Talk of Removing the Hitchock Burial Ground
“Some steps are being taken to remove the remains of parties buried in the Hitchcock graveyard, about two miles east of the city, to Greenlawn. This graveyard is now on the Rhodes farm, a large portion of which the new lumber company is to occupy. These removals should not be made and we presume will not be made without consulting the surviving friends of those who are interred.”
“From an old friend, Mr. John Basham, we learn about twenty-one persons are to be buried in this private graveyard. He recalls seventeen. Among them are Jesse Hitchcock and wife, three children of James Hitchcock, a son of Caleb Hitchcock, two Smith children, one of William Lawson’s children, Mr. Leggett and wife, Mr. Fuquay, Mr. Barr, wife and child.”
“The Hitchcock family was one of the oldest and most respected in the early annals of Scioto county. Its members have mostly moved away to the West and south, but before the remains of the dear departed, still remembered by many of our people, are removed, their living relatives should be consulted. John F Hitchcock, of Sorgbo, Kentucky, a lifelong subscriber to the Times, who left here nearly a quarter of a century ago, should be corresponded with.1
