Editors Register:
The place, used as a burying ground by the early settlers of Lower Belpre is near the river bank on the farm of Edwin Guthrie [Newbury Cemetery, Little Hocking]. Many persons were buried there who left no descendants here, but the spot has been kept sacred by Mr. Guthrie to this day. Among those whose remains lie there are Mrs. Denham and two children, who were killed and scalped by the Indians only a few rods from the spot where they were buried; and Mr. and Mrs. Spacht, grandparents of the Humphrey family.
Lately, Mr. Shepard Humphrey and his brother of Troy Township, Athens County, and Selden Humphrey of Meigs County, have had a fine monument erected at a cost of one hundred and fifty dollars on this early resting place of the dead, bearing this inscription:
Pioneers
of
Ohio.
Anthony Spacht,
and his wife
Catharine.
Hannah
wife of
Joseph Guthrie.
____ Stratton.
____ Bliss.
____ Denham.
One woman and two children killed by the Indians. These and some others, names not remembered, died, and were buried, near this spot, between 1790 and 1810. Erected by some of their descendants as a token of their memory.
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