The Crawford County Chapter of OGS hosted Ronny Echelberger at the October meeting. Ronny is a dedicated preserver of Cemeteries and Gravstones, focusing in Richland County Ohio. Meeting attendees learned about terms like Taphophiles and Coimetromania and techniques for correctly preserving gravesites.

Taphophile: Someone who is interested in funerals, gravestone art, epitaphs and cemeteries.
Coimetromania: An abnormal attraction to and desire to visit cemeteries.

Ronny Echelberger provides preservation services like

  • Preservation planning
  • condition & risk assessments
  • NCPTT compliant materials & techniques: cleaning, resetting, releveling, repair, stone replacement, masonry repointing & reconstruction, stone strengthening
  • ground leveling, tree & vegetation removal, reseeding
  • exploratory & archaeological searches
  • historical & genealogical research

Interested in learning more about Ronny Echelberger’s Services? Contact him today!

Published by Crawford County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society

Since 1974 the Crawford County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society has been researching family history in Crawford County Ohio.