Virtual Cemetery Tour: Thompson Strafe Cemetery

Virtual cemetery tour of Thompson-Strate Cemetery, in Bloom Township, Scioto County, Ohio, near Pine Creek Road and Wayne National Forest. This small family cemetery lies on a broad and ranging ridgeline adjacent to Wayne National Forest and near the Scioto County and Lawrence County border. Research into the area indicates that this may have been a cemetery related to the small and now extinct mining town Madland. Madland, Scioto County, Ohio, was a small agricultural and mining town affiliated Bloom Furnace Company and the Charcoal Iron Company. In 1900 a widow, Sarah A. Thompson, served as the postmaster for Madtown, alongside her Civil War-veteran husband, Andrew D. Thompson. Given the names interred here it is likely that these are burials associated with their family.