Wyandot County OHArchives - Unknown Cemetery
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Unknown Cemetery

Located in Tymochtee township.

From the Tombstone Inscriptions from Cemeteries in Tymochtee Township Wyandot 
County, Ohio.........
 
"About 1978, my father and I set some turtle lines in Tymochtee Creek in the 
southwest quarter of Section 18.  One day we tied the boat near an old house on the 
south bank and just east of Township Highway 107.  There was a ravine between the 
road and the house, which is now a pond.  The lane went down through this ravine to 
the house and barn.  We had probably tied the boat at the mouth of this ravine 
because the bank was too steep to climb elsewhere.  When we returned, I think we 
parked in the barnyard because I remember looking at the front of this small, run-
down old house.  Jack Maloy, known as "Lobbo" was living there at the time.  To get 
to the creek, we walked behind the house to the creek bank and then down into the 
ravine.  Behind the house and near the steep bank, we noticed several old 
gravestones.  I think they were about 8 x 24 inches in size, and I don't remember if 
there were any legible names.  The underbrush was thick, and I wasn't interested in 
old gravestones at that time.  I remember 4 or 5 stones and a couple were still 
standing.  My father, Frederick J. Tanner of McCutchenville, remembers 7 or 8 
stones.  A few years later, another area resident, Willy Rettig, coon hunted quite 
often with a man named Ronald Hines, known as "Hoppy", who lived there.  Willy 
thought there were 3 or 4 stones, all lying on the ground.  In fact, he thought they 
were old building slabs of some sort.  Evidently, they were all down by this time, but 
his daughter Sherry Rettig also saw them.  She remembers several of them and 
says they were definitely gravestones.
 
The 1975 aerial photo of this place shows the old lane and barn very clearly.  The 
house was hidden by trees, but can be spotted if you know where it stood.  A large 
spruce tree, which stood in front of it, still remains near the new pond and can be 
seen on the aerial photo.  I don't know who was the first owner of this property was, 
but if it was a Kear, I would think he would be buried in the nearby Kear Cemetery.  
Nathan Kear deeded this property to his brother in 1857, but he lived in Salem 
Township.  He may have rented the place to a tenant farmer." L. D. Tanner, 10 Jan 
1996.