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From: "Gloria Motter" <>
Subject: [OH-MEM] TOMBSTONES REST AS A FAMILY-surname Jewell
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 18:11:15 -0500

I am pssing along this in hopes someone can claim these stones. The following article made the front page of The News-Herald on October 19, 2002 in... Lake County, Willoughby, OH email www.news-herald-com. by staff writer.. John Arthur Hutchinson There are two pictures in the article.

TOMBSTONES REST AS A FAMILY...

It has been 187 years since little Sally Jewell died, but her memory was
kept alive Friday. So was the memory of her brother, Whitney, a sibling Sally never knew because he was born after she died.

The children were remembered because their tombstones were officially laid to rest beside their parents at Painesville Township Cemetery, also referred to as Blish Cemetery, on Mentor Avenue.
The stones were discovered in 2001 on a 30 acre property in Concord Township set to be developed by Hermitage Bluffs Subdivision.

Both stones were found broken and lying on the ground in the woods. No remains were ever located at the site, especially because so much time had passed since the children died.

The developer of the Concord Township property, Don Whitaker, sought to protect the tombstone site from development until a permaent decision was made about what to do with the headstones.

Whitaker and genealogical officals tracked down documetatiomn from Morley Library in Painesville and discovered the children's parents were burried at the Painesville Township cemetery.

Their father, Luther Jewell, died in 1860 at age 71, and mother, Olive
Jewell, died in 1871 at age 80.

After a lengthy search, no kin of the Jewells could be located.
It was decided the two small children's tombstones would be repaired by the Potti Monument Co. in Painesville and placed alongside their parents remais in Painesville Township.

Historians, members of the Lake County Genealogical Society and Morley Library in Painesville also tried to find out the religious affiliation of the Jewell family, but were unsuccessful.

The Rev. Norm Davis of St. Gabriel Catholic Church in Concord Township was asked to perform the short ceremony when
the tombstones were finally laid to rest.

"Sally and Whitney Jewell were lost in death as they were lost in life at a
very young age," Davis said while standing beside the childrens graves. "Today, we are trying to restore the family unity to two small cildren that have been away from family for almost two centuries. The life which these children received from their parents, Luther and Olive, is not destroyed by death."

Davis sprinkled dirt on the tombstones from the Concord Township parcel where the tombstones were originally discovered.
Cynthia Turk of the Lake County Genealogical Society, was glad to have somesort of closure.

"Genealogically, if these stones were gone there'd be no record of them,"
Turk said. "Their family suffered a loss and went to the expense to
remember them."
Whitaker said everything has worked out for everyone's best interest.
"We always intended to do the right thing and never intended to desecrate
the stones," he said.

SHARING works.... try it..... just once...
you could reap the benefits ! ! ! ! !.
Gloria
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