We visited this cemetery when we were in Dayton on a road trip. I was amazed at how many interesting people are buried here. The Wright Brothers, Erma Bombeck, Paul Dunbar. Don’t get me started on the absolutely amazing memorials and gravestones throughout this beautiful place of rest.

The Wright Brothers: A nice wooden sign let’s you know of their burial in this section. First you have their gravestones that passerby’s have lay their coins and mini airplanes in memory of the inventors of flight. A little ways down, you will find a sweet bench with 2 hats side by side representing these amazing men, Orville and Wilbur Wright.

Erma Bombeck: A sign leads you to the humorist’s gravesite. A 15 ton rock, 6 feet long and more than 5 feet high, marks Erma Bombeck's grave site. Bombeck had loved the rock to sit and think of her stories she would write, and when she died it was shipped from Arizona to Dayton on a flatbed truck. The stone was lifted into place by two cranes, and a crater had to be dug to stabilize it. A third of the rock is below ground.

Paul Laurence Dunbar: One the first African American poets to have their works known across the country. His short 33 years of life were filled with novels, short stories and poems.

Johnny Morehouse: A boy and his dog grave. The story goes that the little boy fell into the river and the dog jumped in after him to save him. Sadly, he was too late and the little boy drowned. Legend has it that the dog lay by the gravestone for weeks while passerbys through scraps down so he wouldn't be hungry.

I hope to return to be able to have a look at more of the beauty in this cemetery 🌺