Thanks to websites on the internet, we can explore where our ancestors were buried, or re-buried, from anywhere if we know the right ones to research. One good website is "ChroniclingAmerica"
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THE NEWS HERALD
ESTABLISHED 1837
HILLSBORO, OHIO
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1907
VOL. 71-- NO. 38
Front Page:
“On Tuesday of this week Mr. Pricer, the sexton of the Greenfield cemetery went out
to the Rock Springs Cemetery, near New Petersburg, and took up the remains of
the following three persons and interred them in the Greenfield Cemetery. John
W. Duffield, father of Messrs Joseph and Daniel of this city who died forty two
years ago. Mrs. Joseph Duffield, whose maiden name was Miss Lizzie Brown, whose
girlhood was spent at Russell, Ohio, her father, John Brown, had charge of the
pumping station on the B. & O. at Russell, Mrs. Daniel Duffield, formerly
Miss Ruth McWilliams, daughter of the late Ford McWilliams.
Both women died about slxteen years ago, within three months time. But
little was left of two of the bodies as they had returned to dust, but the body
of Mrs. Joseph Duffield was in a better state of preservation.”
The lower extremities from the hips down had become petrified and were
firm and solid Greenfield Journal.
SOURCE: ChroniclingAmerica
