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Subject: Amanda Cemetery
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 14:49:53 EDT
Purely coincidental to the discussion earlier this week regarding Amanda
Cemetery and Peter Sheafor (Sr.), I just heard from a distant cousin who lives in
Ohio. She said --
"I just wanted you to know that, on the way back from taking my son to his
Miami University freshman orientation yesterday, we made an impulsive stop at
the Amanda cemetery in Middletown & found Peter Sheafor's grave. It's been
well taken care of and has a nice brass marker."
I remember stopping with my parents when I was in college (also at Miami)
and seeing Peter Sheafor, Jr.'s gravestone very near Peter Sheafor, Sr.'s. But
it's not there any more. There are a lot of broken-off headstones, so it
probably was one of those. Sad... but at least my son got to see his
great-great-great-great-great grandfather's gravestone. He was impressed that it said he
was a Revolutionary War soldier. Passing along a little bit of the past to
the next generation!"
Apparently Peter Jr.'s gravestone has been missing for a very long time
because the transcriptions of Amanda Cemetery do not include it. Peter Jr. d. May
2, 1818, Lemon Twp., Butler Co., OH, approx. age 37, leaving a young family of
4 children ages 12, 9, 8, and 3. He served in Colonel John DeLong's First
Regiment, Ohio Militia, during the War of 1812.
Hopefully her mother's boxes of genealogy records will include a photograph
of this missing stone when the family eventually has the opportunity of going
through those boxes that have been stored for nearly a decade. --Wilene in KS
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