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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."

Monday, February 9, 2026

Sharing from "News on the Green" - Trumbull County, Ohio - Presentation - Brookfield Historical Society - Thursday - February 12, 2026 at 7:00p.m. - Briceland Funeral Home

                                      "News on the Green"

Trumbull County, Ohio
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"Samantha Ensminger of the Trumbull County Tourism Bureau will present a program on gravestone carver Elijah Sikes for the Brookfield Historical Society at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12 at Briceland funeral home, 379 Route 7, Brookfield.

Sikes was born in 1772 in Belchertown, Mass., according to an entry on findagrave.com He learned gravestone carving from his father and practiced at several sites in New England.

In about 1828, Sikes and his wife, Lucretia, moved to Brookfield, where he continued carving. He died in 1855 and is buried in Brookfield Township Cemetery, where some of his stones can be seen. He carved more than 900 stones for graves in Massachusetts, Ohio, Connecticut and Vermont, according to Find a Grave."
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