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CEDARVILLE CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS
BELPRE, WASHINGTON CO., OHIO
As photographed and read by
Debbie Noland Nitsche in 2004 and 2005
Includes notes from photos and excerts from other transcriptions found in the information center at the cemetery, and excerts of book written by Marietta Chapter DAR, 1923.
Cedarville Cemetery
Written by Catherine Sams
January 1986.
(Copied with permission)
This cemetery is located off of Old Cemetery Dr., in Belpre, Ohio next to the Ohio River. Due to the ravages of time and the Ohio River there aren't many tombstones left in it now. It was established by the original settlers in what is now Belpre Twp. as land provided by the Ohio Company. This one acre plot was first known as Old Rockland and more recently as Cedarville Cemetery. The catastrophic flood of 1884 washed away part of the earlier graves. Consequently, the graves of the Putnam's, Brownings, Major John Haskell and possibly others were moved to Rockland Cemetery in the late 1800's to save them from a fimilar fate.
While researching for the Rockland Cemetery Book, I enjoyed many happy and informative discussions with Bernice Hayes concerning the "Old Rockland" and "New Rockland" Cemeteries. (Bernice's husband, Ralph, was a Belpre Township Trustee for many years and was very involved with the upkeep of Rockland Cemetery.) Bernice gave me two readings of the Cedarville Cemetery. One was done by DAR when they were locating graves of Revolutionary War Veterans and the other by Bernice herself. I don't know what the dates were that the readings were taken and I can't ask Bernice because she herself is now a resident of Rockland Cemetery. --End--
(This article is also located in the information center at the cemetery).
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NOTES: Replaced stone.
NOTES: There are a couple of unreadable stones in this family lot. A transcription was found in the information center, by Laura Curtis Preston. She read the Barkley plot in 1930 and again in '37. States this about the family and her discription of the plot in 1937.:
S. & N. Barkley were Samuel and Nancy (Burroughs) Barkley; they are buried in the Rockland cemetery. Barkley "came from Washington Co., Penn." as stated by Wm. H. Barkley, Belpre. The Barkley lot was once well enclosed. In 1937 the lot, was about 18x20 feet, outlined with cut stone into which are out sockets, perhaps for pickets; there are stone posts about 3 feet high at corners, as sides and for a gate -- all tops broken.-
ADDITIONAL NOTES: The information center about the cemetery is on the opposite side of the Barkley Family Lot. The post in the back is where I found Peregrine Foster's orginial headstone when I was there in July 2005. Not there on July 7, 2005. Missing from cemetery.
NOTES: Replaced stone. In Barkley Family Lot.
NOTES: Original headstone. Original stone in Barkely lot next to a post. There is another stone that was unreadable and in very poor condition in front (foot) of her stone. Her reading in at the bottom part of the headstone. Transcription in the information center at the cemetery gives her year of birth as 1834. DAR Reading lists her middle intial as "V". Another transcription was found in the information center done in 1930 and 1937, by Laura Curtis Preston. She read the Barkley plot in 1930 and again in '37. It states: Barkley, Emma, dau. of of S. & N. Barkley, d. April 8, 1858 in 21 yrs of her age. (Marble, down, '37)
BARKLEY, JAMES T. - died July 1843 aged 23 yrs. & 6 days "Only boy of S. N. Barkley"
NOTES: No photo. This was listed from the transcriptions in the information center at the cemetery. There are | ||