Rogers - Webb Resurrection Day Cemetery
submitted by Peggy Woolfork
This large cemetery is in Section 21, township 50, range 31, about
one-eighth mile east of the McCune Home for Boys and one-fourth mile south of
Highway 24. It is marked by five rock illars on the south side, and a
chain link fence on the other sides, enclosing an area about 90 by 150 feet.
On one rock column is a stone plaque:
"Rogers - Webb Resurrection Day Cemetery
April 14, 1855."
On another column, a plaque reads:
"In Memoriam, Thomas Rogers, Penelope Chancellor Rogers,
Winslow Rogers, Nancy A. Webb Rogers, Sarah E. Rogers,
John M. Rogers. William W. Webb, John A. Webb, Margaret Webb."
It would seem that this may be the only list of burials there that we shall
ever have, because a probe of the area disclosed only five bases from which
the stones are missing, and a few shards. The cemetery is heavily
overgrown with trees, brambles, and poison ivy. One report says that a
Revolutionary War soldier, Joseph Powell, is buried here. He died in
1830 and so would have been buried here long before the cemetery was formally
established.
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