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Dave & Lyn Hargreave david.hargreave@wmich.edu May 26, 2008, 4:25 am

Cemetery:           The Abandoned Conrad/Cardiff/Harper Cemetery
Name:               Family Plot Harper

Date Of Photograph: 2007 & 2008
Photo can be seen at:
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4.  Harper family plot, looking south.  Samuel's foot stone in foreground with
Enoch's headstone immediately behind it.  Presumed base for Enoch's headstone in
background with James? headstone to the right of it.  Enoch's foot stone in
front of the base.


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.  


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