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Smithfield Township - Victorian Era Found (79 Images) - Images Need Identified. we are seeking help identifying the photos. They were found by Howard McClurg in the basement of the Smithfield Historical Society in 2017. We are making them available to help with identification and to share them with those that might have connections to these families... Email us at jeffersoncounty1@att.net if you can assist with any identification.
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Smithfield Historical Society Contact Person |
Smithfield area cemetery and genealogies can be located at the following website: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/d/a/v/Dale-Alan-Davidson/PDFGENE1.pdf |
Smithfield Bethel Children's Home History |
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Above: Terry Hosenfeld, left lifting a large tombstone using a tri-pod and strap. John Borkowski, right and several inmates and community service workers, assisting. Holmes Pioneer Cemetery, Smithfield Twp. |
Above: Tombstone reset which is a Carter family member. It was face down and we were unable |
To help chapter members and anyone else that may not understand the magnitude and mission of the Chapter Cemetery Preservation – Restoration Committee, we include the photos below. Flora VerStraten and Tammy Hosenfeld took these photos in Holmes Cemetery in late September of 2007. These photos are examples of our ability to save not only old pioneer tombstones, but to lift, reset, save, and read more modern tombstones. Those tombstones made of granite, that sit on unlevel ground tend to slide from their bases and may remain face down for decades. It is important to read these tombstones. If our chapter were not involved with the preservation-restoration portion of this project, many newer tombstones (dating 1900 up), with legible inscriptions now, would be gone in just a few short years. The two stage photos show how this is done. We don’t have access to large machines to lift tombstones. This is all done with volunteer manpower and includes using jacks, a tripod, sling, and a lot of manual labor!
Category: Ohio physical, cultural and historic features; Feature Name: Holmes Cemetery, Type: Cultural, Class: Cemetery, County: Jefferson, FID: 1041676, Coordinates: Latitude 40.2184029 and Longitude -80.8525882.
SCOTT FAMILIES
Scott/Dougherty/Stringer/Bines/Haynes/McKendry and Allied Families
Cemetery Tombstone Inscriptions
| Piney Fork Cemetery Tombstone Index | Piney Fork Cemetery Tombstone Inscriptions |
| Northern Cemetery Deeds 1 - Extracted from the original deeds. Typed by chapter member, Kitty Kutchmark March 2010. | Northern Cemetery Deeds 2 - Deeds Purchased from 1900 on. Typed by Kitty Kutchmark March 2010. |
| Northern Cemetery Death Records - Kept by the Northern Cemetery Board and Sexton. Copied from the original ledger by Kitty Kutchmark March 2010. | Piney Fork Cemetery Tombstone Verses |
| Rehoboth Cemetery (Excel) Inscriptions read by chapter member, Tammy Hosenfeld Submitted June 2013 |
Cemetery Tombstone Photos
| Northern Cemetery | Piney Fork Cemetery |
Google Earth Cemetery Images
| Adena Presbyterian Church Cemetery | Northern Cemetery | Rehoboth Church Cemetery |
| Francis Private Cemetery | Piney Fork Church Cemetery | St.Casimir Catholic Cemetery |
| Holmes Pioneer Cemetery | Quaker Church Cemetery | Wheeler Church 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 | Smithfield High School 1885 - 1972 |
| Rehoboth School - 1931-1932 | York School |
| Smithfield School Abt. 1914-1915 | Parlett, Ohio, Bell School about 1925 |
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