Mill Creek Township, Hamilton County, Ohio

As the original survey township covers a large portion of present-day Cincinnati, references to it are frequently encountered by genealogists.

[1][4][10] Attorney General Thomas J. Herbert issued an opinion that the cemetery enclave should be considered part of Cincinnati and the township should be abolished.

Meanwhile, the sexton could not simultaneously serve in all three trustee positions that state law requires of a functioning township government.

The county also sought to avoid setting up a special polling place for the sexton, which would have required the appointment of six election officers.

In 1953, a bill introduced by State Representative Robert F. Reckman[8] to consider remnants of townships with no resident freeholders to be part of municipalities as if they had been annexed was approved by the Governor.

Attorney General Jim Petro stepped in, obtaining a ruling in Common Pleas Court that removed the caretaker and declared Wesleyan a public cemetery.