As I mentioned, my g-g-g grandfather, Revolutionary Daniel Collett, never a Quaker, was buried there in 1835, not far from the now brush and trees. Now, I do wonder if his wife, Mary Haines Collett, my Quaker g-g-g grandmother, who died in 1826, may have been buried there, where she was a member, as was her daughter-in-law, Rebecca Haines Collett, who died in 1847. Oh, I have not found where Daniel/Mary’s son, Moses Collett, Rebecca’s husband, who died in 1823, was buried. Moses and Rebecca lived near now Roxanna, but I haven’t found where either was buried, and I’ve looked in books for Greene, Clinton and Warren counties.
Also, I haven’t found where my Sexton g-g, or g-g-g, grandfather was buried. I showed you a tombstone reference to him in Caesar Creek cemetery. Somewhere-I think in McKay records, since there was a Sexton/McKay/Steer marriage in Virginia, and that’s how I sorted out how my dad, William Sexton Doster’s, grandmother Sexton got to Wilmington after marrying a McCune in Clermont County- I’ve seen that he was buried in Greene County, but his name is not in cemetery records there. Caesar Creek cemetery is in Warren county, but close to Clinton and Greene Counties.
Now, I wonder if anyone, say, any Haines, has a cemetery record for Caesar Creek Cemetery. I know that my dad had one for Jonah’s Run Baptist cemetery on SR 73, just east of the Warren/Clinton County line. He gave it to Mabel Terry when she became a trustee in about 1967. But, she died soon after, and her heirs didn’t return it.
Hey, wouldn’t Caesar Creek cemetery be a good place to hold a tombstone restoration clinic like the one John attended with you last September near Red Lion?
No, none of my relatives are as good looking as your Reverend McKee below.
What fun,
Howard Doster
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Hi Howard,
Happy Easter!
Enjoyed the visit to the Caesar's Creek MM Burying Ground. Glad we could find the neglected and IGNORED markers.
I checked the genealogical society's list and Jesse Arnold is not on it. Could be that most of the others in the overgrown area were not read or photographed, either. I'll try to speak with Chester Dunn about it, but his memory may not be that good. Mine probably wouldn't be.... <grin>
So, my mystery people whose photographs are in my G Grandmother's (Springboro) photo album are McKees, not McKays, so I'll have to keep looking.
As I said, I sent them to Thomas Hamm at Earlham College and he couldn't find any record of them, so they may not have been Quakers. However, my G Grandmother was a practicing Quaker to her end, in 1924.
So, here are the pictures (c. 1875) on the slim hope that you hear some reference to them, sometime.
Terry Easton
