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Welcome to my blog about cemetery preservation in the Great State of Ohio! Thanks to so many wonderful people, many of whom are volunteers, Ohio's burial grounds - large and small - in cities and in obscure places, are being improved one by one.

Almost forgotten gravesites are being located; and stories of our ancestors are again being told.




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"Show me the manner in which a nation cares for its dead, and I will measure with mathmatical exactness the tender mercies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their loyalty to high ideals."

By William Gladstone

"A cemetery shelters so much love, hate, desire, greed, averse, disappointment, friendship ---- all lie buried here.
All passions are stilled, all tumult ended. Peace reigns here forever.
Death is here, yet it is not here. It is the silent City of the Dead, yet it is a living, breathing thing.
Those we love cannot die as long as they live in our hearts."

Author Unknown


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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Spotlighting Martha Ann Spain Bishop buried at the Maple Grove Cemetery in North Lewisburg, Champaign County, Ohio

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Monument for William Wilson and his wife, Martha Ann Spain Bishop Wilson.  
 Photograph courtesy of Mr. Ralph Lowell Coleman, Jr.  
Ralph also has provided her burial location in Maple Grove Cemetery:  Square 70, Lot 3, Site 2.

Martha Ann Spain Bishop Wilson was a daughter of Joshua Spain and Mary Inskeep Spain who were buried at the nearby Butcher Cemetery.   

Martha first married married Henry Bishop on August 24, 1854.  He died on April 25, 1880. 

The two children of Martha and Henry were buried with Henry at the Butcher Cemetery.  

Daughter, Emma F. Bishop, died on February 16, 1865.  She was a little more than a year old.  

Son, William A. Bishop, was about 7 years and 8 months old when he died.  All their inscriptions are on the Spain monument at the Butcher Cemetery.  

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