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Mosser Cemetery

Also known as Mousser Cemetery

Lawrence Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, USA

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  • Get directions Glenpark Road NE (Township Road 617)
    Lawrence Township, Ohio 44612 United States
    Coordinates: 40.64558, -81.44300
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From Bolivar, take State Route 212 east to County Road 103 (North Orchard Road); on the Edward Richards property, on hillside overlooking the Tuscarawas River. No stones in memory of living citizens; Lebold tradition is that pioneers were buried, spot was never plowed while in possession of Lebold family.

1822 Burial Site:661, v. 4, p. 64. "Mo(u)sser Cemetery. Located in Lawrence township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio. No stones in memory of living citizens; Lebold tradition is that pioneers were buried, spot was never plowed while in possession of Lebold family.

1822 Burial Site:1372, p. 169. "A letter from C. J. Lebold, cashier of Bolivar State Bank, Bolivar, Ohio, Sept. 16, 1930, says, 'John Lebold was my grandfather, and purchased his home farm about 1830. My father's name is Samuel, and owned 200 acres directly east of the present Bolivar. The first cemetery your history mentions was located on my father's farm, right on the peak of the hill. As a small boy bringing the cows home from the pasture I would often count the sunken graves, and remember more than 30 years ago that occasionally in the spring another grave would sink. No doubt Abraham Mosser was buried in this cemetery'."

The cemetery map location is approximate.

The cemetery is located in Lawrence Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and is # 11787 (Mosser Cemetery / Mousser Cemetery) in "Ohio Cemeteries 1803-2003", compiled by the Ohio Genealogical Society.







From Bolivar, take State Route 212 east to County Road 103 (North Orchard Road); on the Edward Richards property, on hillside overlooking the Tuscarawas River. No stones in memory of living citizens; Lebold tradition is that pioneers were buried, spot was never plowed while in possession of Lebold family.

1822 Burial Site:661, v. 4, p. 64. "Mo(u)sser Cemetery. Located in Lawrence township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio. No stones in memory of living citizens; Lebold tradition is that pioneers were buried, spot was never plowed while in possession of Lebold family.

1822 Burial Site:1372, p. 169. "A letter from C. J. Lebold, cashier of Bolivar State Bank, Bolivar, Ohio, Sept. 16, 1930, says, 'John Lebold was my grandfather, and purchased his home farm about 1830. My father's name is Samuel, and owned 200 acres directly east of the present Bolivar. The first cemetery your history mentions was located on my father's farm, right on the peak of the hill. As a small boy bringing the cows home from the pasture I would often count the sunken graves, and remember more than 30 years ago that occasionally in the spring another grave would sink. No doubt Abraham Mosser was buried in this cemetery'."

The cemetery map location is approximate.

The cemetery is located in Lawrence Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and is # 11787 (Mosser Cemetery / Mousser Cemetery) in "Ohio Cemeteries 1803-2003", compiled by the Ohio Genealogical Society.







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