The City View Cemetery has certainly been clneead up (best looking part of City View now). When I was a young girl in the 1940s, the cemetery was overgrown with weeds and fallen- rotten trees all over the place. The older graves (some from 1800s) were caved in and you could see parts of rotten caskets and metal casket handles sticking out of the ground. Looks like many of the stones have been clneead up and redone too. I wonder if the county had it clneead it up, or if possibly some civic group did it? There were bones thrown over the hill when I was young (by a man named Shamrock, who was the county paid grave digger) . One time we found a skull thrown over the hill and carried it around on a stick, holding it up to people’s windows and then running like the wind. We never desecrated any graves though. My Mother found out about the skull and we (neighborhood kids) were in BIG trouble. Mother went to the county and raised holy heck about it being a health hazard and a disgrace because of the mess the entire cemetery was in. I regret my disrespect and have felt guilt pangs many times as an adult for my childhood ignorance (Too many scary movies at Middleburg Theater). I would bet that some of Logan County’s earliest settlers are buried there. Some of the older death records refer to the cemetery as Coal Branch while later ones call it City View Cemetery. The Cemetery is owned by the county and it is (or was) where people could be buried at no charge by the county. It is where black people were buried during days of segregation, but there are more white people buried there than black, simply because of statistics. It is what would be called a “Potter’s Field” in metropolitan areas. Does anyone know when the cemetery was clneead up and when? Has anyone ever recorded the names in the cemetery? The county SHOULD have records of everyone buried there after the county took it over; I suspect in the 1920s or even earlier. Thank you for the wonderful pictures, Frank. Ekin