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    OLD BRADFORD CEMETERY
    not to be confused with the old or the new Harris Creek Cemeteries

    Located south of Bradford and about half a mile south of State Route 36, on the east side of State Route 721. It is in the southwest quarter of section 27 of Newberry Township. According to a deed dated 4 August 1883, from Levi G. and Caroline F. Wenrick of Miami County to the Incorporated Village Of Bradford, four acres for the use of the inhabitants of said village for cemetery purposes.

    Although this is a fairly large burying ground there only around twenty burials identified. The following inscriptions were copied from the gravestones in 1965.

     PENNY, Beverly, C.G. Ohio Cavalry
     PENNY, Hulde Ann, 1824-1894
     BELT, Finley, born 8 Nov 1874, died 3 Jun 1946
     BELT, Laura B. 1883-1936
     BELT, Emerson, died aged 4 months, 15 days
     MOORE, Annie 1859-1907
     MOORE, Nathan 1859-1930
     LaMOORE,------, died 1936 aged 20 years| surname only on 
     LaMOORE,------, died 1937              | these two graves
     GREER, Sarah 1881-1902
    *GREER, John, died 1 April 1934 aged 87 years
    *GREER, George, died 8 March 1939
     COATS, Hulda E. 1864-1902
     ARNETT, Marley Robert, son of Labon and Cora, born 10 Mar 1902, died
            16 Jan 1909
     ARNETT, Greely 1889-1912
     MORROW, H.B., Comp I, 11th Ohio Inf
     MANSFIELD, William, died 23 Dec 1886, aged 60 years, 1 month, 7 days
     MANSFIELD, Clarineta E., wife of William, died 12 Feb 187, aged 55
                years, 8 months, 1 day.
     BOYER, Fannie M. 1877-1909
     BOYER, Henry E. 1822-1907
     PENNY, David H. 1868-1937
    *HALL, I.F., died 2 Dec 1834 
     

    No stones were found for the three graves marked with astericks but two (Greer) are listed in Miller Funeral Home book, Greenville, as buried here. And the Hall grave is from an obituary in the Stillwater Valley News.

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