Union cemetery or Old Masterton
cemetery, Bethel Township, Monroe County, Ohio. I did not
visit this cemetery. The Information is from
“Monroe County, Ohio Records” by Catharine F. Fedorchak,
Volume VIII. Catharine did a reading of
this cemetery in May 1969. Her
description is: “Abandoned Cemetery, on
the McPeek Farm, near Masterton
(also known as Lebanon) near the Washington-Monroe Co. boundary. A Mr. Fliehman told
us of this one, and it is really back in the woods. Arley Byers kept on
tramping around until he found it, and Alma Miller and I finally caught up with
him. These were only a few readable
stones in May of 1969 – although I imagine the cemetery had been much larger at
one time. It is in a heavily wooded
area.” This cemetery was read on 10
April 2014 by Darlene Fleeman, Mark Koogler, Matthew Koogler &
John Ogden. John Ogden sent me the
information as follows: “This cemetery
is on private party owned by Jim and Darlene Fleeman,
and the outline of the church was discovered by tracking the nail patterns with
a metal detector. The church was
situated right in front of the cemetery.
10 additional stones were found with a probe for a total of 16 markers
copied. There are numerous broken stubs
of other markers, and it is estimated there are at least that many more and
perhaps as many as 50 plus stones originally.
This was an Associated Reformed Presbyterian Church called Union Church
located on the property of Thomas Masters.”
Surname |
Given |
Birth |
Death |
Comments |
Ashbaugh |
Ann Eliza W. |
11/29/1853 |
consort of Joshua, aged 59 years 6 months |
|
Bowhan |
Jacob |
7/7/1849 |
consort of John, agted 42 years 11
months 28 days |
|
Bowhan |
Susannah |
11/30/1875 |
aged 82 years |
|
Cunningham |
Mary |
10/11/1852 |
dau of T. & M., aged 16 months 15 days |
|
Day |
Mary M. |
7/17/1853 |
dau of Dr. Frederick & Phoebe Ashbaugh,
age 16 years 1 month 7 days |
|
Ekey |
William P. |
9/15/1852 |
wife of Jacob Bowhan, aged 51 or 54
years 6 months 22 days |
|
Flanagan |
Harriet |
11/6/1854 |
wife of Thomas Day, aged 23 or 33 years 7 months 13 days |
|
Flanagan |
Harriet L. |
6/27/1858 |
son of John and Mary Ekey, aged 4
years 1 month 13 days |
|
Hall |
Malinda |
12/4/1858 |
dau of John and Harriet Flanagan, aged 15 years |
|
Hall |
Hezekiah |
10/19/1852 |
son of Thomas and Mary Hall, aged 9 years 11 months 7 days |
|
Hall |
Sarah |
9/26/1852 |
dau of Thomas and Mary Hall, aged 6 years 6 months 19 days |
|
Hutchison |
Emsy C. |
11/16/1861 |
dau of Ebenezer E. and Rhoda Hutchison, aged 4 years 2 months and
29 days |
|
Hutchison |
John W. |
2/17/1857 |
son of Ebenezer E. and Rhoda Hutchison, aged 6 years 2 months |
|
Hutchison |
Ruth Ann |
11/1/1857 |
dau of Ebenezer E. and Rhoda Hutchison, aged 4 years 9 months |
|
Masters |
Rachel |
11/23/1847 |
wife of Thomas Masters, aged 64 years 3 months and 1 day |
|
Masters |
Thomas |
4/17/1870 |
aged 77 years 4 months 3 days |