Champaign County OHArchives - Kenton Memorial Cemetery Index ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandi Evilsizer Koscak For the rest of the inscription please visit: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~champaign/Champcem.html ************************************************ Kenton Memorial Cemetery The Kenton Memorial Cemetery is located on the old Samson Talbot farm, southwest corner of Section 1, Concord Township, two miles west of the Urbana city limits, on Millerstown road, running due west. The plot of ground was donated in 1810, to the surrounding community by Samson Talbot, the second permanent set- tier of Concord Township (1802). The cemetery itself is rather small, being some one-hundred feet long, and only about fifty feet in width. The grounds are fenced in with iron railing. Barbed wire has been stretched between the rails, thus keeping out livestock and other large animals that might prove destructive. In the center of the burial ground is a large red marble me- modal monument that was erected by the present immediate families, whose relatives have been buried there. The inscriptions upon the marble markers can be read without much trouble, and taking into consideration that most of the graves are over one-hundred years old, the place is not in such a bad condition. Within the cemetery axe buried the deceased of three principal families, the Kentons, the Arrowsmiths, and the Talbots. These families all settled in Concord Township at about the same time, and soon all became related through intermarriage. There are several very historically interesting tombstones to be found in the little burial ground. From the standpoint of historical interest, the Kenton memorial Cemetery is one of the most valuable points of interest in Champaign County. (From CCGS Newsletter Dec 2004 Vol 20 No 4, from WPA Writers Project J W Stoll, Editor Mar 13, 1841 ============================================== SURNAME, GIVEN NAME ============================================== ANDERSON, Vincent Soldier in the War of 1812 ARROWSMITH, Elizabeth, wife of Ezekiel ARROWSMITH, Ezekiel ARROWSMITH, Margaret, wife of Mason ARROWSMITH, Mason ARROWSMITH, Samuel son of Ezekiel & Elizabeth ARROWSMITH, Warren, son of Miller & Celinda CARAWAY, John CHANDLER, Margaret, wife of Wm- widow of Goerge PURCEL CUSTAR, Arnold CUSTAR, Elizabeth wife of Arnold EBY, Julia, wife of John GIBBS, Hugh HALLER, June, wife of Wm. HALLER, Sarah, wife of Wm. HALLER, William KENTON, Jonathan KENTON, Mark KENTON, Susannah KENTON, William McVAY, Asa M McVAY, Cephus MURPHY, Martin OLIVER, Mildred, wife of Peter PHILLIPS, mary, dau of Elijah & Hannah, wife of James GILLESPIE RUSSELL, Celia, dau of Samson & Jane KENTON SCHOOLEY, Mary E, dau of W & T, STRETCH, Jemima, wife of Wm. STRETCH, William TALBOT, Ann wife of Samson TALBOT, Demovil TALBOT, Samson TALBOT, Samuel TAYLOR, John R, son of Samuel THOMAS, John C, son of J.S. & E. THOMAS, Mariah M dau of A & C WADE, James H son of John & C WIREMAN, Benjamin F WIREMAN, Mary