Powell Methodist Cemetery Cemetery
Truro Township,
Franklin County, Ohio

Gravestone Photographs

Powell Methodist Cemetery, located on the north side of Refugee Road between Brice Road and Gender Road (see map), is barely inside Truro Township.  The cemetery can only be said to have "suffered the ravages of time."  Only nine stones remain and a few of those only hint at who is buried there.  Items enclosed in brackets ( [ ] ) were taken from George E. Bareis' History of Madison County (for the complete citation see below).

Aerial Photo of Cemetery,
taken March/April 2000

Headstones:

(Click on the underlined name to view the photograph)

• Bish, Clarissa A., wife of J. [John] died [1867, age 38 y]

• Dovel, Catharine, wife of John, died Aug 22, 1878, aged 91 y 6 m 8 d

• Gray, Edgar M., son of J.A. & S., Dec 23, 1888-July 10, 1889

• Ogborn, Minnia E., dau of Wm. V. & Elizabeth, died Oct 18, 1874, aged 4 y 4 m & 11 d

• Powell [Contact: Maggi Rackley ()]
  • Archibald, died Sept 3, 1868, aged 83 ys, 9 m 2 d
  • Elizabeth, wife of A., died Apr 28, 1878, aged 85 y 10 m 6 d
  • Lucinda T., wife of J.D., died Oct 6, 1870, aged 28 y 6 m 3 d (Whole stone)

• Unknown
  • Broken gravestone and footstone
  • Malinda A., wife of [Ira L. Courtright, died 1849, aged 30 y]

Additional stones listed in George F. Bareis, History of Madison Township, including Groveport and Canal Winchester, Franklin County, Ohio, (Canal Winchester, Ohio : Geo. F. Bareis, publisher, 1902), page 466, and reprinted by the Franklin County Chapter Genealogical Society of Ohio in Franklin County, Ohio Cemeteries; Jefferson & Truro Townships, volume 3 of 11 volumes (Columbus 1981), page 46.

• Alspace, Ruth, wife of Joe, died 1879 aged 33 y
• Bish, John, died 1864 aged 36 y
• Conkile, Gertie A., dau of L. & S., died 1864, aged 1 y
• Frame, Daisey D., dau of A.P. & T.A., died 1877 age 5 y
• Geese, Clarisa A., dau of H. & C., died 1858, aged 16 d
• Gray
  • Clarisa E., dau of Alford & Rachel M., died 1862, aged 16 y
  • William A., son of Joseph A. & Sarah A., died 1868, aged 4 m
• McClure, James, died 1889 aged 60 y
• Powell
  • Joseph, died 1863 aged 76 y
  • Nancy O., dau of G. & N., died 1857 aged 1 y
  • Infant dau of J. & E. H., died 1847
• Peterman, Lovina J., dau of W.E. & M.A., died 1876 aged 33 y
• Swanger
  • John, died 1862 aged 52 y
  • Lily F., dau of W.M. & M.A., died 1878 aged 2 y
• Stevenson, Rebecca, wife of George, died 1857 aged 65 y
• Sprague, Rena A., dau of O.F. & R.M., died 1863 aged 1 y
• Whimer, Matilda, wife of William, died 1873 aged 65 y