Woodvale Cemetery was established in the mid-1800s in Middleburgh Township, Ohio. Its oldest marked grave is that of Fred G. Klink (1833–1858), whose family donated a half acre of land for burials. Frank M. Stearns (1832-1911) suggested in 1786 that the unnamed cemetery be called Woodvale, after the wooded vale beside it. In 1908, a fire destroyed the caretaker’s house and many cemetery records. Woodvale became a non-profit union cemetery in 1931, owned by Berea and the Village of Middleburg Heights, and covered 33 acres at 7535 Engle Road. Pioneer families buried there include the Fowles, Draft, Lovejoy, Sprague, and Stearns families. Those buried there also include John Baldwin (1788–1884), founder of Baldwin University, and James Wallace (1878–1933), founder of German Wallace College, which merged in 1913 to become Baldwin Wallace College. Other notable burials include William Engle (1814-1897), a constable, township trustee, and school director who built the township’s first log house in 1848; veterans of every U.S. war and some conflicts, including Second Lt. Albert E. Baesel (1890-1918), a World War I soldier from the 148th Infantry Division who received the Congressional Medal of Honor; and children from Berea’s Home for Children, buried there from as early as 1890. Graves were dug by hand by caretakers, including one-armed Fred Beavis (1907-1989), until equipment began to be used in 1955. In 2010, Woodvale covered 50 acres and was bordered by Cleveland Metroparks, Big Creek Pkwy., and Fowles and Engle Roads, and a Board of Trustees from both cities governed the cemetery.