In this series, some of the general surveys of Defiance County cemeteries will be shared, transcribed as written with a few punctuation and/or spelling changes for readability. The surveys were probably done around 1936.
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Evansport Cemetery
1. Name of cemetery:
The Evansport Cemetery, named from the town of Evansport
2. Location, how reached:
On both sides of the Evansport - Defiance Road, just south of the town of Evansport. The old part of the cemetery is on the east side of the road on the bank of the Tiffin River and the new part across the road in a small grove of trees. It can be reached by automobile on good roads. It is about ten and one half miles from Defiance in Tiffin Township, two miles west and eight and one half miles north.
3. Name and address of caretaker:
W. S. Hall, Evansport village or R. R. #2, Defiance, Ohio
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| Photo from www.findagrave.com |
4. General description, size, appearance, etc.:
This graveyard is well kept up by the trustees of Tiffin Township, and is undenominational, although used mostly by the Methodist and Presbyterians, since the Lutheran Church has their own graveyard a short distance away. And, of course, no persons of Roman Catholic faith are buried here.
This burial ground is one of the oldest in the realm of Defiance County and claims to be the oldest, having a marker in it of a person buried in 1810; however, this date I cannot make coincide with history of Defiance County or Evansport. There is no record of any settlers being in Defiance County at that time which was before the War of 1812, and before Fort Winchester was built on the site of Old Fort Defiance, which two places are recorded by historians as being the oldest sites of land laid out by white men.
Yet there is a stone marker there to the memory of Caleb Coy, who died 1810, and Mr. Hall, the caretaker, informed us his grave is not the oldest, but one of a Mrs. Knipe, whose marker has been destroyed. I rather think all this is only hearsay and that this marker to Caleb Coy was put up by his later relatives and he had died and was...(lines missing)
... is given as the oldest in Defiance County, its earliest grave is 1822 which is just about right. However, this cemetery can be said to be one of the oldest and perhaps the oldest still kept up. It is fenced in with an ornamental wire fence, has an iron arch gateway over the main entrance, has stone and gravel drives and a small chapel like tomb on the lot. Its size is three acres.
5. Name and date of first burial recorded:
See disputed account of Caleb Coy's grave in 1810 in the foregoing topic above.
6. Names of important people buried here:
Old pioneer settlers, the Halls, Camerons, Partees, all well to do farmers are the most important people buried here.
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| Photo from www.findagrave.com. A closer look indicated the death date of Caleb Coy as 1840, rather than 1810. |
7. Markers of unusual appearance:
Tombstones, markers and monuments range from the small stone mosaicslabs to stately, heavy modern granite ones, none of particular note, only that one marked 1810, which lies flat on the ground.
8. Unusual epitaphs: None
9. Is cemetery used for new burials?
Evansport Cemetery is still used every week, persons residing in the district, have lots of their own in it.
C. Cadwallader and C. Gish, Reporters
William S. Hall, Evansport Village or R.R. #2, Defiance, Ohio
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