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Holliday Burial Plot
Information on this burial site is sketchy, but Musser Library records and WPA Tombstone transcriptions done in the 1930's  mention the "Holliday Burial Plot".

The notation found at the Musser Library, dated February 23, 1931 was entitled
"More Old Graves Found Near Here" and read:

These graves are about a mile and a half off Highway 61 on a road which turns off that highway at Eisele Hill.  They are located on a corner of the Lou Dalton farm property and are only a few rods from the new gas pipe line. Note that the WPA records of the late 1930's document these graves as being in Seventy-Six Township.

The grave markers, with their legends still plainly visible, are enclosed in an old wooden fence and an ancient elm tree stands to the center of the enclosure.

Placed against this tree is a headstone with the following words:
"Mary, wife of Sam Holliday, died July 18, 1848, aged 62 years 10 m"
Other stone reads: "Wilson Holliday, died Aug. 24, 1851, aged 27 y, 3m, 3 d." (WPA says 9 days)

If anyone knows if these two graves are still at this location, please let us know.  Both the WPA and MPL records were from the 1930's


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