[From an unidentified, undated newspaper clipping. Some errors are evident.]
There are 90 Revolutionary war soldiers buried in Washington county according to records of Marietta Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. There may be and probably are other Revolutionary soldiers buried in the county, but after many years of painstaking research, the chapter has been unable to learn of them. All the graves that are known are marked with a Revolutionary marker. It is said that there are more Revolutionary war officers in Mound cemetery than in any other cemetery in the country.
General Rufus Putnam is buried in Mound cemetery and his name is one on the gate way.
Colonel Israel Putnam lies in Putnam lot in Belpre cemetery.
Col. Ebenezer Sproat, first Sheriff in the Northwest territory is in Mound cemetery.
Commodore Abraham Whipple, who was the first to fly the American flag on the Thames, is in Mound cemetery.
Col. Ebenezer Battelle is in Newport.
Major Robert Bradford, in the Ohio Company’s burying ground at Belpre.
John Brown, who was in the battle of Bunker Hill, is buried on the Schantz farm three miles above Lowell.
Christopher Burlingame, who was in Washington’s army at the crossing of the Delaware is in Harmar cemetery.
Silas Bent is in Belpre cemetery.
John Cole, descendant of the first owner of Plymouth Rock, is in Gravel Bank cemetery.
Major Asa Coburn is buried in the neighborhood of Wolf Creek Mills.
Heman Chapman is in Hoagland cemetery, Barlow township.
Eleazer Curtis is in Newbury cemetery.
Col. Nathaniel Cushing, the original proprietor of Lot 27, the site of Farmers’ Castle, is buried at Belpre.
Capt. William Dana, of Bunker Hill fame, is in the Ohio Company’s burying ground at Belpre.
Capt. Daniel Davis, died at Beverly, and his grave is unknown.
Simeon Deming is buried on what was his farm two and a half miles east of Waterford.
Jonathan Devol, who built the Mayflower, is buried in Putnam cemetery.
Thomas Dickerson is buried at New Matamoras.
Jonathan Dunham, son of the first preacher at Martha’s Vineyard is buried in Dunham township.
Nathaniel Dodge is in Mound cemetery.
Col. Daniel Fisher is in Belpre cemetery.
Sherebiah Fletcher is in Belpre cemetery.
Capt. William Ford is buried in Waterman’s graveyard near Waterford.
Ephraim Foster, who marched to Quebec with Arnold, and who fought at Brandywine, is in Mound cemetery.
Peregrine Foster, who had the first franchise for a ferry at Belpre, is in Belpre cemetery.
Henry Franks, ancestor of Misses Katherine and Rebekah Nye, is buried in Grandview township.
Benoni Goldsmith, one of the first settlers in Fearing township, is buried on the Spindler farm near Caywood.
Major Nathan Goodale, one of the minute men of the Revolution died at Belpre, and his grave is unknown.
William Gray, on whose wagon was inscribed, “For Ohio,” is buried in Waterford cemetery.
Duty Green is in a cemetery between Barlow and Waterford.
Griffin Greene is in Mound cemetery.
John Green is in Mound cemetery.
Jeremiah Greenway is buried in a small cemetery about 3-1/2 miles from Waterford.
Major Jonathan Haskell is in Belpre cemetery.
Captain Ira Hill is in Mt. Ephraim cemetery near Lower Salem.
William Hovey is in Mt. Ephraim cemetery.
Peter Howe is in Deming cemetery near Watertown.
Matthew Kerr, first resident of Kerr’s island, at Marietta, was killed by Indians at the mouth of Duck Creek, and his grave is unknown.
Capt. Zebulon King, lies in Belpre cemetery.
James Knowles is buried at Newbury.
Nathaniel Kidd is buried at Stanleyville.
John Leavens is buried on the Ohio river bank near Newbury.
Joseph Lincoln is in Mound cemetery.
Captain Nathaniel Little is in Newport cemetery.
Daniel Loring in Belpre cemetery.
Andrew McCallister in Mound cemetery.
Henry Middleswart is in an old cemetery at Lower Newport.
Capt. Josiah Munro in Mound cemetery.
Capt. Benjamin Miles at Belpre.
Elias Newton, in Harmar cemetery.
Ichabod Nye, in Mound cemetery.
Col. Robert Oliver is buried near Waterford.
Alexander Oliver is buried at Belpre.
Maj. Samuel H. Parsons, one of the first judges of the Supreme Court of the Northwest territory was drowned, and his body not recovered.
Capt. Stanton Prentiss, a wagon master and later Captain in LaFayette’s army, is in Mound cemetery.
Nathaniel Rice is buried in Rainbow cemetery.
Oliver Rice is in Belpre cemetery.
Captain Joseph Rogers is in Mound cemetery.
Peter Shaw is in Round Bottom cemetery.
Benjamin Shaw is in Round Bottom cemetery.
Capt. Nathaniel Saltonstall is in Mound cemetery.
Capt. Enoch Shepherd is in Mound cemetery.
Abel Sherman is in Round Bottom cemetery.
Joseph Simons is buried near Lowell.
Noah Sparhawk is in Belpre cemetery.
Major Joshua Sprague is in Sprague family cemetery in Adams township.
Col. William Stacy is in Mound cemetery.
Thomas Stanley is in Stanleyville cemetery.
Israel Stone is in Rainbow cemetery.
Captain Jonathan Stone, who commanded a company in Shay’s Rebellion is buried in the Stone lot in Belpre cemetery.
Richard Talbot is in Carson’s cemetery, Grandview township.
Col. Robert Taylor is in Mound cemetery.
Ephraim Trew is in Mt. Ephraim cemetery.
Jabez True is in Mound cemetery.
Anselm Tupper is in Mound cemetery.
General Benjamin Tupper was buried in northeast block house, Campus Martius and later in Mound cemetery.
General James Varnum is in Oak Grove cemetery.
Major Haffield White is in Cedar Ridge cemetery.
Oliver Woodward is in Yankeeburg cemetery.
Michael Devin is buried on the Beckett farm near Waterford, the farm now owned by former sheriff Elmer Roberts.
Allen Putnam is buried in Fearing township.
James Owen on a farm opposite Lowell.
General James Lawrence Plover, in Harmar cemetery.
Richard Doane, near Mt. Ephraim cemetery.
Josiah Hart died in Lowell and his grave is unknown.
Sala Bosworth’s grave is unknown in a Marietta cemetery.
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Matthew Kerr was originally buried on Kerr's Island, but later on was reinterred in Mount Cemetery, Marietta, Ohio.
When we visited Ohio in June, we went to Salem to find our Alden/Gould/Hovey ancestors in the Mt. Ephraim Cemetery. Interestingly, no one in the entire small, almost deserted, town knew where the cemetery was. I suggest the Historial Society do some P.R. work in Salem with local officials to make them aware of this historic cemetery out of town. It's definitely worth a visit and historically quite significant.
Connie Jones Pillsbury, California
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