Many members of the Hale, Hammond, and Cranz families, who were integral in founding and developing Bath Township, are buried in this cemetery. Connecticut natives Jonathan Hale and Jason Hammond were the first to purchase land in the area that would become Bath Township. In 1810, Jonathan Hale and his nephew Theodore Hammond arrived at Township 3, Range 12 of the Connecticut Western Reserve. Jonathan and Mercy Piper Hale’s family built a brick home in 1827 and lived there until 1955, when it became the Hale Farm & Village of the Western Reserve Historical Society. Jason and Rachel Hale Hammond’s family began building a frame home in 1818, and it was completed in 1836. The Hammond property extended from the valley to Hammond’s Corners. When the township was organized in 1818, settlers had to choose a name. Surveyors called it Wheatfield, but it became known as Hammondsburgh until Jonathan Hale reportedly exclaimed, “O, call it Jerusalem, Jericho, or Bath…anything but Hammondsburgh!” Bath was chosen as the township’s name. In 1863, William and Mary Drushel Cranz bought the Hammond homestead and moved their ten children to Pleasant Valley, where they had two more children and lived until 1975. Erwin Hammond transferred land for this cemetery when he sold the homestead in 1863, and William Cranz and Othello Hale deeded additional property for it in 1879.