Lorain couple finds 1864 headstone in backyard (with video)
Thursday, August 18, 2011
By ALLISON STROUSE
[email protected]
LORAIN — It is the last thing anyone would expect to find when cleaning the shrubs in their backyard.
What Tarrence Scott, 24, of Lorain, thought was a piece of brick turned out to be a headstone.
Scott was cleaning the backyard of the home he rents on West 23rd Street yesterday evening when he uncovered a headstone placed firmly in the ground.
"I was just standing there looking at it like, ‘Damn,'" Scott said. "There might be a body under there I don't know."Lorain couple finds 1864 headstone in backyard (with video)
Thursday, August 18, 2011
By ALLISON STROUSE
[email protected]
LORAIN — It is the last thing anyone would expect to find when cleaning the shrubs in their backyard.
What Tarrence Scott, 24, of Lorain, thought was a piece of brick turned out to be a headstone.
Scott was cleaning the backyard of the home he rents on West 23rd Street yesterday evening when he uncovered a headstone placed firmly in the ground.
"I was just standing there looking at it like, ‘Damn,'" Scott said. "There might be a body under there I don't know."
Friday, August 19, 2011
By ALLISON STROUSE
[email protected]
LORAIN — The headstone Terrance and Jennifer Scott found in the back yard of their West 23rd Street rental home, has generated lots of interest and speculation as to where it came from.
Some people, including Nesbitt Burton Jr., believe the headstone belongs at Andress Cemetery in Henrietta Township.
He referenced "Cemetery Inscriptions of Lorain County," which was published in 1980. He believes the grave marker was taken after the 1980s but is unable to say for sure.
A picture was sent in by Kevin Myers showing the grave marker of Simeon Shepard at the Andress Cemetery. The picture shows a tall white stone column, unlike the flat short stone found in the Scott's back yard.
Some readers left comments on The Morning Journals website.
Weneedchange stated that they too know where the headstone belonged.
"I think I know where that stone came from," they said. "On the corner of 22nd and Pole there use to be a cemetery and the stones there mysteriously vanished."
Other readers just stated their disbelief about the stone and Shepard's age, like Sloucho Marx.
"I find it amazing that someone in them days lived until they were 82 years old," Sloucho Marx wrote.
The grave stone was found Wednesday when Terrance Scott was clearing shrubs in the backyard. "I was just standing there looking at it like, ‘Damn,'" Scott said. "There might be a body under there I don't know."
The tombstone reads,
Simeon Shepard
Died
June 16 1864
Aged 82 years and 16 days.
Jennifer Scott said she got in touch with her landlord who knew the head stone was there.
"She said she contacted someone about it," Jennifer Scott said. "They told they couldn't do anything and she forgot about it."
The Scotts were instructed by police not to touch the stone until someone from the cemetery could come out and look at it. It is unknown how the tombstone got to the West 23rd Street homes backyard.
Speculation continues over headstone
Saturday, August 20, 2011
By ALLISON STROUSE
[email protected]
LORAIN — After two days of searching and calling, the mystery behind why Simeon Shepard's headstone is in the back yard of a West 23 Street, Lorain, home isn't known, but there is a plausible theory.
"It was either replaced or stolen," Diane Wargo Medina said.
Since she was 19 years-old, Medina has been helping care for the Charleston Village Cemetery on West Sixth Street, Lorain.
So when she heard about the backyard tombstone she was determined to discover where Shepard came from and belonged.
Her investigation ended up being very fruitful, as she studied U.S. Census and death records.
"The date of death matches and they were from the Lorain County area," she said.
There is a monument at Andress Cemetery with Simeon and his wife, Aseneth, names. Aseneth passed away a few years after Simeon.
Which is one of the reasons, Medina believed that the headstone could have been replaced.
Whether the stone ended in the West 23rd Street back yard by accident or on purpose, she believes it belongs in one place only.
"I personally think that (the headstone) should go back over there (cemetery)," she said.
Medina, who repairs headstone at the West Sixth Street cemetery, stated that she would be happy to help relocate and repair the stone.
"I will gladly repair it," she said. "It should go back."
While the mystery of how the headstone ended up in the backyard may never be solved, the mystery of who Shepard was has been.
Shepard was a farmer, born in Massachusetts, who moved to Henrietta with his wife, Aseneth and their daughter, Sarah Shepard, according to the website familysearch.org.
He died in 1864 at age 82 years and 16 days, according to the grave stone.
URL: http://www.morningjournal.com/articles/2011/08/20/news/mj4931603.prt
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
By ALLISON STROUSE
[email protected]
LORAIN — It is the last thing anyone would expect to find when cleaning the shrubs in their backyard.
What Tarrence Scott, 24, of Lorain, thought was a piece of brick turned out to be a headstone.
Scott was cleaning the backyard of the home he rents on West 23rd Street yesterday evening when he uncovered a headstone placed firmly in the ground.
"I was just standing there looking at it like, ‘Damn,'" Scott said. "There might be a body under there I don't know."Lorain couple finds 1864 headstone in backyard (with video)
Thursday, August 18, 2011
By ALLISON STROUSE
[email protected]
LORAIN — It is the last thing anyone would expect to find when cleaning the shrubs in their backyard.
What Tarrence Scott, 24, of Lorain, thought was a piece of brick turned out to be a headstone.
Scott was cleaning the backyard of the home he rents on West 23rd Street yesterday evening when he uncovered a headstone placed firmly in the ground.
"I was just standing there looking at it like, ‘Damn,'" Scott said. "There might be a body under there I don't know."
Friday, August 19, 2011
By ALLISON STROUSE
[email protected]
LORAIN — The headstone Terrance and Jennifer Scott found in the back yard of their West 23rd Street rental home, has generated lots of interest and speculation as to where it came from.
Some people, including Nesbitt Burton Jr., believe the headstone belongs at Andress Cemetery in Henrietta Township.
He referenced "Cemetery Inscriptions of Lorain County," which was published in 1980. He believes the grave marker was taken after the 1980s but is unable to say for sure.
A picture was sent in by Kevin Myers showing the grave marker of Simeon Shepard at the Andress Cemetery. The picture shows a tall white stone column, unlike the flat short stone found in the Scott's back yard.
Some readers left comments on The Morning Journals website.
Weneedchange stated that they too know where the headstone belonged.
"I think I know where that stone came from," they said. "On the corner of 22nd and Pole there use to be a cemetery and the stones there mysteriously vanished."
Other readers just stated their disbelief about the stone and Shepard's age, like Sloucho Marx.
"I find it amazing that someone in them days lived until they were 82 years old," Sloucho Marx wrote.
The grave stone was found Wednesday when Terrance Scott was clearing shrubs in the backyard. "I was just standing there looking at it like, ‘Damn,'" Scott said. "There might be a body under there I don't know."
The tombstone reads,
Simeon Shepard
Died
June 16 1864
Aged 82 years and 16 days.
Jennifer Scott said she got in touch with her landlord who knew the head stone was there.
"She said she contacted someone about it," Jennifer Scott said. "They told they couldn't do anything and she forgot about it."
The Scotts were instructed by police not to touch the stone until someone from the cemetery could come out and look at it. It is unknown how the tombstone got to the West 23rd Street homes backyard.
Speculation continues over headstone
Saturday, August 20, 2011
By ALLISON STROUSE
[email protected]
LORAIN — After two days of searching and calling, the mystery behind why Simeon Shepard's headstone is in the back yard of a West 23 Street, Lorain, home isn't known, but there is a plausible theory.
"It was either replaced or stolen," Diane Wargo Medina said.
Since she was 19 years-old, Medina has been helping care for the Charleston Village Cemetery on West Sixth Street, Lorain.
So when she heard about the backyard tombstone she was determined to discover where Shepard came from and belonged.
Her investigation ended up being very fruitful, as she studied U.S. Census and death records.
"The date of death matches and they were from the Lorain County area," she said.
There is a monument at Andress Cemetery with Simeon and his wife, Aseneth, names. Aseneth passed away a few years after Simeon.
Which is one of the reasons, Medina believed that the headstone could have been replaced.
Whether the stone ended in the West 23rd Street back yard by accident or on purpose, she believes it belongs in one place only.
"I personally think that (the headstone) should go back over there (cemetery)," she said.
Medina, who repairs headstone at the West Sixth Street cemetery, stated that she would be happy to help relocate and repair the stone.
"I will gladly repair it," she said. "It should go back."
While the mystery of how the headstone ended up in the backyard may never be solved, the mystery of who Shepard was has been.
Shepard was a farmer, born in Massachusetts, who moved to Henrietta with his wife, Aseneth and their daughter, Sarah Shepard, according to the website familysearch.org.
He died in 1864 at age 82 years and 16 days, according to the grave stone.
URL: http://www.morningjournal.com/articles/2011/08/20/news/mj4931603.prt
© 2011 morningjournal.com, a Journal Register Property
Lorain couple finds 1864 headstone in backyard (with video)
Thursday, August 18, 2011
By ALLISON STROUSE
[email protected]
LORAIN — It is the last thing anyone would expect to find when cleaning the shrubs in their backyard.
What Tarrence Scott, 24, of Lorain, thought was a piece of brick turned out to be a headstone.
Scott was cleaning the backyard of the home he rents on West 23rd Street yesterday evening when he uncovered a headstone placed firmly in the ground.
"I was just standing there looking at it like, ‘Damn,'" Scott said. "There might be a body under there I don't know."Lorain couple finds 1864 headstone in backyard (with video)
Thursday, August 18, 2011
By ALLISON STROUSE
[email protected]
LORAIN — It is the last thing anyone would expect to find when cleaning the shrubs in their backyard.
What Tarrence Scott, 24, of Lorain, thought was a piece of brick turned out to be a headstone.
Scott was cleaning the backyard of the home he rents on West 23rd Street yesterday evening when he uncovered a headstone placed firmly in the ground.
"I was just standing there looking at it like, ‘Damn,'" Scott said. "There might be a body under there I don't know."
Friday, August 19, 2011
By ALLISON STROUSE
[email protected]
LORAIN — The headstone Terrance and Jennifer Scott found in the back yard of their West 23rd Street rental home, has generated lots of interest and speculation as to where it came from.
Some people, including Nesbitt Burton Jr., believe the headstone belongs at Andress Cemetery in Henrietta Township.
He referenced "Cemetery Inscriptions of Lorain County," which was published in 1980. He believes the grave marker was taken after the 1980s but is unable to say for sure.
A picture was sent in by Kevin Myers showing the grave marker of Simeon Shepard at the Andress Cemetery. The picture shows a tall white stone column, unlike the flat short stone found in the Scott's back yard.
Some readers left comments on The Morning Journals website.
Weneedchange stated that they too know where the headstone belonged.
"I think I know where that stone came from," they said. "On the corner of 22nd and Pole there use to be a cemetery and the stones there mysteriously vanished."
Other readers just stated their disbelief about the stone and Shepard's age, like Sloucho Marx.
"I find it amazing that someone in them days lived until they were 82 years old," Sloucho Marx wrote.
The grave stone was found Wednesday when Terrance Scott was clearing shrubs in the backyard. "I was just standing there looking at it like, ‘Damn,'" Scott said. "There might be a body under there I don't know."
The tombstone reads,
Simeon Shepard
Died
June 16 1864
Aged 82 years and 16 days.
Jennifer Scott said she got in touch with her landlord who knew the head stone was there.
"She said she contacted someone about it," Jennifer Scott said. "They told they couldn't do anything and she forgot about it."
The Scotts were instructed by police not to touch the stone until someone from the cemetery could come out and look at it. It is unknown how the tombstone got to the West 23rd Street homes backyard.
Speculation continues over headstone
Saturday, August 20, 2011
By ALLISON STROUSE
[email protected]
LORAIN — After two days of searching and calling, the mystery behind why Simeon Shepard's headstone is in the back yard of a West 23 Street, Lorain, home isn't known, but there is a plausible theory.
"It was either replaced or stolen," Diane Wargo Medina said.
Since she was 19 years-old, Medina has been helping care for the Charleston Village Cemetery on West Sixth Street, Lorain.
So when she heard about the backyard tombstone she was determined to discover where Shepard came from and belonged.
Her investigation ended up being very fruitful, as she studied U.S. Census and death records.
"The date of death matches and they were from the Lorain County area," she said.
There is a monument at Andress Cemetery with Simeon and his wife, Aseneth, names. Aseneth passed away a few years after Simeon.
Which is one of the reasons, Medina believed that the headstone could have been replaced.
Whether the stone ended in the West 23rd Street back yard by accident or on purpose, she believes it belongs in one place only.
"I personally think that (the headstone) should go back over there (cemetery)," she said.
Medina, who repairs headstone at the West Sixth Street cemetery, stated that she would be happy to help relocate and repair the stone.
"I will gladly repair it," she said. "It should go back."
While the mystery of how the headstone ended up in the backyard may never be solved, the mystery of who Shepard was has been.
Shepard was a farmer, born in Massachusetts, who moved to Henrietta with his wife, Aseneth and their daughter, Sarah Shepard, according to the website familysearch.org.
He died in 1864 at age 82 years and 16 days, according to the grave stone.
URL: http://www.morningjournal.com/articles/2011/08/20/news/mj4931603.prt
© 2011 morningjournal.com, a Journal Register Property
Thursday, August 18, 2011
By ALLISON STROUSE
[email protected]
LORAIN — It is the last thing anyone would expect to find when cleaning the shrubs in their backyard.
What Tarrence Scott, 24, of Lorain, thought was a piece of brick turned out to be a headstone.
Scott was cleaning the backyard of the home he rents on West 23rd Street yesterday evening when he uncovered a headstone placed firmly in the ground.
"I was just standing there looking at it like, ‘Damn,'" Scott said. "There might be a body under there I don't know."Lorain couple finds 1864 headstone in backyard (with video)
Thursday, August 18, 2011
By ALLISON STROUSE
[email protected]
LORAIN — It is the last thing anyone would expect to find when cleaning the shrubs in their backyard.
What Tarrence Scott, 24, of Lorain, thought was a piece of brick turned out to be a headstone.
Scott was cleaning the backyard of the home he rents on West 23rd Street yesterday evening when he uncovered a headstone placed firmly in the ground.
"I was just standing there looking at it like, ‘Damn,'" Scott said. "There might be a body under there I don't know."
Friday, August 19, 2011
By ALLISON STROUSE
[email protected]
LORAIN — The headstone Terrance and Jennifer Scott found in the back yard of their West 23rd Street rental home, has generated lots of interest and speculation as to where it came from.
Some people, including Nesbitt Burton Jr., believe the headstone belongs at Andress Cemetery in Henrietta Township.
He referenced "Cemetery Inscriptions of Lorain County," which was published in 1980. He believes the grave marker was taken after the 1980s but is unable to say for sure.
A picture was sent in by Kevin Myers showing the grave marker of Simeon Shepard at the Andress Cemetery. The picture shows a tall white stone column, unlike the flat short stone found in the Scott's back yard.
Some readers left comments on The Morning Journals website.
Weneedchange stated that they too know where the headstone belonged.
"I think I know where that stone came from," they said. "On the corner of 22nd and Pole there use to be a cemetery and the stones there mysteriously vanished."
Other readers just stated their disbelief about the stone and Shepard's age, like Sloucho Marx.
"I find it amazing that someone in them days lived until they were 82 years old," Sloucho Marx wrote.
The grave stone was found Wednesday when Terrance Scott was clearing shrubs in the backyard. "I was just standing there looking at it like, ‘Damn,'" Scott said. "There might be a body under there I don't know."
The tombstone reads,
Simeon Shepard
Died
June 16 1864
Aged 82 years and 16 days.
Jennifer Scott said she got in touch with her landlord who knew the head stone was there.
"She said she contacted someone about it," Jennifer Scott said. "They told they couldn't do anything and she forgot about it."
The Scotts were instructed by police not to touch the stone until someone from the cemetery could come out and look at it. It is unknown how the tombstone got to the West 23rd Street homes backyard.
Speculation continues over headstone
Saturday, August 20, 2011
By ALLISON STROUSE
[email protected]
LORAIN — After two days of searching and calling, the mystery behind why Simeon Shepard's headstone is in the back yard of a West 23 Street, Lorain, home isn't known, but there is a plausible theory.
"It was either replaced or stolen," Diane Wargo Medina said.
Since she was 19 years-old, Medina has been helping care for the Charleston Village Cemetery on West Sixth Street, Lorain.
So when she heard about the backyard tombstone she was determined to discover where Shepard came from and belonged.
Her investigation ended up being very fruitful, as she studied U.S. Census and death records.
"The date of death matches and they were from the Lorain County area," she said.
There is a monument at Andress Cemetery with Simeon and his wife, Aseneth, names. Aseneth passed away a few years after Simeon.
Which is one of the reasons, Medina believed that the headstone could have been replaced.
Whether the stone ended in the West 23rd Street back yard by accident or on purpose, she believes it belongs in one place only.
"I personally think that (the headstone) should go back over there (cemetery)," she said.
Medina, who repairs headstone at the West Sixth Street cemetery, stated that she would be happy to help relocate and repair the stone.
"I will gladly repair it," she said. "It should go back."
While the mystery of how the headstone ended up in the backyard may never be solved, the mystery of who Shepard was has been.
Shepard was a farmer, born in Massachusetts, who moved to Henrietta with his wife, Aseneth and their daughter, Sarah Shepard, according to the website familysearch.org.
He died in 1864 at age 82 years and 16 days, according to the grave stone.
URL: http://www.morningjournal.com/articles/2011/08/20/news/mj4931603.prt
© 2011 morningjournal.com, a Journal Register Property
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