Lake Shore Cemetery of Avon Lake (Images of America)

Lake Shore Cemetery evolved as a burial ground of necessity rather than intention. The cemetery's first interments were French fur trappers and Native Americans but as migrating settlers began populating Lake Erie's shore and a community emerged the need for a recognized burial site arose. The diminutive graveyard also known as Avon Lake Cemetery claims less than one-third of an acre abutting the shoreline cliff. It holds the remains of a Revolutionary War soldier sailors wounded in the Battle of Put-in-Bay during the War of 1812 Civil War and World War I soldiers and a World War II Flying Tigers crewman. Within this cemetery pillars of the community and successful farmers share sod with a court-adjudicated drunkard an alleged lunatic and several who spent their last days in the county's poorhouse. Recognized as a historic landmark by the Avon Lake Historic Preservation Commission in 2013 all burial sites within Lake Shore Cemetery's grounds are claimed. The colorful stories of its per