killed in 1855 in the Know-Nothing riot. He finally was positivly identified by Mrs. C. H. Shumleffel as her brother Andrew J. King, who had been buried on November 20, 1854.58 The boxes were re-interred on Lot 52 of Section 28 in Green Lawn Cemetery.
LATER REMOVALS
After 1881, the only remaining part of the
North Graveyard was the Brickell Addition, which the city did not pursue
in Common Pleas Court. Most of the graves were removed privately, but a
few remained there when the city condemned the land in 1889 for the
widening of Spruce street. The majority of the lot owners or their heirs
were awarded $200 for each lot, though the Graves heirs received $300 and
John Otstott received $400 because their lots were closer to High street
and adjacent to the lots which had already been developed on the Doherty
tract.59 Boxes from the Benignus, Nicholas
Maurer, and Eliza Middleton Fracker lots were re-interred on the city's
Lot 27 in Section 28 at Green Lawn.60
Though a thorough and conscientious job was
made of the removals, it was impossible to find every grave in the old
graveyard. In May of 1885 City Council61
adopted a resolution "instructing the City Civil Engineer to inquire into
the truth of rumors that bodies which were buried in the old North
graveyard are now being found by parties making excavations on the
premises, and if found to be correct that he cause the remains so found to
be interred in Greenlawn Cemetery." More remains were located in 1913 when
five additional boxes were buried on lot 27 with the removals from the
Brickell Addition.
NOTES
1. Deed 3/17
2.
Letter Book, pages 158-159
3. ibid, p. 159
4. Road Record 1/366
5. Letter Book, page 330; Columbus Gazette,
Nov. 4, 1824
6. Letter Book, page 397
7. ibid, pages 429 and 431
8. Deed 8/360
9.
Letter Book, page 436
10. Studer page 224; OSJ, June 5, 1873; Journal 1/490
11. Journal I/316
12. Journal I/89,180,253,316,419,463;
11/3,59,152,225,etc.
13. Journal I/374
14. Journal II/221
15. Journal II/212
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