Tucker Graveyard

This cemetery was originally near Tucker's Station on the Tucker farm in what is now Woodlawn, Ohio (Hamilton County).  The area was known as Springdale when the Station was active.  This cemetery was also known as Springfield Baptist Churchyard.

As of 2007, the status of this cemetery, the burials, and tombstones is uncertain.  Family records show the following:  The Tucker farm was sold and broken up during the 1870's.  As of 1930, this cemetery was located along what was then the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tracks between Marion Road and Skillman Road (now called Glendale-Milford Road).  The Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad laid these tracks through the Tucker farm.  (The tracks run north and south in between Springfield Pike and Wayne Avenue.)  The graveyard land was developed commercially sometime between the 1930's and the 1980's.  By the 1980's, nearby Landmark Baptist Church had possession of the Tucker Graveyard tombstones, having rescued these from the developers.

Modern research is inconclusive.  Ohio law supposedly protects pioneer graveyards from development.  A Tucker graveyard is recorded with the county but does not appear on parcel maps at the location described above.  Many records related to the Tucker farm may have been lost in courthouse fires.  Henry Tucker was supposedly one of the founders of a Baptist church near Tucker's Station, possibly located on his farm next to this cemetery.  This church was apparently called Springfield Baptist Church, which evolved into Landmark Baptist Temple and is now Landmark Church, 1600 Glendale-Milford Road, Cincinnati, Ohio.