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Wise Family Graveyard

Unused for over 100 years, this cemetery has returned to the wooded wilderness in which the first settlers found it. The land on which it lays was first deeded by the United States to Jacob Wise on 8 Oct 1808. This is recorded in Miami County, Ohio Deed Book 26, page 547. It is located in the southwest quarter of Section 15, Range 4, Township 10. It is sometimes called the "Old Loxley Cemetery" after the Benjamin Loxley family who owned the farm on which it is situated many years later. It is approximately 100 by 30 feet in area. The readings listed were taken on 2 Jul 1977 by Lois Ann Baker, Diane Schrader and Joseph H. Bosserman and compared against earlier lists taken by Mrs. Jay Minnich in 1956 and Mr. Don Bowman in 1976. Evidently, from the ruins, there were nearly twice as many burials than can now be accounted for.

In December 1982, Mr. Robert Wise Hill of Covington, Ohio told me: QUOTE: "Many of the graves were removed from this cemetery to the
Old Harris Creek Cemetery in the early 1900's." jhb UNQUOTE

  MILLER, Michael, b: 27 Aug 1819  ed: 7 May 1884, age 64y 8m 10d
  WISE, Elizabeth, w/o Moses d: o Apr 1860, age 45y 3m
  MILLER, Magdalena, d: 8 Dec 1889, age 58y 11m 23d
          Ester, d/o M. & M., d: 11 Mar 1864, age 3y 8m 16d
  MINICH, Johnathan C., s/o D. & M. d: 28 May 1867, age 2m 8d
  MILLER, Isaac, s/o M. & M., d: 24 Mar 1849, age 1m 19d
          Inf, s/o M. & M., -stone broken, no age or date remaining-
  WISE, Isaac, s/o Jacob Jacob & C., d: 8 Oct 1859, age 20y 8m 16d
  MAURER, Andrew, s/o Jacob & Sarah, d: 31 Oct 1854, age 2y 2m 16d
          Fanny, d/o L. & S., d: 6 Oct 1862, age 5y 1m 17d
  W___,  Noah S., s/o Christina, d: 25 Aug 18__, age 19y 10m 1d -stone broken-
  WISE, Jacob  d: 28 Apr 1878, age 66y 8m
  WARNER, Angeline, d/o Daniel & Lucretia, d: 31 Oct 1839 -stone broken-
  WISE, John b: 29 Jul 1807  d: 1821
        John/Jacob d: 31 Oct 1845 -stone broken, first name was John or Jacob-
  SPITLER, David, s/o Henry & Susannah, d: 16 Nov 1850, age 7y 5m 14d
  WISE, Sally, d: 7 Oct 1822  No age given
        William, b: 16 May 1816  d: Aug 1829
        Nancy. b: 16 Apr 1821  d: 23 Mar 1839
  MILLER, Sarah, d/o J.W. & L.F., d: 10 Feb 1871, age 12d      <-(J or T?)
         Samuel, s/o T.W. & L.F. d: 26 May 1872, age 8y 8m 14d <-(T or J?)
  GAUBY, Rebecca, w/o Jacob E., d: 22 Mar 1865, age 26y 16d
  MAURER, Jacob, b: 20 Dec 1819  d: 28 Jun 1890, age 70y 6m 8d
          Sarah, b: 12 May 1818  d: 6 Jul 1896, age 78y 1m 24d
  BEANBLOSSOM, Margaret, w/o John, d: 28 Apr 1838, age 37y
  MINICH, Elizabeth, d/o D. & C. d: 2 Jun 1849, age 13y 10m 27d
  GAUBY, Inf d/o J.R. & A.  d: 26 Apr 1867  No age on stone
  INTER, A., 1843 -Hnad engraved fieldstone-
  MINICH, David, d: 1 May 1861  age 61y 7m 18d
         Catherine, w/o D., d: 17 Aug 1848, age 34y 9m 2d
  WISE, Mariah, d/o M. & J. d: 11 Feb 1862, age 12y 11m 6d
  MINICH, Orra F., s.o D. & M. d: 16 Mar 1848, age 4y 7m 18d
  MILLER, Inf d/o M. & M.  no age or dates given

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