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Smithfield Historical Society
P.O.Box 192
1313 Main St
Smithfield, Ohio 43948

Contact Person
Martha/John Domenick
740-733-7196

 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

Churches & Cemeteries
Wheeler Church Cemetery

Smithfield Township
Jefferson County, Ohio


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Category: Ohio physical, cultural and historic features; Feature Name: Wheeler Cemetery, Type: Cultural, Class: Cemetery, County: Jefferson, FID: 1047845, Coordinates: Latitude 40.2453475 and Longitude -80.7995294.

SMITHFIELD CEMETERY UPDATES

  • Wheeler Cemetery - Bill Cermak, (Smithfield Township Trustee) along with his wife and a few boy scouts have been actively cleaning up Wheeler Cemetery since 2003. They completed the removal of large bush and dead trees in the fall of 2004. Bill contacted me in Oct. and stated that the cemetery is completely cleared of brush, weeds and debris piles. We will begin probing and reading tombstone inscriptions in the early spring. The first time we probed we found a large ornate tombstones dating back to the early 1820's. We are looking forward to probing, reading tombstones, and restoring this very old pioneer cemetery. Mr. "Applejack" Welday (a direct descendants of the Wheeler and Welday families) who is over 90 years old, walked down the hill to the cemetery when we were probing back in the spring of 2006. We met Ann Grayzar, and a few of Ann's relatives, along with John Borkowski. Plans to continue work at this location are slated. (Report given by Flora L. VerStraten)

SEARCHING FOR DEEDS

  • Deed – E pg. 410: James Wheeler to Methodist Episcopal Church (Smithfield Twp. 1st M.E. Church)

  • James Wheeler – was born March 31, 1785 near Baltimore, Maryland. In about 1796 he came to Wellsburg, VA (now WV), with his parents. They soon moved on to Lexington, KY, then back to Maryland in about 1805. At this time, James married Elizabeth Cramblet, daughter of Joseph Cramblett and in 1810 came to Smithfield Township. Here he reared six children: Reason, Susan (Penell), Eliza (Scott), Ann (Parr), John, and Marrah (Logan). James married his second wife, Mary Stiers of Harrison County, Ohio and had six more children: Mary (McCance), Rebecca (Judkins), and Asseneth (Gasaway) and three children died. The father of James Wheeler was Benjamin Wheeler and the parents of Mary Stiers were Jacob and Mary Stiers. Their son, John was born February 3, 1817 and married Hannah Moore, who was born in 1822, daughter of Nathaniel and Susan Moore. They were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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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