Whitacre Farm Cemetery, Warren County, Ohio

The Whitacre Farm cemetery probably was a private, family burying ground from the mid 1800s, containing tombstones dating from 1849 to 1875. The locations was on the 157 acre farm of Benjamin F. Whitacre on both the 1856 Wall Map and the 1867 Wall Map of Warren County. The 1875 Warren County Atlas shows the cemetery location was on the 117 acre farm of S. & C. Whitacre. The 1891 Atlas and the 1903 Atlas both have the location on a 135 acre farm of Chas. G. Whitacre. The 1932 Warren County Plat book shows the location on the 130 acre farm of C. G. Whitacre. None of these maps had anything on them to indicate that a cemetery was present at this site.

Little publicly available documentation has been found regarding the cemetery or who was buried there. The depression era W.P.A. Graves Registration Project documented the cemetery with a plat showing 2 rows of 4 graves but showed only one of the three Civil War soldiers buried there (Elijah Beeman). In 1956 and 1957 James E. Stubbs visited the cemetery and recorded the inscriptions of 12 tombstones visible at that time. The cemetery had not been included in any of the cemetery publications done by either the D.A.R. or the Warren County Genealogical Society although the Stubbs data was later added as an addendum to Warren County Cemetery Records, Volume 7.


1867 Wall Map	1932 Plat Map	WPA Plat Map	Aerial Map from Auditor Site	Road Map


ca, 1957 photo by James E. Stubbs	Laurie & Darren uncover Abigail Stubbs stone - Laurie's cousin		Darren uncovers Harvey Whitacre's stone	Darren checking cemetery layout

cleaning the Margaret J. Whitacre stone with a toothbrush		trying to read a worn footstone		Plat of cemetery created by Darren Waters to show relative location of the stones that they unearthed.

literally all of the bases, headstones and footstones in this photo were buried when Darren and Laurie Waters first visited this burial site.

Photographic Records. [Click on the thumbnail images for larger photos]
To contribute your photos to this collection email them to Arne H Trelvik

		Elijah Beeman Co. A 12th Ohio Inf. killed while serving in the Civil War - see service record - see Elijah Beeman Letters put on line by Darren Waters		by Darren Waters & Laurie Taber 15 Apr 2006
			Harriet Mount wife of A. Mount died July 11, 1875 aged 33 years & 10 months	by Darren Waters & Laurie Taber 23 Apr 2006
		John William Platt son of Thomas & Lurinda/Lucinda Platt died Mar. 5, 1857? [broken through date] aged 2 years 1 month 13 days on 27 Apr 2006, Judy Davison writes, "Abigail Whitacre Stubbs (wife of Samuel) was one of only three known children of Benjamin Whitacre. I am descended from her brother Jonas and his wife Nancy Baldwin, daughter of Hiram - and sister of Lurinda Baldwin Platt (spelled Lewranda in court documents I recently found in Dearborn Co IN, which is where Hiram Baldwin's widow went, with several of the children, after Hiram's death ca 1836 or shortly before. One more of these Baldwin sisters was Rebecca, the wife of George Whitacre who was, I believe, a son of Enoch. I have done a lot of research on the descendants of Hiram and Mary Louisa (Lewis) Baldwin, and those of Jonas and Nancy (Baldwin) Whitacre. Would be happy to hear from other descendants."		by Darren Waters & Laurie Taber 23 Apr 2006
top bottom	combined	footstone G. W. S.	George W. Sellers died May 12, 1864 aged 36 years 7 months & 15 days [died while serving in the Civil War - see service record] Close-ups of inscriptions #1 & #2	by Darren Waters & Laurie Taber 15 Apr 2006 & 23 Apr 2006
		Abigail Stubbs died Oct. 15, 1858 aged 59 years 3 months & 23 days		by Darren Waters & Laurie Taber 23 Apr 2006
			Benjamin Stubbs died 13? July 1849 [stone broken through date] aged 23 years 11 months 10 days B. R. S. on footstone	by Darren Waters & Laurie Taber 23 Apr 2006
		Emeline Whitacre dau. of B. & R. A. Whitacre died Dec. 29, 1853 aged 9 months 4 days		by Darren Waters & Laurie Taber 15 Apr 2006
			Emey Jane Whitacre daughter of Geo. J. & Setha J. Whitacre died Apr. 27, 1859 aged 4 years 11 months & 13 days E. J. W. on footstone	by Darren Waters & Laurie Taber 15 Apr 2006 & 23 Apr 2006
			Granville M. Whitacre son of R. T.& K. A. Whitacre died June 27, 1860 aged 4 months & 6 days G. M. W. on footstone	by Darren Waters & Laurie Taber 15 Apr 2006 & 23 Apr 2006
		Harvey Whitacre died Jan. 8, 1862 aged 18 years 6 months & 22 days [died while serving in the Civil War - see service record]		by Darren Waters & Laurie Taber 15 Apr 2006
		John F. Whitacre son of John J. & Delilah A. Whitacre died Sept. 18, 1859 aged 11 years 11 months & 4 days		by Darren Waters & Laurie Taber 15 Apr 2006
			Josiah F. Whitacre son of R. T. & K. A. Whitacre died MAr. 11, 1859 aged 7 months & 15 days J. F. W. on footstone	by Darren Waters & Laurie Taber 23 Apr 2006
		Littleton Whitacre son of G. J. & C. A. Whitacre died Sept. 2, 1851 aged 1 years 6 months 26 days		by Darren Waters & Laurie Taber 23 Apr 2006
			Lydia Whitacre [most of given name missing from broken stone] daughter of Geo. J. & Setha J. Whitacre died Mar. 9, 1859 aged 18 years 1 month & 15 days L. W. on footstone	by Darren Waters & Laurie Taber 23 Apr 2006
		Margaret J. Whitacre dau. of B. J. & Alice Whitacre died Sept. 22, 1861 aged 3 years 6 months & 11 days		by Darren Waters & Laurie Taber 23 Apr 2006
			Martha Whitacre daughter of G. J. & S. A. Whitacre died ___ 1859 [stone broken through date] aged 1 month 28 days M. W. on footstone	by Darren Waters & Laurie Taber 15 Apr 2006 & 23 Apr 2006
		M. E. W. footstone found leaning against the side of the nearby barn [probably for Mary E. Whitacre* listed in the 1956 reading as born 1844 and died 1851]*		by Darren Waters & Laurie Taber 23 Apr 2006
			Smith H. Whitacre son of B. J. & A. Whitacre died March 8, 1864 aged 3 years 1 month & 19 days	by Darren Waters & Laurie Taber 23 & 30 Apr 2006
		Angeline L. Williams dau. of Wm. M. & M. A. Williams died Mar. 24, 1854 aged 5 years 1 month 10 days A. L. W. on footstone		by Darren Waters & Laurie Taber 23 Apr 2006
			Martha J. Williams dau. of Wm. M. & M. A. Williams died Aug. 15, 1851 aged 4 years 9 months & 24 days M. J. W. on footstone	by Darren Waters & Laurie Taber 15 Apr 2006 & 23 Apr 2006

Location:	Located on private property on a bluff overlooking Todds fork near the dead-end of Achterman Road (Twp Rd 169) north of Gheils-Carroll Road (Twp Rd 168) Cemetery #12290 in "Ohio Cemeteries 1803-2003" by the Ohio Genealogical Society Coordinates: approximately 39° 20' 06"N, 84° 06' 21"W Military Survey #1496 on early maps but listed as survey #1404 on current auditor records.
Links:	Websites by Laurie and Darren Waters: Old Whitacre Farm Cemetery; Whitacre Farm Cemetery; Elijah Beeman USGS GNIS - Not included in the Geographical Naming Information System TopoZone map at coordinates 39° 20' 06"N, 84° 06' 21"W Warren County Auditor Property Summary for Property Account #4815521 [Parcel ID 18351000010] Virginia Military District Survey #1494 from Warner's 1867 Wall Map of Warren County, Ohio Aerial Map from Windows.Live Local Deed from Robert Whitacre & Patience his wife to Benjamin Whitacre - 10 May 1811
Transcriptions:	D.A.R. Turtlecreek Chapter & Warren County Historical Society (available at the Historical Society Library) Not included in any of the Early Vital Records Volumes Warren County Genealogical Society Warren County Cemetery Records Volume 7 page 504 [also see on-line Name Index]
Variant Names:	none known of
Comments:	11 Sep 2009 email from Judy Davison: "I found the obituary of my 2nd great-grandfather Jonas Whitacre, in 1871 Warren County Ohio Obituaries, page 22. This sentence in the obit: "He was buried Saturday afternoon, May 13th, in Whitacre's burying-ground" makes me think he is in Whitacre Farm Cemetery, although he is not listed there yet on your website. Jonas was the son of Benjamin, on whose land this cemetery was located. Jonas' sister Abigail Stubbs is buried there, and I am wondering if this information is sufficient to have him added to the list of burials there on your website."