East Claridon in Geauga County, Ohio — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)

East Claridon Cemetery Veterans Memorial

Photographed by Craig Doda, May 9, 2026

1. East Claridon Cemetery Veterans Memorial Marker

Inscription. In memory of
the men and women of
Claridon
who served their country

Nathan Ford, 1776 • Ruben Kidder, 1776 • Peter Pangburn, 1776 • Darius Armstrong, 1812 • Elind Boughton, 1812 • George Green, 1812 • Ridington Hathaway, 1812 • Lot Hathaway, 1812 • David Ober, 1812 • Madison Adams, Civil • Reuben Ames, Civil • Burton Armstrong, Civil • Eli R. Bennett, Civil • Philo Boughton, Civil • Elias Chapel, Civil • Stephen Crofut, Civil • Franklin Dimock, Civil • Nathaniel Dimock, Civil • Timothy Dimock, Civil • Martin Durkee, Civil • Levings Gould, Civil • John Hathaway, Civil • Jacob Hiltabidel, Civil • Horatio Kile, Civil • Almon Knapp, Civil • Selah Laraway, Civil • Erman Mastick, Civil • Eugene Morehouse, Civil • Newell Orcutt, Civil • Robert Phillips, Civil • Sherbin Reed, Civil • Norton Russell, Civil • Watson Spring, Civil • George Stillwell, Civil

Benjamin Demuth, Span-Amer. • Vernon Shaw, Span-Amer. • John Burns, WWI • Wade Corson, WWI • Hobart Cottam, WWI • Joseph Demko, WWI • Lester Frey WWI • Ulysses Gould, WWI • Charles H. Merwin, WWI • William Parker, WWI • Raymond Beech, WWII • Earl Clark, WWII • Leonard H. Connelly,

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WWII • Arthur Fleder, Jr., WWII • Walter Hausrath, WWII • Robert Hummel, WWII • Stanley G. Kibler, WWII • Joseph Lendvay, Sr., WWII • William J. Lipscomb, WWII • Arthur J. Merkel, WWII • Dennis Moore, WWII • Steve Motil, Jr., WWII • James Nussbaum, WWII • August F. Rudolph, WWII • Robert Snead, WWII • Wayne, Stone, WWII • Edward V. Ward, WWII • Fred D. Wilson, WWII • Roberts. Wilson, Sr., WWII • Melvin "Tim" Young, WWII • Fred Taniro, WWII • James Evans, Korea • Joseph Hummel, Jr., Korea • Mike Krawsczyn, Jr., Korea

Jack Lee Young, Korea • Donald Serwatka, Jr., U.S. Army • Blake Troutman, U.S. Army • James Wood, U.S. Army • Jerry Young, U.S. Army • Daune G. Rector, U.S. Marine • Walter Lee, U.S. Navy • Rex Adams, Vietnam • Robert Allen, Vietnam • Richard Allen, Vietnam • Bernard Parsons, WWII • Charles F. Palansky, WWII • Noah Yutsy, Korea • Emil Luoma, WWII • John Minadeo, Sr., WWII • Robert D. Plumley, Jr., U.S. Navy • Lowell Armstrong, WWII • William, Suvada, WWII • Jerome Sanford, WWII • Richard Neill, Korea • Robert Hantak, WWII • Gerry Van Orsdale, WWII • Gale Robinson, WWII • Michael Pitorak, WWII • Thomas Dick, WWII • Cecil

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Photographed by Craig Doda, May 9, 2026

2. East Claridon Cemetery Veterans Memorial

Thayer, WWII • Jewell Lawrence, WWII • Harold Sullivan, WWII • Mabel Miller, WWII • Richard Miller, WWII • Albert Putzke, WWII • Harold Serafine, U S. Navy • John Graham, WWII • Robert Lilley, WWII • Peter Petersen, Sr., WWII • Arthur Reithoffer, WWII • Norman Riffet, Sr., WWII • Richard Adams, Korea • William Cramer, Korea • Raymond Janiro, Korea • Joseph Helt, WWII • Stanley Wells, WWII • Robert Hambleton, USAF • Robert Ashley, WWII • Stanley Sestar, WWII • Paul Tiber, Korea • Elwood Buell, WWII

Louis Niksick, Afghanistan • Pete Kostelec, Vietnam • Harold Folk, WWII • John Price, Korea • Frederick Koth, Vietnam • Gordon Austin, Vietnam • William Vancura, WWII • Donald Wells, WWII • Phillip Adams, WWII • Richard Stith, Vietnam • William Kuchenbecker, Army • Ellis Dillen, USAF • Wallace Ray Hietanen, Korea • James Park, Vietnam • William Dolsen, USAF • Robert Wilson Jr., Vietnam • William Hopkins, Army • Joseph Demko, Korea

Dedicated May 25, 1998 to those who served their country and are burud here a second monument of the same likeness has been erесtеd in the Claridon Center Cemetery with the names of veterans buried

Photographed by Craig Doda, May 9, 2026

3. East Claridon Cemetery Veterans Memorial

there.

The following veterans are interred in
West Claridon Cemetery
Elijah Allen, 1812 • Elijah Douglass, 1812 • Aranda Kellogg, 1812 • Amos Pitkin, 1812 • Halsey Spencer, 1812 • Nathaniel Spencer, 1812 • Segur Steele, 1812

Timothy Tainter, 1812 • Aurelius Burwell, Civil • Chester Cobb, Civil • Myron Fox, Civil • L. Wellington Nash, Civil • Allen Spencer, Civil

Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: Military.

Location. 41° 31.749′ N, 81° 6.843′ W. Memorial is in East Claridon, Ohio, in Geauga County. It is at the intersection of North State Street (Ohio Route 608) and Mayfield Road (U.S. 322) on North State Street. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 12490 Old State Rd, Huntsburg OH 44046, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Greater Cleveland

and in the Western Reserve.

It is also in the American Midwest.

Globally, it is in North America,

on the Great Lakes,

in the Western Hemisphere,

in the Western World,

and in the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee

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(Iroquois) Confederacy,

the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

and the Northwest Territory.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 4 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Claridon Veterans Memorial (approx. 1½ miles away); First Congregational Church of Claridon UCC (approx. 1½ miles away); Original School Bell (approx. 1½ miles away); Veterans Memorial (approx. 3.9 miles away); The Great Geauga County Fair (approx. 3.9 miles away); a different marker also named Veterans Memorial (approx. 3.9 miles away); Dan McClelland (approx. 3.9 miles away); Paul Harris and Pam Krotzer (approx. 3.9 miles away).

Credits. This page was last revised on May 20, 2026. It was originally submitted on May 18, 2026, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. This page has been viewed 22 times since then. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on May 18, 2026, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. • Devry Becker Jones was the editor who published this page.