Sharing new photos of the Walnut Grove Cemetery AKA Butcher Cemetery in North Lewisburg, Champaign County, Ohio and taking a look back at earlier ones.

Thanking Nathan Holycross for taking the May 14, 2021 photographs below during a visit to the Butcher AKA Walnut Grove Cemetery in North Lewisburg. They are helpful to see also for comparison purposes to photographs taken from earlier dates. 

May14, 2021 - Photo of Butcher Cemetery sign above

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In the photograph below, the white marble monument on the right with a bible or prayer book on top of it, was erected for Aaron and Adaline D. Limes Winder Winder Ballinger Dailey. 

Also, on the right side of the monument is an inscription for Aaron and Adaline's grand-daughter, Birddie B. Sherrett.

To the left of their taller monument is the smaller monument on a base for their daughter, Phebe Annie Winder Sherrett. Birddie B. Sherrett's small marker sits between them. 

Phebe Annie was the first wife of Eli Sherrett who is buried at the nearby Maple Grove Cemetery in Rush Township. 

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The July 2, 2017 photo below was taken by this author who was standing between the Winder monument and the Sherrett markers following a clean up of the weeds around them.  Also the monument and markers themselves were cleaned with D/2 Biological Solution and rinsed. 

"This Place Matters"

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The photo taken May 14, 2021 below shows the tall black granite monument for Dr. John Milton Butcher and his wife Nancy Brock Butcher. 

The flat marker to the left was installed in June 2020 is for Dr. William H. Wagstaff who served as a Commissary Sergeant in Co. E of the 54th Regiment of the Indiana Infantry.

The flat marker to the right also installed in June 2020, is for Captain James M S Butcher, who served also in the Civil War attaining the rank of Captain of Co. I of the 30th Regiment of the Indiana Infantry.   

Below is the same scene and two close up photos of the two new veteran's markers courtesy of Christine Roby - June 8, 2020 - following the installation of the two new flat markers.

Below is a May 14, 2021 photograph of a large dead limb that has cracked off from the tree and is lying on the ground on a sloping area of the Butcher Cemetery.  Low lying branches from the tree can be seen. 

Also, a partial view of a tree in a photo from May 14, 2021 that needs pruning of its long overhanging branches. 

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The above two photos show the fenced in area in the front of the Butcher Cemetery.  

The damaged wrought iron fence has badly deteriorated over the years.  There are a lot of dead tree limbs and branches lying on the ground both inside and outside of it that need to be gathered up and removed.  

Martha Matilda Abrams McClung is one of the two known burials in this area. The other burial is for a 20 day infant, little Charlie Chappell.

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Below is a photograph taken by this author in June of 2017 of the fenced in area when it was in better condition.:  

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Below are among my most favorite photographs! 

To the left is a photograph of Mr. Richard Holycross, father of Nathan Holycross, and myself.  To the right is a close-up view of the repaired and re-set Mary E. Good monument that Mr. Holycross completed a few months earlier.  

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It is my hope that the Village of North Lewisburg will resume regularly scheduled maintenance at the Butcher Cemetery.  It is the town's early settler burial ground that gave it the start it needed to grow and proper. 

To lose any more history due to apathy and neglect would certainly become a major loss for the community, and for those who are eager to see its integrity protected and preserved.  So much history is alive at cemeteries.  Those that came before us deserve our respect and our willingness to pass their legacy on to future generations. 

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

By

Sir William Ewart Gladstone

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."

Seven of those now almost lost souls buried at the Butcher Cemetery were Civil War veterans.  

Of those seven known veterans, five have had government markers at their gravesites.:  

Pvt. Harrison Apple - 

Co. H 66th Regiment OVI , Corp. 

Corp. William Apple - 

 Co. H 66th Regiment OVI

Pvt. Charles E. "C. E." Evans -

 Co. C 137th Regiment OVI - 

his grave marker has almost now sunken out of sight

Pvt. Loda Jones, - Co. D 13th Regiment OVI - 

his grave marker is lying on the ground

 

Pvt. William Tribbett - 

Co. A 9th Indiana VI, and Co. M 11th Indiana VC

Below are the new markers at the Butcher Cemetery!

Newly installed flate granite marker for 

Captain James M. S. Butcher - Co. I 30 Indiana Infantry

 Captain James M. S. Butcher

Born:  October 4, 1837

Died:  December 1, 1865

Served in Co. "I" 30th Indiana Infantry

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Census Records below

 

Newly installed flat granite marker for 

Comsy Serg. Co. E 54 Indiana Inf

William H. Wagstaff

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

Dr. John Milton Butcher

and his wife Nancy Brock Butcher

Spotlighting Captain James M. S. Butcher - Co. "I" of the 30th Regiment of the Indiana Volunteer Infantry - Civil War - Buried at the Butcher Cemetery in North Lewisburg, Ohio

"Captain James M. S. Butcher - 

He left more than 'His Mark' behind as his legacy."
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Letters written in his own hand

Captain James M. S. Butcher;

"Reel # 942, page 19, Series M653, of the 1860 U.S. Federal Census: the Butcher family is shown residing in North Lewisburg (Lewisburgh). 

John M. Butcher's age was 42, and occupation is shown as physician. 

Nancy age 35; male, J. M. S., age 22, occupation listed as "teacher of penmanship"; female, M. J. age 20, occupation listed as "school teacher"; female, E. A., age 17; male, J. C., age 15 and Minerva Helms, age 4.

 

Even though Captain James M. S. Butcher led a short life, dying at age 28, he left a legacy that should not be forgotten.

Per Butcher family bible records, James M. S. Butcher was the son of John Milton Butcher and Mary Ann Johnson Butcher.   *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Dr. John Milton Butcher was married twice. First, to Mary Ann Johnson who was born on December 15, 1816. They married on December 8, 1836. Mary Ann Johnson Butcher died on February 10, 1842. 

On February 23, 1843, Dr. John Milton Butcher married Nancy Brock who was born on September 22, 1823. Nancy Brock Butcher died on August 8, 1898.

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James M.S. Butcher was Mustered-In as a 1st Sergeant on September 24, 1861 at Fort Wayne, Indiana for 3 years. During his time fighting in the Civil War, he was promoted several times; finally becoming a Captain. 

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Captain James M. S. Butcher was wounded 

at Murfreesboro or Stone River, Tennessee - December 30 to January 3, 1863

 

Captain James M. S. Butcher suffered a gun shot wound of his left hand.   

January 8, 1863 

Captain James M. S. Butcher was wounded at Chickamauga - contusion of the ankle joint.  

September 19-20 1863

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Above is a fragment of the gravemarker
for Captain James M. S. Butcher
at the Butcher 
AKA Walnut Grove Cemetery
in North Lewisburg, Ohio