Isaac J. Sperry

Isaac J. Sperry's tombstone is found in Row 36 of the Strong's Ridge Cemetery in Lyme Township of Huron County, Ohio. He died on January 3, 1835, in his 33rd year of age.

Leonard Hope

Leonard Hope was born in 1856, and died in 1871. He is buried in Strong's Ridge Cemetery, in Huron County, Ohio.
The inscription "Alive in Christ" is found below his name on his grave marker.

So far, the names of the parents of Leonard Hope have not been found. Leonard Hope is listed in the Erie County, Ohio 1870 Census, as a fourteen year old, living with the family of Worthington and Betsy Nims in Groton Township, Erie County, Ohio.

Mr. and Mrs. Lyman E. Strong

A biographical sketch of Henry Clay Strong in HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE provides information about Henry's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lyman E. Strong. Lyman Elderkin Strong was born to Major Joseph and Lucy Elderkin Strong on June 13, 1802. Major Strong was one of the earliest settlers in Lyme Township of Huron County. Lyman E. Strong was a merchant and also had a farm, first in Lyme Township and later in Plymouth, Ohio in Richland County. Lyman D. Strong married Calista Lucinda Nims in 1831.

Lyman Elderkin Strong died on October 8, 1889, and Calista Nims Strong died on April 14, 1891. A tribute to Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Strong is found in the book HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE:

"They lived lives of usefulness and honor and their names merit an enduring place on the roll of those who contributed their quota to the social and material development and progress of the historic old Western Reserve."

The business papers of Lyman Elderkin Strong are held by the Library of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center. Lyman E. and Calista Strong are buried in the Strong's Ridge Cemetery in Huron County, Ohio along with their son Ozias Strong, who died in 1864. A cousin of Lyman Elderkin Strong, also named Lyman Strong, was a marble dealer in Cleveland, Ohio.

Wordless Wednesday: Strong's Ridge Cemetery

Diana V. Kinney

The tombstone of Diana Violitte Kinney is found at the Strong's Ridge Cemetery in Huron County, Ohio. Diana was the daughter of John C. and Amy Kinney. It appears that Diana died on July 28, but the year is not legible.

Records from Huron County Probate Court indicate that John C. Kinney married Amy Rowley on April 18, 1826. This biographical information about John C. Kinney was found in an online edition of the book COUNTIES OF LAGRANGE AND NOBLE, INDIANA, available at the Internet Archive:


John C. Kinney was a machinist, and when a young man worked at his trade in New York, where he married Miss Amy Rowley, and soon afterward moved to Burlington, Vt. After some years, he removed to Huron County, Ohio, and in 1832 started on horseback through Indiana. He returned to Ohio the same year, and in 1833 moved his family to Lima, and ever afterward made La Grange County his home. For some years he carried the mail on horseback from Toledo through to Fort Defiance, White Pigeon and other places, and, while engaged at this, died.

Diana V. Kinney probably died as a youngster, since the Kinney family lived in Ohio for only a short time.