HIESTAND

CEMETERY

TWP 16 | RNG 20 | SEC 21 | SE QTR

HIESTAND CIRCLE
PICKERINGTON, OH 43147

Joe McFarland

The Far-Land Legacy
The Publishing Legacy Company

Friday, March 8, 2024

Legacy Card for the Hiestand Cemetery.

DRIVING DIRECTIONS

Travel west from Hill Road (SR-256) on Blacklick Eastern Road NW (OH-204). Turn right onto Harmon Road and take the first left onto Spencer Blvd into Summerfield. Turn left onto Durham Circle and after passing three houses on the left, turn left onto Hiestand Circle. The small family cemetery is located in the middle of the cul-de-sac.

THE HISTORY

A small family burial ground remains intact as the center piece to the cul-de-sac of the Summerfield neighborhood located within the borders of Violet Township in Pickeringon, Ohio. Located off Harmon Road, the four surviving tombstones stand as a reminder of the old Hiestand family farm that once occupied the land. A developer purchased the land in the late 1990s with the sole intent to build a sub-division of homes promising to leave the cemetery safely unharmed. The company removed the tombstones to ensure their integrity, so their placement may not match exactly where their remains lie. Before they reinstalled the tombstones they removed the fence, sandblasted it, and rebuilt it surrounding the tombstones united with new stone columns at each corner. The township remains thankful for the historical preservation as many developers typically remove the remains of the deceased and relocate them to rest elsewhere. Grace is the younger sister of Abraham Pickering, who founded the city of Pickerington.

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MEMORIALS

BASED ON LOCATION OF TOMBSTONE

ROW 1

Mary
Hiestand

Grace
Pickering

Richard
Hiestand

Michael
Hiestand

FAIRFIELD COUNTY MAP

THE REFERENCES

Cemeteries of Violet Township, Fairfield County, Ohio (Lancaster: The Fairfield County Chapter of The Ohio Genealogical Society, 1990), 25.

“Hiestand Cemetery,” Find A Grave, last modified November 2, 2010, https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2376110/hiestand-cemetery.

PHOTOS

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