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"A cemetery may be considered as abandoned when all or practically all of the bodies have been Removed therefrom and no bodies have been buried therein for a great many years, and the cemetery has been so long neglected as entirely to lose its identity as such, and is no longer known, recognized and respected by the public as a cemetery. 1953 OAG 2978."

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Two Civil War veterans receive long overdue grave markers at the Butcher (AKA Walnut Grove) Cemetery in North Lewisburg, Champaign County, Ohio

The Butcher Cemetery, originally named the Walnut Grove Cemetery, located in North Lewisburg, Champaign County, Ohio lists 100 memorials for it on the website "Find A Grave."
Of those seven known veterans, five have had government markers at their gravesites.:  
his grave marker has almost now sunken out of sight
his grave marker is lying on the ground
 
Below are the new markers at the Butcher Cemetery!
Born:  October 4, 1837
Died:  December 1, 1865
Served in Co. "I" 30th Indiana Infantry
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Census Records below
 
Commissary Sergeant William H. Wagstaff
Born:  November 27, 1828
Died: May 6, 1904
 
Left flat marker:
 Commissary Sargeant William H. Wagstaff's marker
Right flat marker:
Captain James M. S. Butcher
Large black monument
and his wife Nancy Brock Butcher
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