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Wolfe Cemetery is located off US-33 in Haydenville, Ohio (Starr Township, Hocking County). The coordinates are 39° 28' 16.42" N, 82° 18' 57.28" W.

Before I say anything else, let me say this: the hill you have to go up to get to Wolfe Cemetery is a little on the steep side. Therefore, I do not recommend going when there's snow on the ground! The road (driveway) is narrow so we didn't want to drive up for fear of slipping off the road and tearing up the bottom of the car. We parked in the sawmill lot across the street and walked up instead. The walk really wasn't too bad, but I kept slipping in the snow. I think spring or fall would be an excellent time to visit this cemetery. However, please be aware that this cemetery is on private property. Which means if you visit it without getting permission, you're trespassing. If you do visit the cemetery be respectful...vandalizing gravestones or anything else in this or any cemetery is definitely NOT "cool". Imagine how you'd feel if someone vandalized a gravestone of someone you care about.

This cemetery made my list of places to visit for two reasons. Reason number one is its an old cemetery and I just love exploring old cemeteries. It's very beautiful, the family takes fantastic care of it. All of the gravestones are in great shape.

Reason number two for visiting has to do with the flat graves, including the flat grave surrounded by the iron fence. The well known legend says that if you touch any of the flat graves you'll feel heat. Supposedly a witch was burned here and is buried under the grave with the iron fence around it. If you lay on one of these graves you'll supposedly be sucked in! HOWEVER, I think it's highly unlikely that the cemetery really is haunted. The names on the flat gravestone are those of two infants who died in 1877 and 1878, and I've NEVER heard of an infant being a witch! The legends about the cemetery being haunted were probably just created because of the cemetery's desolate location. So if you're interested in visiting a truly haunted place, you might want to try a different location.

Wolfe Cemetery has a very interesting history. The first burial at the cemetery was May 9, 1845 when Christopher Wolfe's wife, Rhoda Dorr, passed away. All of the people buried in the cemetery, except one, were members of the family or had married into the family. The one person buried there who wasn't family is Wilson Patrick. Wilson Patrick was a hired hand who worked for Christopher Wolf for over thirty-five years. He even worked for the family during bad economical times when the family was not able to pay him. They did provide him with shelter and food though, so he was almost like a member of the family. Wilson Patrick had no family, so when he died the Wolf family buried him in their cemetery without hesitation since he had been with the family for so long. In fact, he was such a close friend of the family that Christopher Wolf's children even named two of their own children after him...there were two boys, one named Wilson and one named Patrick!

In September 2005 the site was mentioned unfavorably in Ohio Magazine, in an article written about the cemetery. The article implied that my site is one of the main reasons the cemetery is vandalized. I disagree with that - the legend about the alleged witch's grave was around many years before Grave Addiction existed. It was even being told before the Internet was around! Second, my site is one of many that mentions this legend, but it was the only one mentioned in the article. I don't know how I can make it any more clear than I already have...I do NOT believe the cemetery is really haunted, and I do not encourage or condone vandalizing any cemetery.

I want to give a big "thank you" to the Wolfe family for sharing all of this historical information with me! Dennis, Sunny, and Jody were extremely helpful, and I really appreciate their kindness. I'd also like to thank Shannon at Lost Southeast Ohio for giving me AWESOME directions to the cemetery.

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