvary Cemetery
10000 Miles Ave, Cleveland, Ohio, USA (1893-current)
Calvary Cemetery is one of the largest Catholic Cemeteries in the state of Ohio, with well over 290,000 buried there. Established in 1893 on the outskirts of the town and overlapping into Garfield Heights, it continues to serve the Catholic and general community.
Section and Plot Maps
Calvary has 110 sections with often thousands of plots per section. A plot may have 1 to 10 or more graves. Sometimes plots are referred to as lots. Section 1 has the earliest graves of the cemetery. Some sections are special and spanned more years, like section 19 for the unconsecrated babies or section 50 for the row graves during the influenza epidemic.
Insert overall Section Map here. If possible, make it a GIF map with links to the plot maps.
Each section tends to have one or more plot maps. Usually, a plot number is unique to a section. So check when there are multiple plot maps per section how the plot numbers are divided up per map. Multiple maps per section are usually designated as North, South, West, East, Middle or Center with similar variants (NorthEast, for example). Section 50 has parts 1 through 6.
Put plot numbers in bold until replaced by links for maps known to have.
| PLOT MAPS
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| 01 | 02 | 03 | 04: e w | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10
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| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20
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| 21: e w | 22 | 23: n s | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30: ne s w
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| 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40
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| 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47: s n e | 48 | 49 | 50: 1 2 3 4 5 6
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| 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55: e w n | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59: n m s | 60
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| 61: e w | 62: e w | 63: e w | 64 | 65: e w | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70
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| 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77: e m w | 78 | 79 | 80
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| 81: e w | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85: e w | 86 | 87 | 88: e w | 89 | 90
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| 91: s m w | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100
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| 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 |
Check with the office if unsure of the grave section, plot and such. They can also help you find the plot number within the map. Once you find a grave, get an accurate GPS coordinate to help with future re-discovery. If you obtain a plot map not available here, please provide a high-resolution scan to help others that may follow you. Often, one has the memorial / mass card that lists the section and plot number. So stopping by the office may not be necessary if the plot map is here. Or maybe you have more graves to look-up than they can support in the office so having the plot map can help search for more per day than you could otherwise accomplish.
External Links
Calvary Cemetery
Cleveland Catholic Cemeteries
Encyclopedia of Cleveland History entry
Wikipedia entry
Find-a-Grave entry
Interment.com entry