We will be traveling to Butler County to followup on our MURPHY, DOUGLASS and ASHTON ancestors. Several different Biographies about descendants of these early settlers of Butler County indicate that a number of their ancestors died in Butler County. However, I have searched the http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohbutler/ and not found any listing for their deaths or burials. I understand that early 1800 births and deaths were not recorded but, I had hoped to find them in the various online Cemetery listings but no luck. My question is, aside from researching land transactions looking for them, are there Cemetery Books that have not been posted on the Butler County OHGENWEB URL? If other cemetery listings are available where would we go to see these listings. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks -- Mike Brickner Clarksville, TN

Hazel Stroup's inventory of cemeteries in the 1960's is the most Butler County Wide listing. Yes- there are great problems with those inventories but from a comprehensive point of view they are the only lists. The Hanilton Lane library on 3rd st in Hamilton has the Stroup inventories and more updated inventories. The Hamilton Lane Library is close to the Butler County Records office and may be the easiest access. I'm sure the Smith Library in Oxford has loads of stuff but if you are in Hamilton consider Hamilton's branch of the Lane library. You can poke around http://www .rootweb.com/~ohbutcem/ to see if you have relatives in Liberty, Wayne, Lemon/Middletown and part of Madison Twp. There are just a few Murphy's, Cornelius Murphy line- in Liberty Twp. Springhill Cemetery near Huntsville. And just a few other early 1900's Murphy's in the Middletown Cemetery. You might want to consider stopping at the Engineers Office website to request a county map- www.bceo.org but their online may may be adequate for your needs. I've only been working on Cemeteries in the Eastern part of the county so I may not be of any help to you. If you could narrow down the townships local experts may appear. Caroline Huppi- Liberty Twp ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Brickner" <mbrick@gmail.com> To: <OHBUTLER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 11:04 AM Subject: [OHBUTLER-L] Planned Butler County Trip > We will be traveling to Butler County to followup on our MURPHY, DOUGLASS > and ASHTON ancestors. Several different Biographies about descendants of > these early settlers of Butler County indicate that a number of their > ancestors died in Butler County. However, I have searched the > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohbutler/ and not found any listing for their > deaths or burials. I understand that early 1800 births and deaths were not > recorded but, I had hoped to find them in the various online Cemetery > listings but no luck. My question is, aside from researching land > transactions looking for them, are there Cemetery Books that have not been > posted on the Butler County OHGENWEB URL? If other cemetery listings are > available where would we go to see these listings. Any advice would be > appreciated. > Thanks > > -- > Mike Brickner > Clarksville, TN > > > ==== OHBUTLER Mailing List ==== > A History and Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County Ohio ~ > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohbutler/cyc/index.html >

Thanks Caroline for the info. We were in Butler County in 2000 doing research, on our REED line, and visited the Records Archives and Land Records office. At the time we only casually looked at our Isaac Douglass line with without finding much. However, since then we have discovered additional connections that extended beyond 1836 when our Isaac removed his family to Hendricks County, Indiana. From the census information it appears that my MURPHY, DOUGLASS and ASHTON ancestors were from Pennsylvania and settled in Madison and Wayne Townships before 1820. I will try some of the links you suggested. We are going to spend at least two full days researching so we should have time check out a number of locations. I did pick up a Butler County plat map in 2000 so I know the layout of the County. On 8/19/05, Caroline Huppi <chuppi@cinci.rr.com> wrote: > > Hazel Stroup's inventory of cemeteries in the 1960's is the most Butler > County Wide listing. Yes- there are great problems with those inventories > but from a comprehensive point of view they are the only lists. The > Hanilton Lane library on 3rd st in Hamilton has the Stroup inventories and > more updated inventories. The Hamilton Lane Library is close to the Butler > County Records office and may be the easiest access. I'm sure the Smith > Library in Oxford has loads of stuff but if you are in Hamilton consider > Hamilton's branch of the Lane library. > > You can poke around http://www .rootweb.com/~ohbutcem/ to see if you have > relatives in Liberty, Wayne, Lemon/Middletown and part of Madison Twp. > > There are just a few Murphy's, Cornelius Murphy line- in Liberty Twp. > Springhill Cemetery near Huntsville. And just a few other early 1900's > Murphy's in the Middletown Cemetery. > > You might want to consider stopping at the Engineers Office website to > request a county map- www.bceo.org <http://www.bceo.org> but their online > may may be adequate for > your needs. > > I've only been working on Cemeteries in the Eastern part of the county so > I > may not be of any help to you. If you could narrow down the townships > local > experts may appear. > > Caroline Huppi- Liberty Twp > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Brickner" <mbrick@gmail.com> > To: <OHBUTLER-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 11:04 AM > Subject: [OHBUTLER-L] Planned Butler County Trip > > > > We will be traveling to Butler County to followup on our MURPHY, > DOUGLASS > > and ASHTON ancestors. Several different Biographies about descendants of > > these early settlers of Butler County indicate that a number of their > > ancestors died in Butler County. However, I have searched the > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohbutler/ and not found any listing for their > > deaths or burials. I understand that early 1800 births and deaths were > not > > recorded but, I had hoped to find them in the various online Cemetery > > listings but no luck. My question is, aside from researching land > > transactions looking for them, are there Cemetery Books that have not > been > > posted on the Butler County OHGENWEB URL? If other cemetery listings are > > available where would we go to see these listings. Any advice would be > > appreciated. > > Thanks > > > > -- > > Mike Brickner > > Clarksville, TN > > > > > > ==== OHBUTLER Mailing List ==== > > A History and Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County Ohio ~ > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohbutler/cyc/index.html > > > > > ==== OHBUTLER Mailing List ==== > To SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE: Send a message to: > OHBUTLER-L-request@rootsweb.com or OHBUTLER-D-request@rootsweb.com > Put SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE (whichever you want to do) > > -- Mike Brickner Clarksville, TN