Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Oak Grove United Methodist Church and Cemetery, Bristol Township, Morgan County, Ohio


I rediscovered this picture some time ago. There is nothing other then its age, that makes this picture remarkable. The writing on the front appears to be that of Carl Woodward Jameson. On front, it states "Part of Grove Cemetery"; and on back, just the date "1884 8 21". The writing on the back doesn't appear to be the same handwriting as on the front. My guess, the writing belongs to Hugh Edward Jameson.

What is truly remarkable is the cemetery itself. Oak Grove Cemetery sits in the hilly farmland of north-eastern Morgan County. Morgan County was the first home in Ohio that the Jameson settled. It's the land where the Jameson's, Sears', and Blackburn's connected to make our family. William Jameson, the poor Scottish emmigrant, owned his first land there; lived for more then 40 years, and died there. Oak Grove Cemetery host his and his wife's remains. To call Oak Grove a Jameson family cemetery, would be incorrect. Only William and Mary (who share a stone), their children Agnes and Archibald (who also share a stone), and John R., have headstones in this graveyard. I would have to say the cemetery would be more the family graveyard of the Sears or the Blackburns (thou, the Blackburn's occupy many cemeteries within Morgan County like this).

I have a couple notes to give about the cemetery:

-The body of John R. Jameson does not rest within Oak Grove. The family placed a stone only in memorial for John at Oak Grove. John R. Jameson died October 04, 1864 at the Soldiers Hospital, David's Island, Westchester County, New York. John's true remains lay at Cypress Hills National Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York (which he has a headstone there, also). John R. Jameson died while recovering from wounds received earlier in the year of 1864, while serving as a Private with Company I, 62nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment.

-It is unclear if Oak Grove Cemetery is the resting place of Martha (Richmond) Haggerty. Oak Grove appears to be one of two likely places where she was layed to rest. There is no headstone or record of her remains being at Oak Grove. The other more likely place would be in an unmarked grave on William Jameson's farm in Manchester Township, Morgan County, Ohio. Martha (Richmond) Haggerty was the mother of Mary (Haggerty) Jameson. It is known, that the widow, Martha and her youngest son Thomas
moved to Ohio along with William and Mary and their young children from Thistle (Ellicott Mills area), Maryland. The 1850 census records Martha living in the household of William Jameson in Morgan County. By 1850 Thomas Haggerty was married and had a family, living in Brookfield Township, Morgan County, Ohio.


-My last point is, is that the fantastic genealogy site, http://www.findagrave.com/ has the cemetery listed under the another county. You will find Oak Grove Cemetery listed as being located in Muskingum County, Ohio. The true location of this site is on the border of Bristol Township, Morgan County and Meigs Township, Muskingum County, with the cemetery crossing into both counties.


Here are a few images found on http://www.findagrave.com/ of the Jameson's graves:


William Jameson's side of the joist stone with wife Mary


Mary Jameson's side of the joist stone with husband William


The joist stone of Archibald Jameson (top section) and Agnes Jameson (bottom section)


Grave marker of John R. Jameson at Oak Grove Cemetery




I've never visited Oak Grove Cemetery. I would love to visit this place one day and find where the William Alfred Sears' and William Jameson had their homes. The following information is recorded by Judy Bedford  some time ago on http://www.ohgen.net/ohmorgan/oakcem.htm. I cleaned the listing up and rearranged the names alphabetically to make the search a little more easy:


ALLEN, Eva May 1876 - 1922 Sister of John Vorhis
BLACKBURN, Alfred M b 7/19/1847 --d 9/7/1855 s/o Thomas & Anna
BLACKBURN, Anna Sears 9/17/1807 - 9/29/1855 w/o Thomas Blackburn
BLACKBURN, Ansley 1/5/1817 - 10/31/1886 s/o Zachariah & Elizabeth
BLACKBURN, Blanche 8/9/1881 -11/23/1900 d/oPerley Blackburn
BLACKBURN, C Wesley 1853 - 1916 s/o David & Margaret Stone
BLACKBURN, David L 4//7/1809- 2/14/1899 s/o Joseph

BLACKBURN, Emma F 10/20/1885 - 4/21/1893 d/o Frank Blackburn
BLACKBURN, Frances 12/29/1849 -12/26/1890 d/o David
BLACKBURN, Frank 4/10/1860 - 1931
BLACKBURN, Hannah 1858 - 1928 w/o Wesley

BLACKBURN, Howard 3/25/1883 - 9/25/1884 s/o Perley
BLACKBURN, Jane Fenton 7/13/1818 - 6/8/1892 w/o Ansley

BLACKBURN, Joel D 8/1/1845 - 9/21/1855 s/o Thomas Blackburn
BLACKBURN, John 5/23/1834 - 3/7/1878 f/o Belle Sears
BLACKBURN, Louisa Dye 12/15/1834 - 3/1/1915 w/o J M
BLACKBURN, Margaret Stone 10/23/1814 -2/8/1895 w/o David

BLACKBURN, Sadie Ewing 1860 - 6/1/1891 w/o Perlie Blackburn
BLACKBURN, Sadie Fulton 12/22/1862 - 4/7/1893 w/o Frank Blackburn
BLACKBURN, Thomas Blackburn b 2/20/1804 --d 3/21/1854
BLACKBURN, Velecta Wilson 9/1863 - 9/1939 w/o Frank Blackburn
BLACKBURN, William 11/9/1859 - 3/7/1863 s/o John & Louisa Blackburn

BRISCO, Ann T 10/12/1808 - 10/18/1855 w/o George Brisco
BURNS, Mary Burns 1846 - 3/5//1864
DICKINSON, Goldie George 1884 - 1933 w/o John H
DICKINSON, Harley 1891 - 1/1983 WWI Veteran, s/o Leander & Ella
DICKINSON, John H 1877 - 1933 s/o Leandor & Ella

DICKINSON, Leander 8/9/1839 - 3/12/1902 f/o Harley & John
DYE, Elizabeth Needham 5/27/1833 - 10/19/1899 Mother of Rev; d/o Isaac & Jane Needham
DYE, Ella Sears 6/22/1858 - 3/26/1926 wife d/o John & Louise Sears

FRAME, Ansley 1873 - 1942
FRAME, Ascenith Blackburn 10/8/1842 - 10/1926 w/o Norris

FRAME, Charles E 1/5/1863 - 7/10/1863 s/o Norris Frame
FRAME, Janie May
FRAME, Laura Jordan 1871 - 1951 w/o Ansley Frame
FRAME, Lula 1901 - 1902 Grand d/o Norris and Ascenith

FRAME, Norris 1840 - 1915
FULLER, Infant d/o C and E Fuller d 7/26/1852 9 days old
FULLER, Infant s/o C and E Fuller d 11/18/1851 5 days old
FULTON, Emma Garrett 3/9/1826 - 6/2/1906

FULTON, George 4/24/1829- 6/1/1906
FULTON, Sarah A 4/4/1857 - 5/25/1858 d/o Wm & Ann
GANDER, Harold Gander 1900 -- 9/1918 WWI Veteran, s/o John & Jessica Long Gander
GARRETT, Eleanor S 1835 - 1926

GARRETT, Flora Bay 1864 - 1923 W/o Samuel Garrett.
GARRETT, George W 1839- 1915 s/o Burton
GARRETT, Howard 1892- 7/1916 S/o Samuel & Flora Garrett
GARRETT, Hughs , M.D. b-- d --? S/o Robert & Merium

GARRETT, Lobella 4/8/1875 - 12/18/1878 D/o George & Ella Garrett
DYE, Louise 7/17/1891 - 11/16/1892 d/o Rev Wm Dye
DYE, Presley C 2/9/1825 - 7/19/1903 f/o Rev. Wm Dye
DYE, Rev, Wm 10/8/1852 - 3/10/1915
GARRETT, Merrium Needham 1836 - 1922 w/o Robert
GARRETT, Robert 1836 - 1920 s/o E Burton Garrett
GARRETT, Samuel 1858 - 1928 s/o Robert &Merium Garrett
-Eight Sandstone slabs here are unreadable (they are Garrett children)
GAY, Infant son d 5/16/1861 --s/o RJ and MJ Gay
GIBBS, Abrigal 9/7/1846 - 3/3/1899 w/o Samuel Gibbs
GIBBS, Elizabeth 2/7/1813 -11/5/1894 w/o Levi

GIBBS, Levi 8/11/1811 - 2/20/1873
GIBBS, Samuel 10/1/1842 - d ? s/o Levi Gibbs
GIBBS, Zana 5/18/1853 - 5/19/1854 d/o Levi
GORRELL, H Parker 12/3/1859 - 3/8/1938. f/o Sears Gorrell s/o Thos & Nancy Spillman Gorrell
GORRELL, John Sears 11/7/1894 - 10/30/1918 WWI Vet s/o J P Blanche Sears Gorrell

GORRELL, O Blanche Sears 5/23/1867 - 10/5/1958 Mother of Sears
HALL, Anna Mobley 10/29/1808 - 10/4/1878 w/o John Hall

HALL, Chalmer 8/4/1875 - 1/1877 s/o Nathaniel Hall
HALL, Charles (Scott) 1860 - 12/13/1912
HALL, Charles P. 1842-1921; Veteran of the Civil War s/o John & Anna Mobley Hall

HALL, Cynthia Blackburn 7/3/1844 -1/20/1872 w/o Charles Hall and d/o Ansley & Jane Blackburn
HALL, Daniel 6/9/1860 - 9/17/1864 s/o Richard
HALL, Dye 5/1875 - 1/4/1963 s/o J R & Tilda Dye Hall

HALL, Edna L 8/1901- 7/1962 w/o Edwin P and d/o Dye & Margaret Coulter Hall
HALL, Edwin P Hall 5 Jul 1901 -22 Mar 1991 s/o Dwight & Pearl Petty Hall
HALL, Elwood 1859 - 1946 s/o J Richard & Tilda Dye Hall
HALL, Evaline G 1850-1927 w/o Nathaniel
HALL, Francis Camp 1865 - 1943 w/o Elwood Hall
HALL, Harlan 1869 -1929 s/o Nathaniel Hall & Evaline Grandstaff
HALL, John 3/13/1805 - 3/26/1878 s/o John Hall Sr. & Elizabeth Stevens
HALL, John R. 1832 - 1882 s/o John and Anna Mobley Hall

HALL, John W. 1883-1961 s/o Charles P & Jane Barkhimer Hall
HALL, Louise McNutt 1/21/1889 - 8/31/1978; w/o John Hall
HALL, Margaret Coulter 1/1877 - 5/1969 w/o Dye Hall

HALL, Mary Belle 10/1897 - 5/1969 d/o Dye & Margaret
HALL, Mary Jane 1853-1940; w/o Charles P Hall d/o of Wm Berkheimer
HALL, Matilda Dye 1832 -11/1919 w/o John Richard Hall

HALL, Nathaniel 1845 -1931 s/o John & Elizabeth Stevens Hall
HALL, Ralph 3/18/1888 - 8/31/1888 s/o Dwight & Pearl Petty Hall

HALL, Zilla Fulton 9/23/1866 - 2/13/1922 w/o Scott Hall
HAMILTON, George b ? Company L th Regt OVI

HILL, Ivan S 8/1900 - 4/1959 adopted s/o Dr. Hill
HILL, Seth 7/17/1870 - 12/12/1947 h/o Armenia Hill Sears
HUFFMAN, Arza 12/3/1861 - 2/22/1888 s/o Samuel & Elizabeth
HUFFMAN, Elizabeth 1821 - 1894

HUFFMAN, Harley 1888 - 1892 s/o Lily Frame Huffman
HUFFMAN, Infant b ? d 2/28/1885 child of Lily Frame Huffman
HUFFMAN, Mary E 11/17/1863 - 6/5//1886 d/o Samuel & Elizabeth

HUFFMAN, Minnie 1866 -1933 d/o Samuel & Elizabeth
HUFFMAN, Samuel 1823 -- 1908
HUFFMAN, W V 1855 - 1904 married Lily Frame; s/o Samuel Huffman

IRWIN, Martha Jane Knight Irwin 1846 - 1920 d/o John & Mary Knight
IRWIN, Vinnie Irwin 1871 -1936 d/o Martha Irwin

JAMESON, Agnes 1835 -10/18/1857 child of Wm & Mary H
JAMESON, Archibald 1834 - 7/30/1853 child of Wm & Mary H
JAMESON, John R 1842 - 10/4/1864
JAMESON, Mary Haggerty 6/20/1808 - 8/21/1884
JAMESON, William 3/22/1792 - 1/14/1884

JORDAN, Asa 1834 - 1917 Laura Frame's Father. Civil War Vet
JORDAN, Mary 1831 - 3/2/1866 first w/o Asa Jordan
JORDAN, Michael 1858 - 1921 s/o Asa & Mary Jordan
JORDAN, Orpha 1831 - 1881
JORDAN, Sarah 1842-1933 2nd w/o Asa Jordan
-Infant Boy north of the Jordan Lot
KNIGHT, Alta G 2/23/1853 - 3/10/1942 D/o Thomas &Nancy Spillman
KNIGHT, Blanche D 1973- 5/1935 D/o George & Nancy Stansberry Dickenson
KNIGHT, Clovis 8/1872- 1941 S/o Will & Alta
KNIGHT, George 8/21/1842 - 3/25/1882 s/o John & Mary Knight [Nancy Needham Knight w/o George buried near Jewett Ohio]
KNIGHT, John Henry 1863 - 1941 s/o George & Nancy Needham Knight
KNIGHT, John Sr. 11/12/1807 - 2/17/1901 s/o Phillip Joseph & Eliz Grantham Knight
KNIGHT, Lizzie Sims 1869 - 1927 w/o John Henry Knight, d/o Israel & Mary Dye Sims
KNIGHT, Mary Fenton 10/12/1811 - 5/16/1889 w/o John Knight Sr
KNIGHT, William 10/10/1848- 1/26/1905 S/on John & Mary Fenton
LYLE, Everett 2/22/1852 - 3/25/1862 s/o Butler Lyle
LYLE, Laura 6/18/1856 - 3/29/1862 d/o Butler Lyle

MAHONEY, John 3/9/1806 - 9/18/1891 parents of Lucinda & Sarah Smith ?
MAHONEY,Sarah 1//30/1799 - 4/20/1884 parents of Lucinda & Sarah Smith ?

McCALL, Mary 1809 - 10/6/1896
McCLINTICK, Abaline 4/16/1834 - ?
McCLINTICK, Abram 5/27/1828 - 4/11/1894
McDONALD Infant b ? d 3/3/1884
McLUCAS, James 1832 - 1911 Civil War Veteran
McLUCAS, Lucinda 1830 - 1913 d/o John & Sarah Mahoney; w/o James

MORRIS, Ansley 4/12/1855 - 5/27/1855 s/o Mary Blackburn & H Morris
MORRIS, John 3/28/1866 - 9/20/1869 s/o 2nd w/o H Morris
MORRIS, Mary 4/12/1855 - 5/17/1855 2nd w/o H Morris
MORRIS, Mary J 7/2/1822 - 8/14/1855
MORRIS, Sarah E. 6/25/1850 - 8/11/1855

MORRIS, ______ 2/7/1847 - 8/7/1855 child of Mary Jane Morris & H Morris
MURPHY, Ann 4/7/1853 - 4/17/1870
MURPHY, Rosalee 12/10/1863 - 6/6/1865 Maybe d/o Jim & Lottie Murphy
NEEDHAM, Amanda 1856 - 1893 Isaac Needham b 8/22/1880 --d 9/1/1885
NEEDHAM, Esrom 4/3/1842 - 10/1/1866 s/o Jane & Isaac Needham
NEEDHAM, John s/o Isaac & Jane Needham (dates unavailable
NEEDHAM, Isaac Sr. 11/1/1806 -4/24/1875 Jane Needham b 4/25/1813 --d 10/1/1869 (w/o Isaac Sr.)
NELSON, Mary M 1869 -1954 w/o William, d/o James & Lucinda McLucas
NELSON, William 1867 - 19-- s/o John T & Matilda Rex Nelson

OGAN, Flora Wilson 8/6/1871 - 7/8/1944 w/o Grant
OGAN, Mildred C 5/1904 - 1949 d/o UG and Flora Wilson Ogan
OGAN, U Grant 1863 - 7/1922 f/o Mildred

OSMERB, Cora Hall 1882 - 1950 d/o Nathaniel & Eveline Hall
PEDICORD, Frank C 1863 - 1937
PEDICORD, Hattie Frame 6/16/1867 - 6/5/1891 First w/o Frank Pedicord
PEDICORD, Iva 1893 - 6/1915 d/o Frank & Louisa Smith Pedicord
PEDICORD, Louisa Smith 1871 - 6/19/1915 d/o Eli Smith

PHELPS, Gertrude S 11/15/1876 - 12/8/1945 d/o John & Louise Sears

QUARTERMAN, Charles 1869 - 1941 s/o John Quarterman
QUARTERMAN, Edward 1877 - 1958 Grands/o John Quarterman
QUARTERMAN, Jesse 1879 - 1952 s/o John & Louisa Quarterman
QUARTERMAN, John 5/12/1820 -2/13/1913 Father
QUARTERMAN, Louisa 1840 - 1929 third w/o John
RAMAGE, Ella D 1852 - 1930 Ella Garret. First husband Leander Dickinson; 2nd Church Ramage
RHOADS, Edward 7/17/1896 - 2/26/1979 H/o Ione Knight WWI Veteran
SCOTT, James 1828 - 1887 f/o Levi Scott, Elizabeth Detrick, & Tillie Conkel
SEARS, Anne 11/12/1834 -7/13/1858 d/o John Manley Sears II
SEARS, Ansley B 5/20/1840 - 6/9/1865 s/o Alfred Sears. [Civil War Veteran ]
SEARS, Dr. Armenia Sears 11/28/1872 - 8/22/1950 d/o J W Sears
SEARS, Belle Blackburn 1864 - 5/23/1927 d/o Perley Blackburn

SCOTT, Melissa Gibb 1844 - 1920 w/o James Scott & d/o Levi Gibbs
SEARS, Elbridge 7/20/1848 - 5/27/1884 s/o Alfred Sears
SEARS, Frank E 1861 - 1894 s/o Benton Sears

SEARS, Franklin 10/9/1851 - 9/11/1861 s/o of Alfred Sears
SEARS, George Hissey 7/13/1860 - 1/11/1865 s/o of John W.

SEARS, Harry E. b 3/1893

SEARS, John Manley II 12/25/1803 - 4/13/1880 Brother of Alfred Sr.
SEARS, John Manley Sr. 1763 - 1859 f/o Alfred Sr.
SEARS, John W 8/10/1832 - 3/27/1908 s/o Alfred & Margaret Blackburn Sears

SEARS, John W Jr. 1838 - 8/30/1865 s/o John Manley Sears [Civil War Vet]
SEARS, Josephine Combs 1/14/1843 - 6/13/1883 w/o Benton
SEARS, Lissy S 1863 -3/1890 First w/o Rev. Wm Sears

SEARS, Louisa Fulton 12/8/1832 - 11/2/1919 w/o John Sears
SEARS, Louisa Fulton Sears 12/8/1832 - 11/2/1919 w/o John Sears
SEARS, Lucy Hall 5//25/1899 - 1/1953 w/o Harry Sears

SEARS, Margaret Blackburn 8/24/1808 - 8/18/1891 w/o Wm A Sears
SEARS, Martha Sealock 1809 - 7/19/1881 w/o John M. Sears II 

SEARS, Patty 1770 - 1856 ?d 3/29/1862 Second w/o John M Sears Sr
SEARS, Raymond 9/1921 - 1/1922 s/o Harry & Lucy Hall Sears

SEARS, Thomas Benton 3/11/1835 - 8/25/1869 killed by fall into a well
SEARS, William Alfred b 2/20/1800 - 12/31/1884
SEARS, William Alfred 11/9/1845 -4/14/1861 s/o Alfred Sears

SMITH, Alice Belle 1877 - 1946 d/o Eli & Sarah Mahoney Smith

SMITH, John 1866 - 1945 s/o Eli & Sarah Mahoney Smith
VORHIS, Ephram 1855 - 1927 Brother of John [unmarried]
VORHIS, John 1857 - 1921
WALTERS, Sarah 1822 - 9/16/1895 May be mother of Joseph Walters
WELLS, James H Wells 11/17/1909 -11/17/1911 s/o Rev J M Wells
WELLS, Infant s/o Rev Wells
WELLS, Myrtle Sears 8/22/1869 - 12/26/1954 w/o Rev J Wells
WELLS, Rev. James 10/1851 - 9/1/1936
WHEELER, Florence Devol 1873 -- d 1947 w/o James M
WHEELER, James b? Co D 9th OVI f/o James Mason Wheeler
WHEELER, James Mason 1863 -1936 s/o James
WHEELER, Iva A 1893 -1947 D/o Mark & Jane Alexander
WHEELER, Maria 7/9/ 1823 - 6/9/1892 w/o James Sister of Burton Garrett
WHEELER, Marshall D 1896 - August 1950. WWI Vet. S/o James & Florence Wheeler

WILLIAMS, Elizabeth Blackburn 2/26/1846 - 9/18/1872 w/o Sam Williams
WILLIAMS, Elizabeth 9/1/1872 - 9/18/1872 d/o S & E Williams

 

BROTHERS, Charlotte 1881 - 1938 d/o Mark & Jane Alexander
BROTHERS, George Thomas 1863 - 1929 PO and Storekeeper at Knight.
BROTHERS, Pauline b & d 1917 d/o Tom & Lottie

2 comments:

  1. Unfortunately the area of the homesteads of William and his son William have all been strip mined (the coal company was prevented from also moving the cemetary as they had wished). The site of the elder William's homestead is now a campground in the re-planted strip mine area. I think the Sears home is gone also. A neighbor just north of the Oak Grove Cemetary shared with us that her mother had written a history of the area, including a brief chapter on the Jamesons, which is at the McConnelsville Historical Soc.

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  2. I think I am going to contact the Historic Society to see if I can get a copy of that chapter. I'm still trying to find out what happened to the oldest three children of William H. Jameson. I guess that is another post thou. I do have description of where the Jameson homestead was from the location of the Sears farm. I also have a few pictures of the Jameson place. I know William H. Jameson's wife sold it on Jan. 3, 1889 (about 6 months after he died).

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