Does anyone have a record of the others whose graves were moved from near the Post? Could they have been military men also? Just wondering. RKD ----- Original Message ----- From: "Debbie Noland Nitsche" <[email protected]> To: "Washington Co LIST" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 12:02 PM Subject: [OHWashin] Hero's Place in History Rests in Marietta > Check it out in today's edition of the Marietta Times. Below is the url > to > the article. > > http://www.mariettatimes.com/page/content.detail/id/511812.html?nav=5002 > > > > > > Debbie Noland Nitsche > [email protected] > > Historical Marietta, Ohio on MySpace > http://www.myspace.com/historicalmariettaohio > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > To contact the OHWASHIN list administrator, send an email to > [email protected] > > To post a message to the OHWASHIN mailing list, send an email to > [email protected] > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.238 / Virus Database: 270.11.37/2036 - Release Date: 04/01/09 21:02:00

Only 2 people could be identified. But they COULD very well be RW soldiers, wifes and/or children. I don't think we will ever know the answer. Read the below articles that Ernie found and I extracted. I sent the articles and Scott Britton's photos to Varnum Cont. and that is what got the ball rolling on this. I'm so happy, and I will def. be there front and center when they place his headstone. Marietta Register Thursday, November 2, 1871 RESURRECTION OF PIONEERS The City Council recently passed an order for the removal of the remains of persons buried on the ridge just south of Oak Grove Cemetery. This ridge was the site of the first burial ground in Marietta, laid out as a cemetery by the Ohio Company at the foundation of the city, in 1788. It was abandoned as a cemetery, about seventy years ago. During the Indian War, 1791-'95, this ground, being in an exposed situation, was forsaken, and burials were made on the brow of the sand hill, now dug off, just above Wooster street, on the line of Third. March 13, 1791, CAPT. JOSEPH ROGERS, one of the spies or rangers of the garrison at Campus Martius, was killed by the Indians on the side hill, above the present residence of WM. R. PUTNAM. His body was brought in the next day, and buried in Third street, then unimproved. A daughter of Gov. ST. CLAIR, named Margaret, a son of MAJ. EZRA PUTNAM, MATTHEW KERR, killed by Indians, June 17, 1791, and probably JAMES WELLS and wife and daughter, and others, who died of small pox, in 1793, W. MOULTON, with others, were buried there. About the year 1839, the remains of most were exhumed, and re-interred in Mound Cemetery. There were some graves still remaining immediately back of Third Street as late as 1849. GEN. BENJAMIN TUPPER, who died in 1792, was buried under an apple tree between Third and Fourth, opposite the Quadranaou, on Warren street, also a child of COL. ICHABOD NYE, and at a later date, MAJ. ANSELM TUPPER. But these remains were removed to Mound Cemetery, about 1820. After the Indian War, there were others burials on the ridge, in the original cemetery, which was abandoned in 1801, on the opening of Mound Cemetery. How many were buried there is impossible now to tell, as no record has been preserved, and even the names of most have been lost. As complete a list as we can now make out---A little daughter of COL. NATHANIEL CUSHING, aged 13, died Aug. 25, 1788, the first death in Marietta. GEN. JAMES MITCHELL VARNUM, Director in the Ohio Company, died on consumption, Jan. 10, 1789. Several children died of measles, November, 1789. MR. WELCH, landed from a boat bound for Kentucky, and died of small pox, January 1790. Eight persons who died of small pox, brought here by MR. WELCH. MRS. ROWENA SARGENT, died in 1790, and daughter of Gen. BENJ. TUPPER, married Feb. 6, 1789, in Campus Martius, by GEN. RUFUS PUTNAM,, (a judge,) to COL. WINTHROP SARGENT, Secretary of the Ohio Company, also of the Northwest Territory-the first marriage here. MRS. SHEPARD, first wife of COL. ENOCH SHEPARD. MRS. CLARK, first wife of MAJ. JOHN CLARK, also a son of hers, perhaps 12 years old. CAPT. JOSIAH MONROE, a member of the Ohio Company, coming here with the first forty-eight, who landed April 7, 1788. He was appointed the first Postmaster in 1794, was a Justice of the Peace, lived and kept the Post-Office, near where the store of Bosworth, Wells & Co. now stands, and from him was named Monroe street, running there from Front to Muskingum. Also MR. BOUTELLE, who came here as a Tutor in the College, and within three weeks died of small pox, June 13, 1835, in a cabin near this ridge, was buried there. The remains of CAPT. MONROE were removed to Mound Cemetery, last winter. The work of exhuming the remains was faithfully done-as well as could be at this date-last week, and the week before, under the direction of WM. WARREN, who opened twenty-six graves, and re-interred the remains in twenty-six newly made graves, in two rows, on an elevated and beautiful lot in Oak Grove Cemetery. The appearance of some graves there was probably entirely obliterated, certainly that of all the children, their small bodies not causing enough of falling in of the earth to distinguish the spot. Stones had been erected at several of the graves, but time and the want of care had broken or removed or defaced all, so no inscription could now be seen. None of the twenty-six could be certainly indentified, except the remains of GEN. VARNUM, and MR. BOUTELLE. In GEN. VARNUM'S grave were found four handsome vest buttons of gilt and dark blue glasses. He was very stylish in his dress. The coffins had generally gone to dust, although in several cases the shape was clearly defined. Of those made of black walnut, parts were taken out of about the firmness of moss. The wrought nails of the early coffins were found, with the hinges, and the cut nails of the coffin of MR. BOUTELLE, of later date. In one case, a brass pin was distinctly seen on the top of a skull, where it had been placed in pinning a handkerchief, but on touching it crumbled to dust. The hair was found, but in a decayed state mixed with the earth. The skulls were generally taken out whole, with many sound teeth, also most of the large bones of the arms and legs. MARIETTA REGISTER Thursday Morning, Nov. 9, 1871 GEN. JAMES M. VARNUM In our notice, last week, of the recent removal of the remains from the first burial place in Marietta to Oak Grove Cemetery, we mentioned as one of those whose remains could now be identified, GEN. JAMES MITCHELL VARNUM, Director in the Ohio Company, died of consumption, Jan. 10, 1789. As GEN. VARNUM was a man of note, it may not be uninteresting to our readers to know something of him, whose remains were exhumed two weeks ago, from the place where they had rested nearly eighty-three years. JAMES M. VARNUM was born in Dracut, Mass., in 1749, immediately north of the present city of Lowell. His great-grandfather came from Wales, and bought the land from the Indians, at Dracut, where he settled in 1664. The farm still remains in the VARNUM family, unless it has changed hands within a few years. He graduated at Brown University, Rhode Island, in its first class, in 1769; read law in Providence; settled at East Greenwich, R. I.; and married MISS MARTHA CHILDE. His talents soon acquired him an extensive law practice. He had a taste for military affairs, and in 1774 became commander of the Kentish Guards, a company in which NATHANIEL GREENE was then a private, who afterwards rose to such fame as Major General in the Revolutionary Army, and to which army this company furnished thirty-two commissioned officers. In 1775, VARNUM became Colonel in the Revolutionary Army, Brigadier General in 1777, resigned in 1779, and became Major General in the Rhode Island militia in the same year. In 1780, he was elected to the old Congress, and again in 1786. He was known as a man of common talents and brilliant eloquence. His brother JOSEPH B. VARNUM, was sixteen years a Representative in Congress, from 1795 to 1811, the last four years Speaker of the House, and then he was in the United States Senate six years, 1811-'17. GENERAL VARNUM became a Director in the Ohio Land Company, August, 1787. The first settlers, as it is well known, arrived at Marietta, April 7, 1788. GEN. VARNUM came here, by way of Baltimore, early in June following, and within a month delivered the first Fourth of July Oration in Marietta. It was printed, and was an eloquent production. He was in failing health when he came and lived only seven months, dying of consumption, aged forty. He left no children, but his accomplished wife survived him forty-eight years, dying in Bristol, R. I., in 1837, aged 88. The funeral was one of great mark; The Military was under CAPT. DAVID ZIEGLER, from Fort Harmar. MR. WHEATON bore the sword and commission of the deceased; MR. MAYO, the diploma and order of the Society of Cincinnati; MR. LORD, the civil commission, (Judge of the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territory;) and MR. FEARING, the insignia of masonry. The pall-bearers were GENERALS PUTNAM AND TUPPER, Secretary SARGENT, GRIFFIN GREEN, Esq., and Judges CRARY and PARSONS. Private mourners, civil officers, the masons, Indian Chiefs - who were here at the treaty, the day before - and citizens generally followed to the grave. DR. SOLOMON DROWN, from Rhode Island, delivered the funeral oration. We spoke, last week, of four elegant vest buttons found in the grave of GEN. VARNUM, on the removal of his remains, and remarked that he was "very stylish in his dress." His last appearance in Court in Rhode Island, in a very important case, just before he came to Marietta, in thus described: "GEN VARNUM appeared in a brick colored coat, trimmed with gold lace; buckskin small clothes, with gold lace band; sick stockings and boots; a high delicate and white forehead; eyes prominent and of a dark hue; complexion father florid; somewhat corpulent; well proportioned, and finely formed for nose straight and rather broad; teeth perfectly white; a profuse head of hair, short on the forehead, turned up son, and deeply powdered and clubbed. When brushed up his hair forward, with a fascinating smile lighting up his countenance, he took his seat in Court." It was the fashion for gentlemen to be elegantly dressed in those days, and GEN. VARNUM was doubtless dressed fully up to the highest style. It may be remarked, that GEN. VARNUM proposed the emancipation of the slaves in Rhode Island, in time of the Revolutionary War, on condition that they enlisted in the army for the war; GEN. WASHINGTON approved; GOV. COOKE, of that State, endorsed it; and the measure was carried into effect. Extracted by Debbie Noland Nitsche [email protected] Names were captialized for easy identfication. Debbie Noland Nitsche [email protected] Historical Marietta, Ohio on MySpace http://www.myspace.com/historicalmariettaohio ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ruth Dennis" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 9:37 PM Subject: Re: [OHWashin] Hero's Place in History Rests in Marietta > Does anyone have a record of the others whose graves were moved from near > the Post? Could they have been military men also? > > Just wondering. > > RKD > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Debbie Noland Nitsche" <[email protected]> > To: "Washington Co LIST" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 12:02 PM > Subject: [OHWashin] Hero's Place in History Rests in Marietta > > >> Check it out in today's edition of the Marietta Times. 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