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Submitted: 10/28/09 • Approved: 10/29/09 • Last Updated: 8/13/15 • R111875-G111875-S3
John H and Elizabeth (Snyder) Scherer share this marble gravestone.
The south face, shown here, is inscribed:
FATHER AND MOTHER
SCHERER
The east face is inscribed:
ELIZABETH SCHERER
1823-1913
The west face is weather-worn, no longer readable. The following name and dates are from Heald, Blue and Paxton’s 1955 'CEMETERY RECORDS Stark County, Ohio' used by permission of the McKinley Presidential Library & Museum:
JOHN H SCHERER
DIED DEC 14, 1883
AGED 66Y 7M 10D
A footstone is near the base of John's grave, inscribed: FATHER
This gravestone is located in row 12, positions 3 & 4, next to some of their children's graves. Elizabeth Snyder Scherer was d/o Jacob Snyder & Elizabeth Hoover, reference her Ohio Death Cert- 1913, #5559.
Contributed on 10/28/09 by murmering-markers
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