Jefferson County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society

History

Churches & Cemeteries

Bacon Ridge Presbyterian Pioneer Church Register 1802-1931 (with years missing between 1872 to 1930)
Bacon Ridge Presbyterian Pioneer Church Register 1802-1931 (with years missing between 1872 to 1930).
Excel Format - The source is Indexed by Surname. The register includes infant baptisms (with birthdates and parents names) and much more genealogical information. The church relocated during the mid 1840's just a few miles up the road, still located in Ross Township to a location referred to as Shane/Shanetown/Lebanon. The old graveyard remained behind with some of the earliest burials remaining. The graveyard was neglected for many years and many of the early tombstones are missing, thrown away, sunken in the ground in pieces, or illegible. Once the church was relocated to Shane a new graveyard was located beside the new church. Currently as of 2013, there are no signs of either church except a few red bricks thrown in the woods nearby the old graveyard in the Bacon Ridge cemetery.

This was transcribed by Flora L. VerStraten-Merrin from original church records of Bacon Ridge Church. These records may be the only source of a child's birth or death. These records clarify how early the church and graveyard began as well as when other nearby churches sprung up - thus the term "dismissed" to other churches closer to where the pioneer lived

Cemetery Tombstone Inscriptions

Holt Cemetery Tombstone Index	Holt Cemetery Tombstone Inscriptions
Hilderbrand Cemetery Tombstone Index	Hilderbrand Cemetery Tombstone Inscriptions
Bacon Ridge/Montgomery Cemetery Tombstone Index Tombstone Inscriptions & Spreadsheet recorded by Flora L. VerStraten	Bacon Ridge/Montgomery Cemetery Tombstone Inscriptions Tombstone Inscriptions & Spreadsheet recorded by Flora L. VerStraten

Cemetery Tombstone Photos

Google Earth Cemetery Images

Bacon Ridge/Montgomery Cemetery	McClelland Farm Private Cemetery	Pine Grove Church Cemetery
Dorn Private Cemetery	Mooretown Methodist Episcopal Cemetery	Seever Private Cemetery
Hilderbrand/Hildebron/Hildenbrand Private Cemetery	Mooretown United Presbyterian Yellow Creek Cemetery	Shane/Lebanon Cemetery
McClain/McConnells Private Cemetery	Mt. Zion Methodist Church Cemetery	Wade Private Cemetery

Schools

Jefferson County Board of Education – 2023 Sunset Blvd., Steubenville, OH 43952. The county office has access to all students school records back to 1912 for Buckeye, Edison, and Indian Creek.
Jefferson County School Deeds	Elliott's One Room School
Ross Twp School History