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Submitted: 11/22/06 • Approved: 11/22/06 • Last Updated: 8/13/15 • R5525-G5524-S3
At one time this cemetery was a 1/2 acre in size. There are many unmarked and sunken graves. These were the only tombstones standing in 2000, all being Woodruffs. This cemetery has been abandoned since the early 1900s and is part of a cow pasture today unfenced and unattended.
Jonah Woodruff
[born 1817 in Mason Co. WV to Joshua and Vanity Unknown Woodruff of NJ, he died 25 Apr 1891 Sutton Twp., Meigs Co., Ohio. Joanh was husband to Mary Ann Nease and father to Sarah and Margaret]
Mary Ann Nease Woodruff
[second tombstone from the left. Mary Ann was born in Meigs Co., Ohio 31 Oct 1827 to William Nease and Suzanne Lallance, who are believed to be buried in this same cemetery, she died in Sutton Twp., Meigs Co., Ohio a widow 04 Jun 1908 and was the wife of Jonah Woodruff mother of Margaret and Sarah Woodruff. To my knowledge she is the last person buried in this cemetery.]
Margaret Woodruff
[third tombstone from the left. Margaret was born in 1855 and died 13 Nov 1861 in Sutton Twp., Meigs Co., Ohio of diphtheria.]
Sarah Woodruff
[upper portion of tombstone broken off. Sarah was born in 1851 and died
13 Nov 1861 in Sutton Twp., Meigs Co., Ohio of diphtheria.]
Contributed on 11/22/06 by Schumaker4
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