Catherine was one of the very first people to be buried "in the little family cemetery on top of the hill above the old homeplace." That statement made me think that perhaps they were not really buried here in the Broomstick Cemetery, as is stated in "The Ashcraft Family" by Martha Ashcraft Neal. But a photo from Linda Page showing the location of the Ashcraft homestead at the bottom of the hill down along Fivemile Run confirmed that they were buried here. It was actually their second home in the area.
Starting in 1945, Helen Meredith with the help of family and friends, searched and recorded the cemeteries of Coshocton County. There was a stone for a Catherine Ashcraft (not this Catherine, but the fourth child of Daniel's son Jacob) in the Broomstick Cemetery back then; it was there when Linda Page visited in 1998; but it was no longer there in the summer of 2009. Indeed, less than half the stones that had been recorded back in the middle of the 1900s were still there. Whether some were stolen, or whether they have all toppled and sunk in the mud and been overgrown is hard to know.
If you click on the first picture you can clearly see that fewer than 60 stones remain of the nearly 120 that were catalogued by Helen Meredith and her family and friends.
The second picture shows this "Ashcraft homeplace" - the SE 1/4 of Section 12 in Pike Township, with the Broomstick Cemetery in the northeast corner.
The third picture shows the original home - the SW 1/4 of Section 22, where two of Daniel and Catherine's daughters are buried in what is now called the McKee Cemetery.
The last two pictures show the location of Ashcraft Ridge shown on modern maps - Sections 8 and 14.
Starting in 1945, Helen Meredith with the help of family and friends, searched and recorded the cemeteries of Coshocton County. There was a stone for a Catherine Ashcraft (not this Catherine, but the fourth child of Daniel's son Jacob) in the Broomstick Cemetery back then; it was there when Linda Page visited in 1998; but it was no longer there in the summer of 2009. Indeed, less than half the stones that had been recorded back in the middle of the 1900s were still there. Whether some were stolen, or whether they have all toppled and sunk in the mud and been overgrown is hard to know.
If you click on the first picture you can clearly see that fewer than 60 stones remain of the nearly 120 that were catalogued by Helen Meredith and her family and friends.
The second picture shows this "Ashcraft homeplace" - the SE 1/4 of Section 12 in Pike Township, with the Broomstick Cemetery in the northeast corner.
The third picture shows the original home - the SW 1/4 of Section 22, where two of Daniel and Catherine's daughters are buried in what is now called the McKee Cemetery.
The last two pictures show the location of Ashcraft Ridge shown on modern maps - Sections 8 and 14.
Catherine was one of the very first people to be buried "in the little family cemetery on top of the hill above the old homeplace." That statement made me think that perhaps they were not really buried here in the Broomstick Cemetery, as is stated in "The Ashcraft Family" by Martha Ashcraft Neal. But a photo from Linda Page showing the location of the Ashcraft homestead at the bottom of the hill down along Fivemile Run confirmed that they were buried here. It was actually their second home in the area.
Starting in 1945, Helen Meredith with the help of family and friends, searched and recorded the cemeteries of Coshocton County. There was a stone for a Catherine Ashcraft (not this Catherine, but the fourth child of Daniel's son Jacob) in the Broomstick Cemetery back then; it was there when Linda Page visited in 1998; but it was no longer there in the summer of 2009. Indeed, less than half the stones that had been recorded back in the middle of the 1900s were still there. Whether some were stolen, or whether they have all toppled and sunk in the mud and been overgrown is hard to know.
If you click on the first picture you can clearly see that fewer than 60 stones remain of the nearly 120 that were catalogued by Helen Meredith and her family and friends.
The second picture shows this "Ashcraft homeplace" - the SE 1/4 of Section 12 in Pike Township, with the Broomstick Cemetery in the northeast corner.
The third picture shows the original home - the SW 1/4 of Section 22, where two of Daniel and Catherine's daughters are buried in what is now called the McKee Cemetery.
The last two pictures show the location of Ashcraft Ridge shown on modern maps - Sections 8 and 14.
Starting in 1945, Helen Meredith with the help of family and friends, searched and recorded the cemeteries of Coshocton County. There was a stone for a Catherine Ashcraft (not this Catherine, but the fourth child of Daniel's son Jacob) in the Broomstick Cemetery back then; it was there when Linda Page visited in 1998; but it was no longer there in the summer of 2009. Indeed, less than half the stones that had been recorded back in the middle of the 1900s were still there. Whether some were stolen, or whether they have all toppled and sunk in the mud and been overgrown is hard to know.
If you click on the first picture you can clearly see that fewer than 60 stones remain of the nearly 120 that were catalogued by Helen Meredith and her family and friends.
The second picture shows this "Ashcraft homeplace" - the SE 1/4 of Section 12 in Pike Township, with the Broomstick Cemetery in the northeast corner.
The third picture shows the original home - the SW 1/4 of Section 22, where two of Daniel and Catherine's daughters are buried in what is now called the McKee Cemetery.
The last two pictures show the location of Ashcraft Ridge shown on modern maps - Sections 8 and 14.
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