Columbiana County OhArchives News.....Forsaken Dead May 28, 1901 ************************************************ 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: Sheila Fritts sfritts101@hotmail.com August 10, 2005, 6:43 pm The East Liverpool Daily Crisis May 28, 1901 FORSAKEN DEAD Names of Those in the Fifth Street Cemetery Place of Desolate Ruins The Hand of the Vandal Is Everywhere in Evidence – Regular Loitering Place for Bums – Need of Official Recognitiom The old cemetery at the end of Fifth Street is one of the most desolate spots in the Ohio valley, and that is saying a great deal, for the valley is a pretty extensive piece of territory. There are hardly words enough in the English language to adequately picture this graveyard's condition as it exists today. A trip to see it readily convinces one that it is a smirch upon the credit of East Liverpool and a blow at popular intelligence. Much has been written about the unsanitary and unsightly features of this place. Complaints innumerable have been registered against it. In spite of all this it exists and flourishes in worse shape now than ever before. Many bodies have been disinterred and removed elsewhere. In fact this work goes on whenever anybody happens to remember that they have relatives buried there, if they wish them to rest in peace in a fitting place, uncontaminated by the hand of the vandal. Many, however, scarcely ever give a thought to the resting place of their ancestors whose earthly trials and hardships were ended years ago. If they do, there is no effort to lend heed. What matters if that a few human bones, failing to find earth enough to hide their nakedness, go over the hill to bleach and moulder in the sun? What matters it that vandals overrun this place which should be sacred to its dead? What matters it that the fallen make it a place of rendezvous? What matters it that the drunken take themselves there to hold their unholy revels? The dead are dead, they know nothing and care not. A Crisis reporter was delegated Monday afernoon to visit the cemetery and if possible set forth its condition. One's first impression is ruins, ruins, ruins. The small boy of that locality has his favoirte ball grounds there on a clear space where he plays his match games. Tombstones in many instances are flat on the ground and occasionally buried beneath it. Brambles, briars, weeds, trees and grasses grow rich and luxuriant. Some graves are so thickly overgrown that it is simply impossible to get to them. Monuments, also old and time-worn, are defaced by the hand of man, being broken in a few cases so badly that the names and dates are absolutely undecipherable. Great holes in the ground show some have been thoughtful enough to remove their dead to more holy places. Here is a haunt of the intoxicated. As an illustration of the latter statement and to emphasize it: While the reporter was contemplating the sorrowful scene and meditating upon the soul- stirring stories those old gravestones would tell could they only talk, a tall officer of the law made his way down one of the numerous paths running through the place. In a moment he had sent a small boy to "call the patrol." It soon arrived and the officer proceeded to drag two men out of the bushes and stow them in the wagon. They were beastily drunk and had been "sleeping it off." The policmean said: "That's nothing. This is the greatest loafing place for drunks and bum I ever saw. We have to watch it pretty closely." With that the patrol drove away from the home of the dead with its cargo of the semi-dead. A list was taken from the remaining headstones in the cemetery as accurately as possible. This does not include all as many graves bear no headstones, while some could not be made out. It is probable a number of bodies have been removed where the headstones still remain. The list of those who have apparently had no one to look after them includes 134 names. The names are familiar to many. They follow with the year in which death occurred. Among the list is the name of Joseph McKinnon, the first white child born in Northwestern Ohio. He was born in 1750. The names of quite a number of old soldiers also appear in the list: Ellen Bannister - 1886 Sarah A. Murry - 1861 Sarah Hill - 1862 Harry Hill - 1869 Florine J. Shenkel - 1870 Jemima Christian - 1858 Anna M. Kilian - 1861 William Elliss - 1853 Prudence Talbot - 1864 John Blakeney - 1858 Margaret Blakeney - 1858 Josephine B. Mix,MD-1880 Annie L. Wolf - 1878 Lizzie A. Hanley - 1860 Harriet M. Orr - 1862 Errilla J. Orr - 1862 Harry Walter - 1877 Charlie Sebring - 1877 William H. Ford - 1879 Cragie Derrington - 1877 Maudie Derrington - 1880 Zilla A. Pauly - 1876 Nancy Rusbey - 1860 Ann Harrison - 1857 Mary Johnson - 1855 Elizabeth Boyce - 1856 William R. Bannon - 1874 Emma M. Croxall - 1876 Barney Bucheit, no date, Co H, 62d PA Infantry Harry C. Cannon - 1877 Laura B. Jackson - 1877 Herbert H. Porter - 1876 Mary Booth - 1874 John Rigby, Sr. - 1886 Joseph Forbes - 1857 Susanna Scott - 1853 Sarah W. E. Peacher - 1870 Emma Smith - 1851 Infant son of H.W. & M.S. Vanfossan - 1878 James Cocker - 1857 Henry Smith - 1849 Mary J. Smith - 1847 James Cocker - 1832 Catherine Arb - 1848 William W. Devers - 1839 Mary Devers - 1849 Mary A. Baird - 1850 John C. Devers - 1856 Frank P. George - 1852 D.C. Moore - 1869 Infant daughter of D.C. & L.Moore - 1854 James Tunstall - 1884 Edward Jones - 1884 William Curran - 1853 Willie G. Curran - 1857 Stephen Kent - 1882 Thomas Firth - 1881 Cora M. McKinney - 1881 Margaret McKennon - 1830 Bertie Reed - 1877 Eliza Miller - 1840 Mary Verner - 1856 Joseph Hunter - 1854 Joseph Webber - 1844 Agnes C. Stevens - 1846 Theodore Stephens - 1845 Albina Hervey - 1852 Margaret J. Dobbs - 1854 Thomas Croxall - 1875 Mary E. Cochran - 1856 Hester Ann Knowles-no date Zillah Harker - no date Elmer E. Allison – 1861 Dorinda E. Allison – 1854 Lucinda B. Martin – 1861 Mary E. Martin – 1861 Rose Dunn – 1855 Joseph Frankenhouser – 1855 Edmond Staley – 1848 Margaret Edwards – 1879 Andrew F. Edwards – 1874 Elizabeth Barnhart – 1867 S. Marie Fleutke – 1858 Mary J. Morely – 1873 George Grafton – 1864 Ohio J. Smith, Co. A 115th O.V. died in service – 1863 Mollie George – 1877 William Harvey – 1866 Margaret Brawdy – 1869 Thomas D. Blackmore – 1861 Elizabeth Blackmore – 1862 John Henshall-1872 Hannah Henshall – 1878 Harriet Newel Blythe – 1867 Stanton Blythe – 1865 John Twaddle – 1872 Mary A. Twaddle – 1865 George Grace – 1861 Margaret Hague – 1862 Rebecca E.A. Geddes – 1862 Maranda J. Geddes – 1865 Alexander Geddes – 1847 Josias R. Gardner – 1866 Eliza Merchant – 1878 George Deidrick – 1866 Catharine Deidrick – 1876 Elizabeth Deidrick – 1849 Ferdenand Deidrick – 1852 Cyrus Deidrick – 1843 James Foster – 1868 M.H. Foutts – May 1882 Flora Foutts 1870 Lida R. Foutts – 1870 Ellie Neville – 1881 James Michael – 1871 George W. Holtzman – 1871 Rebecca Jolly – 1870 Elizabeth A. Hasselman–1877 Richard Henderson – 1871 J. Walper – 1873 William Till – 1849 Caleb Till – 1871 Elizabeth Marks – 1871 Lot G. Armstrong – 1869 Charles M. Thompson–1859 Jane Walker – 1868 Rosanna B. Farmer – 1866 May B. Farmer – 1869 Susan Colclough – 1862 Eliza Knowles – 1870 Ellsworth O. Bennett– 864 Lafayette Wilkinson – 1871 Robert Hails – 1865 Joseph Beardmore - 1855 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/columbiana/newspapers/forsaken66nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 8.1 Kb