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Sugar Creek Township and Cemetery Index

Old Baptist Cemetery	Bose Cemetery	Boughman Cemetery	Breninger Cemetery	Cross Roads Cemetery
German Evangelical Cemetery	Old German Cemetery	Greenlawn Cemetery	McFarren Cemetery	Pleasant Grove Cemetery
Reed Cemetery	South Lawn Cemetery	Starner Cemetery	Swan Cemetery	Weimer Cemetery
Welty Cemetery	Old Wilmot Cemetery

A Brief History of Sugar Creek Township

The following information was obtained from the Atlas Of Stark County Ohio Compiled from County Records and Actual Surveys. By William J. Kauffman Assisted By Orrin F. Kauffman and Published By The Ohio Map and Atlas Co. Canton, Ohio 1896 which I located in the Columbus Metropolitan Library, 96 S. Grant Ave., Cols., Ohio 43215

"Sugar Creek Township was attached to Canton township until 1816." The first election took place on the first Monday in April 1816 and notices of the election were posted at Adam Grounds's, Joseph Poyser's and Fisher's mill. By 1827 there were 115 land holders in the township. The author states that he has it on good authority that Jacob Grounds in 1808 became the first to permanently settle in the township. He received assistance from nearby residents of Kendal, Canton and New Philadelphia to help build a log house. Mr. Grounds and his family were the only residents for a year and a half. Te second settler, Joshua Carr, located in the northern part of the township in 1810. It wasn't long after Mr. Carr that Samuel Hall moved into the township. Over the next four or five years brought with it the Weimer Families of Andrew, Petro, David, Peter and John, John and Gabriel Putman, Joseph Poyser, the Brewsters, Zedekiah and Calvin, John Mason, Jacob Reed, Michael Hoffacre, Abraham Beals, John Byall, the Carrs, Benj. and Aquilla, Michael Douds, Patrick Pelson and several others. Calvin Brewster was elected Justice at the first election of 1816 while Joseph Poyser, Sr was made the constable.

The township's first death was that of Barbara, daughter of Joseph Poyser in 1812. The first marriage was April 13, 1813 of John Reed and Mary Poyser with Esquire William Henry performing the ceremony. The couple relocated to Canton where Mr. Reed operated a saddle and harness-making business. The first birth was that of Jacob Poyser, in 1813. The war of 1812 (often called America's second war for independence) was raging so "a militia company was raised, John Byall, captain, and the first training was an enjoyable novelty." "The muster and parade were at the Reed residence."