EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of a weekly series on our region’s history coordinated by the Trumbull County Historical Society.

There are four cemeteries contained within Vienna Township’s borders: Crown Hill Memorial Park, Vienna Township Cemetery, Doud Cemetery and Dunlap Cemetery.

Across these four cemeteries, more than 20,000 people have been interred in the township’s existence. It is estimated that there are more than 3,400 veterans buried in the township’s cemeteries.

Doud Cemetery, a small, township-maintained cemetery near state Route 11 and King Graves Road, has only 50 people known to have been interred. Three soldiers rest there: one from the Revolutionary War and two from the Civil War.

Dunlap Cemetery, another township-maintained graveyard, is located on Scoville-North Road. This cemetery only has 46 known interments. Five veterans may be found resting there: one soldier from the Revolutionary War, two soldiers from the War of 1812 and two soldiers who served in the Mexican war.

The Vienna Township Cemetery, also township-maintained, contains 333 known veterans, which includes five headstones of soldiers that are cenotaphs. A cenotaph is an “empty tomb” or monument erected to honor individuals or groups whose remains are buried elsewhere or were never recovered.

One such example is Civil War veteran Selden Truesdell. He died at the age of 24 during the Battle of Peach Tree Creek in Georgia. His actual burial with a government issued headstone is at Marietta National Cemetery in Marietta, Georgia, but his name also appears on the family headstone in Vienna Township Cemetery. Soldiers from the Revolutionary War, Whiskey Rebellion, War of 1812, Mexican War, Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, Korean conflict and Vietnam War may also be found in this cemetery.

Interred at Vienna Township Cemetery is Roberta Wilson, who served in the WAVES Program created during World War II. WAVES or Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service was a branch of the U.S. Naval Reserve created to fill noncombat roles on shore to free up men for active duty at sea. In this program, women filled positions such as clerks, hospital corpsmen, aviation specialists and codebreakers.

Crown Hill Memorial Park, a privately owned cemetery, contains one Civil War Soldier and four Spanish-American war veterans. This cemetery also includes many veterans that served in World War I, World War II, the Korean conflict and the Vietnam War. At least two women interred at Crown Hill Memorial Park have been identified as serving in the WAVES Program during World War II: Anne Pollander and Bertha (Cola) Schrader. Several men that were killed in action during the Vietnam War are known to be buried there, including Donald Bartek, Kenneth Crysel, Robert Logue and Terrance Weant.

For more information on veterans buried in Vienna Township, visit viennapedia.org/veterans.