My husband & I stopped at a cemetery on the east side of Cincinnati on the way home. We did not find the gravestones, but it turns out, the elder JAMES AGNEW was, in fact, buried here in Feb. 1881. However, he died on Christmas day 1880.
His daughter, Sarah B. Agnew died 6 mos. prior to him, at age 21 & is buried there also.
Then his wife MARY dies 2 years later, in Feb. 1883, almost 2 years to the day of when James was buried there.
I have found out they are buried in “section H”. Someone else found this out for me (below).
This information did confirm to me their birthdates, because in old cemetery records & on old stones, they tell how old the person was at death. This is the father of my great-grandfather James who lived in New Albany; or, if he was adopted then it is his adoptive father.
Now we may be able to find out if he was in the Shakers, & if so, there is a good chance that our GGrandfather James was adopted. Now I have to find out if there are adoption records. Wouldn’t that be exciting.
———- Forwarded message ———- From: <PhotoRequest@findagrave.com> Date: Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 12:26 AM Subject: Find A Grave Photo Request Problem – James Agnew To: ladybahai2@gmail.com
Greetings from Find A Grave,
Greetings from Find A Grave,
There are several books on the occupants of the Laurel Cemetery and one of them shows the three Agnews in Section H. I walked the section and could not find anything, but there are some older headstones that are hard to read and some open spaces. It was cold, so it wasn’t a stone by stone search. Here is the information on the three Agnews from the books.
James Agnew, D. Dec 25, 1880, Age 72 years, Occupation – Farmer, B, Ohio; Res. Montgomery, Ohio, Int, Sunday, Feb 13, 1881. Mary Agnew, D. Feb 11 1883, Age 55 years, Res. Montgomery, Ohio, Int, Wed, March 14, 1883. Sarah B Agnew, D. June 30, 1880, Age 21 years, B, Ohio, Res, Montgomery, Ohio, Int, Wed, July 7, 1880.
You may want to update the three records with Section H and somebody else might be able to get out there sometime soon to do a more through search.
Doctor Grandma 