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Two Leading Quakers Crossed a Creek to Bury a Poor Man with Grace
In the spring of 1900, two of Clinton County's most prominent men — a Civil War general turned judge and the region's oldest Quaker minister — crossed Lytle Creek to bury a man who had died with nothing. Why they went, and two lives from the Obscure Lot.
The Ground Beneath the County Farm
There is an obscure lot on the southeast edge of Wilmington, Ohio that most people drive past without a second look. At least 250 people are buried there — in a cemetery the county has never officially recognized. That investigation is what finally pushed me to go professional.
Site Visit: Vernon Township and the Hunt for a Vanished Date
Anne Suttles’s broken marker preserves August 8, but not the death year. The 1850 census names Suttles children in several households as of June 1. It cannot establish when or why they moved. An 1851 marriage-license entry adds context; Anne’s death year remains unproved.
The Search for My Father (Pt 1): The Ground I Grew Up On
My childhood was rooted in a small southern Ohio farm, a world that felt simple on the surface but held decades of unspoken history beneath its soil. In this first part of the Six Feet Deep series “The Search for My Father,” I look back at the quiet absence of a father figure, the family rumors that deepened the mystery, and the phone call years later that finally forced me to uncover the truth buried deep beneath my life.