"Clapboard Cemetery" Traditional Cache
Northstar and Gemini: Archiving cache. Will leave on line for historical investigation purposes.
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"Clapboard Cemetery", a.k.a. "Pine Creek Freewill Baptist Church Cemetery" ... near the intersects of State Route 522, Shelton Cartro and Big Pete Roads... The cemetery is laid out over a knoll...
Many a community gathering was held at the Pine Creek Freewill Baptist Church...A white, clapboard design church on the creek where baptisms were conducted for the faithful pioneers who were making this new land their own...
The "Clapboard" design was popular during the earliest years of colonial settlements...Weather boards of sorts, the theory behind the overlapping boards on the exterior of a structure has become modern day "siding" ...
Thus the cemetery originally was known by the design of the old clapboard church...As churches grew in size, the Freewill Baptist denomination became organized and hence comes the other distinction...
This is another great cemetery that is the final resting place of distinguished names listed in the "Pioneers of Scioto County", published in 1880...
Skeltons rest in this cemetery... Sgt. Isaac Skelton (1822-1865) died during the Civil War from "swamp or malarial fever" he contracted while on duty near Beaver Dam, Alabama... He was awarded a disability pension...Shortely after his death, his third wife Elizabeth Tibbles filed for an increase in benefits on Isaac's Civil War Pension..Isaac served with Company I of the 189th Ohio Volunteer Infantry...The Ohio Infantry traveled more than 10,000 miles thru 10 states during the Civil War...
Pvt Thomas McManigahl (1847-1864) served with the 45th Regiment of Kentucky Volunteer Infantry...He died shortely after enlisting at the age of 17 as the result of measles contracted in service and in the line of duty... Records from the Adjutant General's Office in Washington DC from November 1876 show his parents making application for Pension No. 177 and 112 since it was a war related death...
Levi Wheeler (1823-1886) and Thomas Collis (1837-1921)who rest here also served in the Ohio Volunteer Infantry...
Other pioneers who are part of the "History of Scioto County" published in 1986 can be found here, such as Samuel Barber, John Sanford , and Joseph Boggs... One true love story of the pioneers resting here is of Michael Cline (1811-1871) and Elizabeth Elick (1814-1870) who immigrated from Germany as a couple- worked the land and raised four children- and then helped raise their twelve grandchildren- many of which found their final resting place here... Michael lived only one year after his wife passed away, grieving himself to death...
This cemetery, like all cemeteries reminds us of the human toll wars have taken...Archie Wheeler (1894-1942) died in the line of duty in World War II... From the 30th Infantry, Wheeler is buried here next to his ancestors, who like him stood up for their beliefs and served their country in the earlier times of Civil War and World War I...
The cemetery is maintained by Green Township...Some of the markers are from the late 1700's and in very poor shape...It is located directly behind the church which stands today in the same place as it did when Pine Creek was flourishing...And, for the most part it looks much like it did in size and lay out, but, with modern "Clapboards" now...
Replacement Cache is a small plastic camouflaged container...
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