Brown Cemetery
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Brown Cemetery

Maple Corner, Greene County, Ohio, USA

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    Maple Corner, Ohio 45385 United States
    Coordinates: 39.60060, -83.89288
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"DEED OF LAND" - Caesar Township, Green County, Ohio
Courthouse of Xenia, Ohio - Vol. 8 page 431
Land purchased by Godfrey Brown for $1,000 which included the Brown family cemetery in 1822. Edward Dromgoole Jr. and Peter Pelham were included in the transaction.

Description of land at the time of purchase:

----- sell unto the said Godfrey Brown a certain tract or parcel of land lying and being in the county of Greene & state of Ohio on the waters of Caesars Creek and being part of Warner & Addison Lewis survey No. 2238 for 1000 acres which said parcel or tract of land is bounded as follows viz Beginning at two dogwooods & hickory N.E. corner of Thomas Davis land thence south six degrees west one hundred and eighty nine poles to two hickories & an elm thence north eighty six degrees east two hundred and eighteen poles to two white oaks & iron wood corner to Philip Goode, thence north six degrees east one hundred & seventy eight poles along said Goodes line to two black gums and hickory in the old line thence along the old line of the original survey two hundred and sixteen poles to the beginning containing two hundred and fifty four acres ------

NOTE: This cemetery was not maintained, therefore most of the tombstones were destroyed.

Photo of cemetery was taken in 2008 by Catherine Jane Burch. Permission was given to use.

The cemetery is located in Caesars Creek Township, Greene County, Ohio, and is # 4248 (Brown Cemetery) in "Ohio Cemeteries 1803-2003", compiled by the Ohio Genealogical Society.









"DEED OF LAND" - Caesar Township, Green County, Ohio
Courthouse of Xenia, Ohio - Vol. 8 page 431
Land purchased by Godfrey Brown for $1,000 which included the Brown family cemetery in 1822. Edward Dromgoole Jr. and Peter Pelham were included in the transaction.

Description of land at the time of purchase:

----- sell unto the said Godfrey Brown a certain tract or parcel of land lying and being in the county of Greene & state of Ohio on the waters of Caesars Creek and being part of Warner & Addison Lewis survey No. 2238 for 1000 acres which said parcel or tract of land is bounded as follows viz Beginning at two dogwooods & hickory N.E. corner of Thomas Davis land thence south six degrees west one hundred and eighty nine poles to two hickories & an elm thence north eighty six degrees east two hundred and eighteen poles to two white oaks & iron wood corner to Philip Goode, thence north six degrees east one hundred & seventy eight poles along said Goodes line to two black gums and hickory in the old line thence along the old line of the original survey two hundred and sixteen poles to the beginning containing two hundred and fifty four acres ------

NOTE: This cemetery was not maintained, therefore most of the tombstones were destroyed.

Photo of cemetery was taken in 2008 by Catherine Jane Burch. Permission was given to use.

The cemetery is located in Caesars Creek Township, Greene County, Ohio, and is # 4248 (Brown Cemetery) in "Ohio Cemeteries 1803-2003", compiled by the Ohio Genealogical Society.









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