Hi Morris, Thanks for your kind offer. I'll contact you in the fall when the foliage begins to leave. I suppose you live in the area. I live abt 20 miles west in Fayette county IN. Chuck Counceller Connersville, IN ----- Original Message ----- From: <MPorris@aol.com> To: <OHBUTLER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 10:22 PM Subject: [OHBUTLER-L] Freeman Cem. location > > It's hard to describe how to get to the Freeman Cem. The site that I > found was verified to have been a cemetery by Tom Stander, a local > cemetery/history buff. The site also fits a description of the location as > given in a local > paper from about 1880. The only remnants that I found were a concrete base > with > a slot that could have held a headstone and several field stones that > seemed > to have been part of headstones. Tom said the area had been bulldozed. It > is > quite brushy. It's been said that a nearby farmer had used the stones to > make a > path. The owner of the old Coulter farmhouse says that some are in her > yard. > Location: northeast out of Oxford on Bonham Rd., right (south) on > Hillcrest Dr., continue on short private dirt road, no place to park, > trespass on > private property for several hundred yards going generally south. > I am willing to lead those who are interested via a longer walking > route > that avoids walking by the nearby houses. The area can be better seen > after > the leaves fall. Please realize that their is virtually nothing to see, we > would > be mostly bushwhacking and using deer trails, and I will probably make a > few > wrong turns. > > Morris Peters MPorris@aol.com > > > ==== OHBUTLER Mailing List ==== > Butler County American History & Genealogy Project > http://www.usgennet.org/usa/oh/county/butler > >