Hocking County OhArchives Photo Tombstone.....Conrad, Juliann ************************************************ 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: Dave & Lyn Hargreave david.hargreave@wmich.edu May 26, 2008, 5:03 am Cemetery: The Abandoned Conrad/Cardiff/Harper Cemetery Name: Juliann Conrad Date Of Photograph: 2007 & 2008 Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/hocking/photos/tombstones/abandonedconradc/conrad2105ph.jpg Image file size: 185.2 Kb 26. Presumed Juliann Conrad foot stone. (Juliann Conrad, d. Aug. 7, 1858, ae 40y 2m 7d. Wife of C.W. Conrad [for C read G]) The portion of the burying ground containing members of George W. Conrad’s family is greatly disturbed. None of the four transcribed headstones are erect and two are broken. A total of six bases have been uncovered, five of them aligned pretty much in a row running roughly north/south. A sixth base is about eight feet further east and appears to have once held the nearby foot stone having the initials S.L.C. on it. The broken headstone of Seth Lewis Conrad lies just to the west of this base and five feet or so further east is its presumed base, the middle one of the five bases in a row. A total of five additional, small, probable foot stones are scattered about the area, none of them being upright and embedded in the earth. Of those five, four have initials carved into one face. However, the initials only match one of the headstones in the vicinity, that being M.O.C. Two of the other three foot stones have the initials J.C. inscribed on them, while the third has L.C. on it. The stone marked L.C. might refer to George Conrad’s daughter Lucinda who is recorded in the family as a 21 year old in the 1860 census, but is not mentioned in the 1870 census. One of the stones inscribed with the initials J.C. may belong to George’s son Joseph who is recorded as a two-month-old infant in the 1860 census but is not mentioned in the 1870 census. The other stone inscribed with the initials J.C. is undoubtedly George’s second wife, Juliann (or Julia Ann). I suspect that it is the small foot stone that is resting against a tree at the southern end of George W.’s family plot. Roughly eight feet to the west of it is a base with the stub of a headstone imbedded in it. The remainder of the headstone was not found. This base is about four feet south of the base and headstone of Minurvey O. Conrad, Juliann’s only child. Goslin in 1971 [CG-1971] apparently saw a headstone for Juliann for he has the following transcription in his notes: Juliann Conrad, d. Aug. 7, 1858, ae 40y 2m 7d. Wife of C.W. Conrad [for C read G]. No one else has transcribed this headstone. Additional Comments: The Abandoned Conrad/Cardiff/Harper Cemetery Location: This abandoned burying ground is located in the woods on private land off Buckeye-Troxel Road, between the villages of Sugar Grove and Rockbridge in Good Hope Township, Hocking County, Ohio [coordinates: 39o 30' 01" N, 82o 31' 40" W]. Christopher Conrad obtained the original patent for the parcel of land on which it is located [the eastern half of the northwest quadrant of Tp. 13, Range 18, Section 14] in 1826 and that same parcel was owned by his son Henry Conrad in 1876. The earliest dated interment is October 28, 1832, the latest, Henry's, is October 11, 1902. Headstone Inscriptions: Several previous transcriptions available either on-line or in print have been made of some or all of the headstones in this burying ground. James L. Murphy contributed a file on 22 November 2007 to the USGenWeb Archives of transcriptions apparently made in 1983 [herein referred to as JLM-1983]. He, in turn, refers to notes recorded by Charles Goslin on 24 April 1971 [CG-1971]. There is a 2007 published compilation by Eileen Love Beavers, entitled Cemeteries of Good Hope Township, Hocking County, Ohio that includes tombstone inscriptions for the Conrad Cemetery [ELB-2007]. There is also another compilation of the same name, this time done by Robert and Clara Mae Redd [R&CMR], which was published by the Hocking County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society. It contains not only their transcription of these headstones, but also some additions and corrections supplied by Craig Weaver from transcriptions he made in 1972 [CW-1972], as well as a separate listing by Gerald Flowers dated 2 February 1998 [GF-1998]. However, there are significant errors and/or omissions in these six transcriptions thus prompting this effort to resolve the conflicting data and provide a more encompassing record of the burying ground. To this end the burying ground was visited by the two transcribers listed above six times during the fall of 2007 and the spring of 2008. Except where noted below, all headstones are now lying on the ground with their often moss-covered, inscribed surfaces facing upwards, one being a considerable distance from it's presumed base. However, the general arrangement of those headstones, together with accompanying bases and foot stones, suggests that the burying ground was laid out according to Christian custom, with bodies being interred in an east/west direction, their heads placed to the west. Line breaks for the inscriptions are denoted by slashes [/] in the transcriptions below. These transcriptions were based upon visual inspection by the two of us, analysis of multiple photographs of each headstone taken under different lighting conditions and, where necessary to resolve difficult renderings, by rubbings. Variant renditions of transcriptions by those noted in the previous paragraph are noted where appropriate. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/hocking/photos/tombstones/abandonedconradc/conrad2105ph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 6.0 Kb