Trims Gift Traditional Cache
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You will find Trim Cemetery off of Spring Creek Road and the cache is behind it.
The parcel of land at the top of the hill, the highest point in Eldred Township, Warren County, is the site of Trim Cemetery. Ezra and Louise Trim gave this land in 1889, for the benefit of the poor of Eldred Township. One condition was that their family plot would always be chained off from the rest of the cemetery. Because the chain kept "disappearing", it was recently replaced with a plastic chain. Records indicate the cemetery has been in use since the 1830's.
When I was a child, about 9 or 10,(late 1950's) mother-nature got ahead of the care of the cemetery. My father, other concerned relatives and neighbors got together and cleared it of trees, brush and filled in the sunken graves. I was one of the two children working and the only female. My Father believed hard work was good to learn at an early age, male or female. I was also a tom-boy. I did work hard, as was expected, but I also had a great time being with all those characters. You don't find people like that anymore. People loose something once they get "educated".
Later that same year my father and his relatives, put tomb stones on the unmarked graves of ancestors, guessing at the order they were buired in. You will find them in the back. The stones all look the same.
My Grandfather built the green house near the foot of the driveway and the house north on the left. The later is still owned by distant relatives.
Today, Trim's farm is owned by Ned Wojtowicz who gave the cemetery a half acre more to expand the original cemetary.
There are about 103 known graves, some of which are still unmarked. Cement markers shaped like a cross, lie flush with the ground to mark spots which is believed also to be gravesites.
In the past 40 years, eight burials were recorded, one being my father's sister whom I dearly loved.
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