{"id":39441,"date":"2017-02-03T13:22:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T21:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=39441"},"modified":"2017-02-03T13:22:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T21:22:44","slug":"over-600-graves-damaged-in-the-last-2-years-at-columbus-ohios-green-lawn-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=39441","title":{"rendered":"Over 600 Graves Damaged in the Last 2 Years at Columbus, Ohio&#8217;s Green Lawn Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/drudgetoday.com\/v2\/r?n=0&amp;s=2&amp;c=1&amp;pn=Anonymous&amp;u=http:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/news\/20170129\/security-camera-shows-latest-vandal-damaging-green-lawn-cemetery\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Green-Lawn-Cemetery-Columbus-Ohio-Vandalism_250pw.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-39442\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The following excerpt is from an article first posted in the <em>Columbus Dispatch<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yellow caution tape flapped in the wind, crisscrossing the entrance of a mausoleum erected nearly 100 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the latest sign of vandalism at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenlawncemetery.org\/\">Green Lawn Cemetery<\/a>, where more than 600 grave sites have been damaged in the past two years at a cost of more than $1 million.<\/p>\n<p>The latest incident occurred on Jan. 9 when a man entered through a broken fence and damaged a mausoleum and eight grave sites before grabbing a fistful of American flags from the graves of veterans and lighting them afire. He tossed the burning flags into a brush pile \u2014 an act caught by a security camera \u2014 before leaving the cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fences are a lot like locks. They keep honest people out,&#8221; said Randy Rogers, a trustee on the cemetery&#8217;s volunteer board.<\/p>\n<p>The cemetery has grave sites of five governors and five Medal of Honor recipients, including Civil War veteran Ovid Smith, whose marker was damaged by vandals on Aug. 14.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/drudgetoday.com\/v2\/r?n=0&#038;s=2&#038;c=1&#038;pn=Anonymous&#038;u=http:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/news\/20170129\/security-camera-shows-latest-vandal-damaging-green-lawn-cemetery\">Read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following excerpt is from an article first posted in the Columbus Dispatch: Yellow caution tape flapped in the wind, crisscrossing the entrance of a mausoleum erected nearly 100 years ago. It&#8217;s the latest sign of vandalism at Green Lawn <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=39441\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Over 600 Graves Damaged in the Last 2 Years at Columbus, Ohio&#8217;s Green Lawn Cemetery<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cemeteries","category-ohio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39443,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39441\/revisions\/39443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}