The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-01-26
NEGLECTED. BURIAL
PLACES NEAR
LOUISVILLE
Farmers Till the Fertile
Soil
OVER RESTING PLACES

Louisville, Jan. 24.--Mr. and Mrs. d.
s. Blum spent Sunday with friends in
Akron.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Brechner, of klli-
ance, visited at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. I. Klingaman on East Main
street yesterday. .U
Frank Starkey, of Robertsvilie, was
business caller in town Saturday.
Mrs. M. Lentz of Maximo is visiting
at the home Of her son, Allen Lentz,
on Washington avenue. saa
Owing to the changing of the track
where a cut has been made on the
Stark Electric line at the.iWeaver hill,
east of Maximo, the electric cars have
been more or. less delayed during the
last few days -. t5 3ono
We are all more or less interested
In the "Old Landmark articles by
John Danner that appear in the Morn
ing News from time to time. They
take US back to the early history of
Canton and vicinity and give us an op-
portunity to note our continual and
Danner publish these articles in book
form, as we think it would meet a
ready sale in Canton and Stark county
The "Old Landmark" articles suggest
to us that we also have some "old
landmarks" in our vicinity, which we
expect to notice occasionally. Howev-
or, we shall warn the readers of the
tpo hat -
pect anything as elaborate as Mr.. Dan
ner gives us, as our limited experience
in writing will not warrant anything
Of the kind. We will first speak of
"ialdmarks" In the shape of cemeter-
les. At present there are eight ceme-
teries or places where interments are
made in Nimishillen township, which,
by the way, are all outside the corpor-
ate limits of the village of Louisville,
as there exists an ordinance prohibit
ing any interments in any of the three
cemeteries within the village limits
Thesc-burial places or cemeteries in
which interments are still made are at
Mt. Zion church, northwest of town,
at the Warner church, the Catholic
cemetery at Barryville, the Catholic
cemetery near Louisville, the Amish
church, northeast Of town, at Fair
hopes and at the Union cemetery east of
Besides the three burial places in our
village we could mention eight others
located in different parts of the town
ship in which interments have ceased
In some of them nothing remains not
even the head stone to mark their To-
cation, and farmers owning the land
on which they are located plow and till
the soil over these graves, not seeming
to have much regard for the last rest
ing places of some OF tic | Jneers of
this township. One, hover TO which
we wish to call attention and which is
still enclosed by the old board fence,
and is overgrown with briars and trees,
is located west of Barryville, on the
Joseph Bacher farm. This burial place
is located on beautiful knoll at the
head Of one of the north branches of
the Nimishillen, and may be regarded
az the pioneer grave yard of the town
ship, formerly known as the Matthias
graveyard" Here the graves Of num-
ber Of the Matthias family who were
among the very first settlers of this
township.
AS we have stated, this place is over
grown with shrubbery. and no farmer
has yet attempted to farm this spot of
ground. as we have been informed that
all deeds for this farm reserves this
spot as burial place as well as a road
way leading to 1t from the Canton and
Harrisburg road Some of the remains
have beer removed from this place by
relatives of the departed and inferred in
other cemeteries which are kept up by
organizations. But quite number of
head stones may be seen there that
mark the early pioneers graves. Mem
bers OF the Hoke, Smith, Brown, Gilbert
and Matthias families and other early
settlers. This may be truly called the
pioneer burial place of this township as
II is here 'if- lsral ~
'Beneath those rugged elms that shrub
bery's shade "''e
Where heayes the turf in many a
mQuldering heap,
Ettcn IN MS ndTroW cell forever laid
The rude forefathers OF the hamlet
Sleep"
There being no one to take the mat
tsr In hand we feel safe In predicting
that this pioneer burial place will share
a similar fate to those we have men,
toned, and time will eventually come
when this little sand knoll graveyard
will be titled as are the surrounding
fields.
Continuing our landmarks we will
try TO give the readers of the News
short history of our rural schools and
shall be extremely obliged to any Of its
readers for any information they may
be pleased to give us in regard to the
history OF their respective schools.