The Burial Report was created from the following sources: 
 Ayres, Thomas D., Lockwood Genealogy (2007);
 Cherry, Marjorie Loomis, Grave Records of Erie County Cemeteries – Milan;
 Cleveland Public Library, obituary file;
 Milan Ohio Cemetery Grave Owners & Burial Records Books;
 Milan Cemetery Association Records, located at the Milan Public Library; 
 Milan Cemetery gravestones;
 Newspaper Obituaries (e.g., Norwalk Reflector, Sandusky Register, Cleveland Plain Dealer);
 Ohio Online Death Records Index;
 Pascoe, Patty and Wunderley, Katheryn, Erie County, Ohio Cemetery Census Before 1907 (1984) Ohio (1935)
 RB Hayes Obituary Index;
 Social Security Death Index;
 St. Anthony’s Cemetery Record Book, 1889-1972;
 St. Anthony Cemetery (2007), by Paul & Margo Woronecki. 

The following Milan Cemetery Association burial section abbreviations were used:
 AN – Andrews Section
 HO – Hoover Section;
 LK – Lockwood Kurtz Section;
 OL – Old Section;
 OW – Old West Section;
 PA – Park Section;
 PO – Potters Field Section;
 SA – St. Anthony Section;
 T – Township Section;
 RB – Recent Burials by year.

The Burial Report spreadsheet was set up with the following Column headings:
 A, B, C – name last, first and middle;
 D – cemetery lot owner and residence;
 E – spouse and date of marriage;
 F – parents and military service;
 G – birth date;
 H – death / burial date, or St. Anthony’s Register of Deaths (Defunctorum) and place (if other than Milan);
 I, J, K – age at death in years, months and days;
 L – native of (e.g., birth place);
 M –residence at time of death; 
 N – burial section (see above for abbreviations), lot and grave site number or St. Anthony’s row, plot number and grave site number; and 
 P – photo of gravestone, if available. Note: most of these photos were taken in 2007 and 2009 and many stones were unreadable due to weathering.

Author: Thomas Dunmore Ayres
	Milan Cemetery Burial Report