Dear Members of the Jefferson County, Ohio Mailing List, Including Thomas M. Bay, Bobbie Reihsen and Claire Sutton, The page of Bacon Ridge Cemetery information I have [amazing what you can do with one page!] has the following ALLEN burials: Aron 1850 age 79. wife Mary 1845 age 62 Sarah 1812 age 32 wife of John P. ALLEN James 1843 age 10 son of Moses and Elizabeth [stone buried in ground] Martha ? wife of John ALLEN James 1830 age 74 Next, let us look at whether Thomas BAY was in fact buried in Bacon Ridge Cemetery, or whether he was only mentioned as having been a founding member of the Presbyterian Church which was located next to the Bacon Ridge Cemetery but was not buried in the Bacon Ridge Cemetery. If you followed that last sentence, you're doing better than I! The 1964 description of Bacon Ridge Cemetery as found in Esther Powell's book, "Tombstone Inscriptions and Family Records of Jefferson County, Ohio" is as follows: "This cemetery is on County Road 59, west of Shane. It is a large, very old cemetery in very bad condition, with high weeds and briars, fallen stones and many badly sunken graves. Some of the stones are stacked in heaps and some graves marked with field stones. A mining project is close by. "A Presbyterian Church was organized here by Reverend George SCOTT. The first pastor was Reverend William MCMILLEN. The first church [building] was replaced in 1820. "First members included Arthur LATIMER, John P. MCMILLEN, Stephen COE, Thomas BAY, Calvin MOOREHEAD, Aaron ALLAN and Andrew DIXON. "Copied August 1964, assisted by grandson Richard HETRICK. "Notice: Many of THE ABOVE STONES [emphasis mine], discarded in heaps, probably will soon be gone. Does anyone care?" Even though the name "Thomas BAY" was not included in the listing of names on grave markers, below the introductory paragraph, and therefore was not in the Index or Supplemental Index to the book, nevertheless, the fact that compiler Esther Powell referred to "THE ABOVE STONES" immediately after she gave the names of some of the first members of the Presbyterian Church at Bacon Ridge, led me to assume that Ms. Powell found said names on the grave stones that had been stacked in heaps. One researcher mentioned that there were actually TWO Bacon Ridge Cemeteries, the one described by Esther Powell and another, older one nearby which was not included in the Powell book. Another factor to keep in mind is the strip mining operation which was conducted in the Bacon Ridge area. I have the 1995 map of Jefferson County produced by the DeLorme Company, and the words "Strip Mines" are printed along Bacon Ridge Road. Whether the devastation has increased since 1964 when Ms. Powell visited Bacon Ridge would have to assessed by someone actually going there and taking a look, in this ominous year of 1999. Randal W. Cooper, Member of the Computer Assisted Genealogy Group of Cleveland, Ohio <rwcooper@kellnet.com> Lorain, Ohio