Good morning, I made a little boo-boo in my original posting allow this one to clarify some things. We went looking for three cemeteries specifically: St. Peter's Cemetery off of Ridgewood Drive in Parma, Cuyahoga County, OH. Parma Heights. Historical Cemetery on Pearl Rd. in Parma Heights, Cuyahoga County, OH. Parma Historical Cemetery on York Rd. in Parma Heights, Cuyahoga County, OH. St. Peter's Cemetery is no longer there. No idea where it went, or when it went, but it's not there anymore. Parma Historical Cemetery we found, but looks like it hadn't been taken of in years. There was stones under shrubs, a lot of broken stones, etc. etc. We found no FAY graves there. Parma Heights Historical Cemetery was the one where we found the FAY graves we mentioned below. It was kept up very well, though it was not as large as we thought it would be. It only had a few broken stones, and, surprisingly is still being used. Of the stones we say the newest one had a deathdate of 1999. None of these cemeteries had any actual signs saying what cemetery they were, but they were fairly easy to find. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Shreve Sr. <gemon_hammersmythe@ameritech.net> To: <FAY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000 8:27 PM Subject: [FAY] FAY graves > Good morning all, > > My wife and I finally found the time to go cemetery searching. In the three > cemeteries we looked for, all mentioned in the book everyone on this list > should know by now, we found two of them, of which one was in an obvious > state of disrepair. In that one we did not find any FAY graves whatsoever. > We did luck out in the first one we stopped at though. > > Here's what we found: > > One large group stone that was like a tower > > On one side of the monument: > > BENNAJAR FAY (this is how it is spelled. i imagine jeremiah was a tad upset > about it) > DIED APR. 15, 1860 > AGED 85 YRS. > RUTH FAY > DIED SEPT. 16, 1831 > AGED 50 YRS > LOVINA FAY > DIED MAR. 17, 1872 > AGED 93 YRS > GEORGE W FAY > DIED MAR. 20, 1846 > AGED 11 YRS > > On the front side of the monument: > > JEREMIAH W > 1822 - 1913 > MARY A > 1836 - 1912 > > FAY (this is at base of monument) > > On other side of monument: > > ALBERT W FAY > SON OF J.W. & M.A. FAY > DIED JUNE 6, 1861 > AGED 1 YEAR 7 5 MOS. > WILLIAM N FAY > SON OF J.W. & M.A. FAY > DIED JULY 14, 1906 > AGED 51 YRS > > There is nothing written on the back side of the monument. > > I found around this central monument two individual gravestones > > One for GEORGE W FAY (no dates on it, just the name. If this is the FAY > mentioned on the monument, someone paid and put a fresh stone on it. Dr. > Dudley FAY would be my guess as to who.) > > Another for B F FAY (dates could not be read, but the stone was obviously > one of the older ones in the cemetery) > > There may be more gravestones around the monument, but we didn't feel like > shoveling snow. We'll make another trip when the snow is melted more. > > In the row directly in front of the FAY monument we found, we found two more > individual FAY stones. I'm sure there was more, but snow once again > presented a problem. > > BENEJAH FAY JR. > BORN > AUG. 6, 1806 > Died (these lines were in a different script) > JULY 24, 1849 > this stone was very readable, except for the death date which had some wear. > > LOVELL B > SON OF > B & L FAY > BORN > AUG. 23, 1848 > DIED > OCT 15, 1866 > this stone had writing below the death date, but snow and wear had made it > so it was not legible > > > Lovina FAY is probably Benejah FAY's sister, though in no references I've > seen so far is she mentioned as coming to Parma. Perhaps someone else on the > list can find other evidence of that. Just the same, the age of her death > matches that of his sister within 2 years. > > The George W FAY on the same side as Lovina, Bennajar, and Ruth FAY > intrigues me. He had to have been born in 1835 by my math. He, therefore had > to be a son of either Lovina FAY or Benejah FAY. If he is the son of Lovina, > he was born out of wedlock. Possible, but unlikely considering the day and > age. If he was the son of Benejah FAY his mother would have to be Rhoda > EDWARDS. That's more likely. He could also very well be the son of one of > the older FAY boys. I doubt that however, as the monument itself was > probably placed there by Jeremiah Wilcox FAY, evidenced by the fact that it > his name on the front of it. > > Lovell B FAY has got to be the son of Benejah FAY Jr., as there are no other > B. FAY's born to Benejah Sr. > > Just my take on things. > Jim & Elicia SHREVE