Philip Gatch Burial Site Greenlawn Cemetery

Reverend Philip Gatch (1751 – 1834) was a Methodist minister who freed the slaves that he inherited from his wife’s father. Gatch moved to the Milford area in 1798 to escape the evils of slavery. Because of his anti-slavery viewpoint, Clermont County citizens selected him as a delegate to Ohio's first Constitutional Convention in 1802. The Greenlawn Cemetary was originally established on Gatch's far as a family burial ground in 1811. Gatch and his wife Elizabeth were buried here. It also holds the burial site of John M. Pattison, 43rd Governor of Ohio. The Cemetery is open to the public.