Vine Street Hill Cemetery - Public Safety Memorial Restored
What: Re-Dedication of the Vine Street Hill Cemetery
Public Safety Service LODD Memorial
Where: Vine Street Hill Cemetery
(3701 Vine Street, Cincinnati, Ohio)
When: 04 November 2015 @ 12:00 Noon
Vine Street Hill Cemetery Fire and Police LODD Memorial
Courtesy: Cincinnati Fire Museum
In 1980 Vine Street Hill Cemetery honored fallen members of the public safety services buried on their cemetery grounds with a public memorial. The memorial included a bronze plaque that listed the names of Firefighters and Police Officers who were killed in the line of duty and subsequently buried in the cemetery. At some point in the recent past the monument was desecrated. The bronze name plates were pulled off of the plaque.
Vandalized Memorial: Name Plates Removed
Courtesy: Vine Hill Street Cemetery
Members of the Greater Cincinnati Police Museum were conducting research related to the death of a member who was buried at Vine Street Hill Cemetery. It was found this member was interred without a headstone. The Greater Cincinnati Police Museum and the Cemetery purchased a headstone to honor this member and it has now been installed in the cemetery. It was during the course of this research that the damage to the public safety monument came to light.
Vandalized Memorial - Detail
Courtesy: Vine Street Hill Cemetery
The Greater Cincinnati Police Museum conducted research with the cemetery and Cincinnati Fire Museum to reconstruct the LODD that was vandalized. The monument has now been repaired and will be re-dedicated during a ceremony on November 4th.
The newly installed headstone for fallen Patrolman Frederick Karsch who was shot during a public disturbance on November 3, 1880 will also be featured in the ceremony. Patrolman Karsch died on November 4, 1880 and the ceremony coincides with the 135th anniversary of his death in the line of duty.
Fallen Police & Firefighters
Honored at Vine Hill Street Cemetery:
Frederick Karsch CPD 1880
Louis Klusman CPD 1896
John Schnucks CPD 1916
William Deiters CPD 1918
Richard Ell CPD 1918
Elijah Boileau B&O South West RR 1919
Lt.Fred Hotel CFD 1920
Fire Marshal Peter Schraffenberger CFD 1922
Clifford Cornish CPD 1925
Engineer Albert Klingler CFD 1929
Walter Commins Wyoming PD 1930
Lt.John Kuhfers CFD 1933
Charles Blymyer CFD 1934
Jesse Hicks CPD 1935
Julius Mayer CPD 1940
Carl Hille CPD 1942
Richard Spratt CFD 1942
Lewis Hall CPD 1948
Lester Meyers CFD 1951
Walter Williams CPD 1951
Additional information about the above listed Firefighter LODDs can be found by clicking the link:
Additional information about the police officers listed above can be found on the website of the Greater Cincinnati Police Museum
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