Cemetery read by Alice Donkin and Betsy
Earley on July 15, 2005
Prepared by: Sara Greer
in September, 2005
If you wish to contact Betsy for more
information about this cemetery, please contact her at her
Baearley@woh.rr.com or at Findmyroots_53@yahoo.com
If you wish to add headstone pictures to this cemetery, please submit them to http://www.findagrave.com
This cemetery is located Northwest of Brighton,
west of Houston Pike. Between U.S.40 and Interstate 70
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 39.9342, Longitude: -83.5686
Additional information from "History of Clark County", W. H. Beers & Co., 1881, page 643 - ".....At Brighton, a small and tolerably well kept cemetery is used as a place of interment by the general public..." Page 645 - "This village was laid out by David Ripley and Marvin Gager in 1835. It is located in the northeastern part of Harmony Township, about twelve and a half miles east of Springfield, and on the National road.
| Name | Birth Date |
Death Date |
Age at Death |
Other Notes |
| Beagle, Abigail | Jun 24 1853 | 38y 5 days | Wife of (Hiram), Marker is broken and down. | |
| Brougher, Jane M | 1857 | 1862 | ||
| Clark, William H. | Jan 07 1854 | 2y 7m 16d | s/o J. F. and R. M. Clark | |
| Dodson, Charles H. | Feb 08 1861 | Mar 21 1931 | Marker says "Father" | |
| Dodson, Harriett | 1870 | 1916 | Marker says "Mother" and "Blessed are the pure in heart. | |
| Dodson, Verne | 1900 | 1911 | buried between Charles and Harriett Dodson | |
| Eleazor, Martin E. | Sep 24 1845 | 3 y 9 m 28d | Son of Ham. | |
| Evans, Alexander W. | Jul 05 1857 | This marker is broken & missing but beside Thomas E. Evans. | ||
| Evans, Thomas E. | Jan 09 1858 | 28y 10m 25d | ||
| Gilbert, Austin | Mar 04 1892 | 47 years | ||
| Gilbert, Elizabeth | Feb 18 1879 | 68 y 5 m 15 d | Wife of Sydney Gilbert | |
| Going, John Henry | Jun 06 1858 | 23 y 23 days | Son of Michael and Mary Going | |
| Hesler, Harriett | May 02 1821 | Sep 15 1869 | 48y 4m13 days | Broken monument |
| Littleton, John W. * | Apr 06 1838 |
32 years | Broken monument | |
| Mason, (G.W.) | Co. (?) 186th Ohio Infantry | |||
| Mason, Cora B. | 1872 | 1942 | Wife of John W. Mason | |
| Mason, John W. | 1851 | 1926 | ||
| Mason, Julia Ann | 1932 | d/o Clarence H. and Edith Mason | ||
| Mc Lauglin, Mary Jane | 1852 | 1899 | ||
| Mc Lauglin, Stephen | 1841 | 1929 | ||
| McComis, Ora McKenzie | 1888 | 1910 | ||
| Randolph, Alonzo | Feb 10 1869 | Jul 15 1883 | 14y 5m 5 days | Son of John and Melissa Randolph |
| Randolph, Infant Daug. | Feb 12 18?? | d/o John and Melissa Randolph | ||
| Randolph, Melissa | Sep 13 1849 | July 23, 1878 or 1879 | 23y 10m 10d | Wife of John Randolph |
| Randolph, William P. | 1832 | 1889 | ||
| Shafer, (Mary Jane) | Oct. 23, 1853 or 1858 | 7 y 9 m 16 days | d/o A. and Ann Shafer | |
| Watson, Etta | 1858 | 1908 | ||
| Watson, John | 1856 | 1891 | ||
| MISSING MONUMENTS | These monuments were present at a previous reading but not here anymore | |||
| Bennett, Victoria | d/o W. H. and E. | |||
| Gadd, George W. | 30 J---, 1853 | 10 yr 15 days | ||
| Mason, William | 20 May 1862 | 50 yrs | ||
| Morris, T. P. | Co. ? 45th Ohio Inf. | |||
* Quite a while ago, one of his relatives contacted Betsy about that monument. This one is important because the monument is now broken and all that you can read is John W. _______.
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