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Robert M. Sizelove, Sr. ohiocempics@gmail.com March 7, 2008, 7:31 pm

Cemetery:           Old Nichols Cemetery
Name:               Anson Nichols

Date Of Photograph: June 2003
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Nichols Cemetery (extinct)
The approximate location is in a field, south of SR37 (Dublin Granville Rd.) and
east of CR39 (York Rd.), St. Albans Twp., Licking Co., Ohio. Earlier reports
from 1912 describe this cemetery at that time being extinct. “On the old Carter
farm, now Montgomery farm, was a family burial ground. Most of the slabs were
put in a pile and covered, but one still stands supported by broken fragments of
others merely to mark the spot.”
I spoke with an elderly resident of Alexandria in about 1999, that said she can
remember as a child, her father was a tenant farmer on the property near this
corner. She remembered sadly, that the owner of this property used many of the
memorial stones, turned on their back side as a floor in the basement of this
residence. The tenant house no longer exist, torn down and removed years ago,
and now there’s no physical evidence of the exact location. My personal research
has rendered no new evidence other than a visual reference made in extracts from
The “Old Northwest Genealogical Quarterly” made by a cemetery transcriber in
1912. I checked an atlas of St. Albans Township, published in 1854,  shows an L.
Carter owning lot number 30 & 31, consisting of many acres, located on the east
side of York Road, including both sides of what is now SR37, eastward from where
SR161 ends and stretching southward to almost Morse Road, so this family still
owned the land 20 years after the site was first thought to have began to be
used as a family burial ground. This land  containing the cemetery must have
become part of the Montgomery Farm, mentioned in the early report. Unsure who
owned the land when my source mentioned living there, but would estimate it to
have been in 1930’s.  The 100 year old record included the transcriptions of at
least four memorials, still readable and description of many more broken
fragments no longer readable, including the one surviving stone. Written
accounts indicate the cemetery was most likely used from about 1830’s to
early1840’s. It’s hard for me to visualize folks in this earlier time allowing
the greed of one farmer, to literally remove memorial stones and put a cemetery
under plow. In respect to the owners mentioned, I have no way of knowing what
owner actually destroyed the cemetery. The area is being changed yet again,
2008, due to recent road work in this area.  Several years ago, the  previous
owner of property located near this extinct cemetery site, found what is the
only surviving memorial stone that once stood on this cemetery. He was fortunate
enough to see it appear under the blade of a bulldozer, while they were doing
some grading work on property just south of his home years ago and thanks to the
quick action of this concerned neighbor, for his thoughtful rescue of this
stone.  This stone was at the time I took the photograph, located in the garage
of the Alexandria Museum on West Main St. I don’t remember the time period of
photograph, but would estimate it to be in mid 2003. R.M. Sizelove, Sr., 2 Mar.,
2008.

Nichols, In Memory of Anson, who died Aug. 25th AD, 1835, aged 27 Years, 9mo. &
25days
“Friends nor physicians could not save,
My mortal body from the grave;
Nor shall the grave confine me here,
When Christ invites…”[remaining verse broken off.]


Additional Comments:
About 1 mile south of Village of Alexandria,York Rd. & SR37, St. Albans Twp.,
Licking Co., Ohio.

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