Spring Grove Cemetery and
the Wurlitzer Family Gravesites

(Photograph courtesy of Tracy Newman and Don Rand)

The main entrance gate into the Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio..

(Photograph courtesy of Tracy Newman and Don Rand)

Charming old historic office building next to the main entrance gate to Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.

(Photograph courtesy of Tracy Newman and Don Rand)

Looking up a gentle hill at Spring Grove Cemetery towards the main Wurlitzer family grave plots, which are located within the area circumscribed by the red circular outline. What looks to be a black horizontal line in the center of the red outline is actually a shadow cast underneath the top slab of a stone bench inscribed with the Wurlitzer name.

(Photograph courtesy of Tracy Newman and Don Rand)

The main Rudolph Wurlitzer family grave sites located on a gentle knoll in the beautiful old Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio. At picture center is a stately stone bench inscribed with the Wurlitzer name. The apparent horizontal black line on the bench is nothing more than a shadow underneath the top stone slab. The sturdy bench overlooks the flat grave markers for the various Wurlitzer family members--but excluding those of Howard E. Wurlitzer, his wife, and daughter, which are buried in another part of the cemetery. To the immediate right of the stone bench is an aged standing tombstone inscribed with, "Our Percy," an 8-month old infant son born to Rudolph and Leonie Wurlitzer.

(Photograph courtesy of Tracy Newman and Don Rand)

The Howard E. Wurlitzer family grave sites in the beautiful old Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio. These grave sites are some distance form the rest of the Wurlitzer family graves, and they have purposely been covered over with something similar to wooden snow fencing, and on which a vine has taken root so as to further obscured the graves. The reason behind this obvious attempt at camouflaging the graves is unknown.

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Obscured Howard E. Wurlitzer grave site. This grave, flanked by those of his wife and daughter, have all been purposely covered over with something similar to wooden snow fencing, and on which a vine has taken root so as to further obscured the graves.

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The obscured and hard to see grave stone for Helena V. B. Wurlitzer (wife of Howard Wurlitzer). Helena Wurlitzer is the owner of the lot in which her husband and daughter are also interred. Why Mrs. Wurlitzer chose a location far away from the rest of the Rudolph Wurlitzer family remains a mystery.

(Photograph courtesy of Tracy Newman and Don Rand)

The Luise H. Wurlitzer grave site. Luise was the young, unmarried daughter of Howard and Helena Wurlitzer. Like the graves of her father and mother, it has been covered over and made somewhat difficult to find.