Old Families Still Factors Here

 The Marietta Daily Times, November 9, 1934

Three descendants of soldiers of the War of the Revolution, who later became early pioneers of this section, were candidates for election to Washington County offices at the election on Tuesday. This interesting and perhaps unprecedented fact is called to our attention by Mrs. E. W. Hill, Sr. Evidence that the militant and pioneering spirit has persisted down through the generations since the settlement of this area is furnished by the fact that two of the three members of these old families were successful at the polls.

In historic Mound Cemetery may be found this inscription: "General Rufus Putnam, a Revolutionary officer and leader of the colony which made the first settlement in the Northwest, April 7, 1788. Born April 9, 1738. Died May 4, 1824. The memory of the just is blessed." Arthur D. Mackey, who led the Republican ticket in the number of votes received and was elected sheriff by an overwhelming plurality, is a descendant of General Putnam, who has been called the "founder and father of Ohio."

On another stone is this inscription: "Colonel William Stacy, Revolutionary soldier. Born in Massachusetts, 1730. Came to Marietta, 1788. Proprietor in Ohio Company. Foreman of first grand jury in Ohio. Died in Marietta, Ohio, in 1802." Colonel Stacy was a prisoner of Indians for four years and was saved from being burned at the stake by giving an Indian chief the Masonic sign. Lloyd S. Stacy of Adams Township, who was chosen to represent Washington County in the lower house of the General Assembly, is a descendant of this brave soldier and pioneer.

Another marker in the cemetery bears this inscription: "In memory of Colonel Robert Taylor, who departed this life September 30, 1801, in the sixty-fifth year of his age, being the first interment in this burying ground." This Revolutionary War soldier and early pioneer here was one of the ancestors of Ezra Racer Miller, who was candidate for county auditor on the Republican ticket.