Madison County History and Genealogy

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Cemeteries


From Atlas of Madison County by J.A. Caldwell, Condit, Ohio (1875)

For many years the early settlers had their family or neighborhood burying grounds. One of these was on the John Phifer farm, where several of the Phifer family and many of the people of that neighborhood found their final resting place: but now nothing remains to show that there was ever a grave made there, the ground being used and cultivated for grain. Another was on the Hume land. Some bodies, however, have been removed from here and deposited in more permanent and well-preserved cemeteries. This ground is, however, sti11 inclosed by a fence, but no more persons are being buried there. The only one which has become a permanent burial-place is the Withrow Cemetery. This was first established as a family burying place of the Withrow family, and was probably first opened by the reception of a body of a child of William Crider, after which it became the general burying place for the neighborhood, and thus continued till about 1870, when it became the property of the township. Originally there was but one acre of ground fenced in. The Trustees then purchased six acres of David Watson and added to it, so that it now contains seven acres, and is well fenced in, and laid out in walks, with good graveled roads and walks around them, with good shade and ornamental trees, making it a very pretty rural cemetery, and a fit depository and resting place for the dead.


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