Caroline Buck

Caroline Buck was the daughter of J. and M. Buck. Her tombstone is found in Deyo Cemetery in Erie County. It is quite difficult to read the inscription on Caroline's grave marker, but it appears that Caroline was born in 1878 and died in 1885.

Young Caroline most likely belongs to the family of John Buck, whose family is listed in the 1880 U.S. Census for Erie County. The family members are:

Adults in the family:

John Buck, age 45, occupation farmer,born in Wuerttemberg

Margaret, age 36,
born in Wuerttemberg

Children in the family:

William, age 16, born in Wuerttemberg
Charles, age 13, born in Wuerttemberg
Frederick, age 9, born in Ohio
Mary J., age 8, born in Ohio
John, age 5, born in Ohio
Caroline, age 2, born in Ohio
Christian, age 1, born in Ohio

Lansford W. Hastings, Civil War Veteran

Lansford W. Hastings died on June 16, 1913, in his home near Parkertown, Ohio. (Parkertown is an unincorporated area of Erie County in Groton Township, about four miles south of Castalia.)

The listing in the 1890 Veterans Schedule, available on the database Ancestry Library Edition, provides us with the Civil War unit in which Lansford W. Hastings served: the 145h Ohio Volunteer Infantry. A search on the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors network gives his name as "Sanford W. Hastings."

An obituary for Lansford W. Hastings appeared in the June 18, 1913 issue of the Sandusky Register. His funeral was held at the Parkertown schoolhouse on June 18, 1913. He was survived by six sons and two daughters. Burial was in Deyo Cemetery (called Bowlus Cemetery in the newspaper article.)

Lansford W. Hastings, who was born in 1836 and died in 1913, is not to be confused with another well known Lansford W. Hastings, also born in Ohio. Lansford Warren Hastings (1819-1870) wrote The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California , which was the guidebook used by the Donner Party.

Reuben Smith

Reuben Smith was born on May 13, 1820, and died on May 16, 1900. He is buried in Deyo Cemetery. A symbol from the Independent Order of Odd Fellows is found on Mr. Smith's grave marker.

An obituary from the May 24, 1900 issue of the Clyde Democrat read:

Reuben Smith, father of Mrs. W. A. Trump of this place, died at Detroit last Thursday, and the remains were brought here and interred in the Deyo cemetery. Mr. Smith was quite well known in Clyde.

It is clear that Reuben Smith, who died over one hundred years ago, is still remembered, as evidenced by the beautiful floral tribute upon his tombstone.

George W. Fleming

A brief biographical sketch about George W. Fleming appears in HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY, OHIO, edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich. The article tells us that Mr. Fleming was born in Groton Township, Erie County, Ohio, in 1838, to pioneer residents, John and Nancy Paxton Fleming. Nancy Paxton Fleming lived to the age of 103 years.

George W. Fleming served as a Sergeant in Co. G of the 101st Ohio Volunteer Infantry.He enlisted on August 12, 1862, under Colonel Stem, and was discharged in 1863 due to disability. George W. Fleming married Mereb Kershner in 1875. They had a large family, with five children living at the time of the writing of the Erie County History in 1889.  On February 29, 1904, Mr. George W. Fleming died at the age of 67. He was buried in Deyo Cemetery.

Hiram Walling

Hiram Walling died on February 22, 1848, at the age of 23 years, 1 month, and 5 days. He is buried in Deyo Cemetery in Groton Township of Erie County. A U.S. flag decorates his grave.

Hiram remains a mystery person, as to date I have not find him listed in any census records, or books of family history. His tombstone is amazingly easy to read, even after so many years have passed since his death.

Lemuel Hunt

Lemuel Hunt was born on February 13, 1802 in Vermont, and died at Parkertown, Ohio on September 19, 1897 at the age of 95. J. E. Bragg paid a tribute to Lemuel Hunt in the September 24, 1897 issue of the Sandusky Register. Mr Bragg wrote about Lemuel Hunt: "He was a firm believer in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man...His memory was unimpaired up to the time of his death, and his reminiscences of early frontier life would thrill the hearts of younger generations. Uncle Lemuel saw Fulton's first steamboat, the Clermont, ascend the Hudson River. All the presidents of the United States have lived within his time except George Washington. He has voted in twenty presidential elections."

Mrs. Hunt died 34 years before her husband. The Hunts were the parents of eight children. Lemuel Hunt, known by most as "Uncle Lemuel," was buried in Deyo Cemetery in Groton Township. J.E. Bragg concluded his tribute to Lemuel Hunt with, "In the decease of Lemuel Hunt we lose a good man and Groton Township loses her oldest inhabitant. Erie County loses one of her oldest pioneers, and the state of Ohio one of her oldest citizens. May our loss be his gain."

Emma Teut

Emma Teut, daughter of J. K. Teut is buried in Deyo Cemetery in Groton Township of Erie County. Emma's name is found in the 1880 Erie County Census in Groton Township with her family, whose surname is spelled Tite in that year's census. Later the family surname would be spelled Tight. Family members listed in 1880 are:

John Tite, age 50, born in Mecklenburg
Carie, age 44, born in Mecklenburg

Emma, age 16, born in Ohio
Lewis, age 14, born in Ohio
Sophi, age 12, born in Ohio
John, age 10, born in Ohio
Adam, age 8, born in Ohio
Frederick, age 6, born in Ohio

Emma died on November 15, 1881, while still in her teens. Her grave marker features a hand with a finger pointing upward to heaven.

Sadly, Emma's brother Adam, and his son Arthur, were both victims of the Cleveland Clinic Fire of 1929. Emma's nephew Alvin Tight, another son of Adam, became a successful physician in Sandusky, Ohio.

Children of Thomas and L. Fleming

Lambs adorn the tombstones for the infant children of Thomas and L. Fleming at Deyo Cemetery. The inscriptions read:

Almiry
Daughter of Thos. & L. Fleming
Died Nov. 11, 1855
Aged 7 mos., 2 d.

Almer
Son of Thos. & L. Fleming
Died Aug. 8, 1855
Aged 5 months

Margary R. Crippen

In Groton Township's Deyo Cemetery is the tombstone of Margary Crippen. The inscription reads:

Margary R.
daughter of E.S.
& Sarahann Crippen
Died Sept. 14, 1847
Aged 1 year 8 mos.
& 7 days

A pedigree chart found at Rootsweb indicates that Margary was the daughter of Elisha S. Crippen and Sarah Ann Lemon. Margary was the great granddaughter of Seth Harrington, a pioneer settler of Groton Township. The book HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY, OHIO, edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich, reports that in the early days of Groton Township, Seth Harrington and George Sprague made coffins out of oak trees.

To learn more about the Harrington family, see the description of the Captain Jonathan Harrington collection at the R. B. Hayes Presidential Center's website.

Deyo Cemetery

Deyo Cemetery is located in Groton Township, in the southern portion of Erie County, on Portland Road, between State Route 269 and Southwest Road. The soil at Deyo Cemetery is very sandy, and many of the tombstones are quite old. A shady woods borders the northern edge of Deyo Cemetery.

Several tombstone inscriptions for Deyo Cemetery are found at the website FindaGrave.




The book COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF THE COUNTIES OF SANDUSKY AND OTTAWA, OHIO, available on the database Heritage Quest, contains a biographical sketch of Hiram Deyo. Hiram's parents were Dr. John Palmer Deyo and Sarah Foster Deyo, whose tombstone is pictured to the right. Dr. John Palmer Deyo was born in Ulster County, New York in 1804. In 1833, he came to Ohio on horseback. Dr. Deyo settled four and one-half miles north of Bellevue, and he was a pioneer physician in that region. After his father's death, Dr. Deyo gave up medicine, and took over his father's farm. John Palmer Deyo married Sarah Foster in 1836. Dr. Palmer died in 1898, and his wife Sarah died in 1887.



Young Joshua was the son of J. Steward. He died on January 12, 1854, at the age of three years and twelve days. While some of the older tombstones at Deyo Cemetery have inscriptions that are illegible, Joshua Steward's inscription is easily read.A star adorns the top of Joshua's tombstone.