George W. & Susanna Travis - Ragersville, OH
Posted by: silverquill
N 40° 27.230 W 081° 37.788
17T E 446597 N 4478320
This zinc headstone for George W. & Susanna Travis is located in the First German Reformed Church Cemetery.
Waymark Code: WMBX3X
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 06/29/2011
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This is a large double-size marker with two rounded tablets for the name plates with a raised initial T above and between them. The reverse plates have a raised figure of a cross with rose circlet and the other with the raised figure of an ear of corn.
The entire zinc structure is mounted on a concrete stand.
SUSANNA
WIFE OF
G.W. TRAVIS,
DIED
APRIL 8, 1889,
AGED
69 YEARS,
6 MONTHS, 23 DAYS.
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GEORGE W.
TRAVIS,
DIED
JULY 3, 1900.
AGED
82 YEARS,
6 MONTHS, 23 DAYS.
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The First German Reformed Church, with its cemetery, was organized in 1837 composed largely of immigrants from Switzerland who settled in this rich farm country near what is now Sugarcreek, Ohio, a center of Amish settlements.
The church building was erected in 1866, and the cemetery has been nicely maintained. There are perhaps as many as 700-800 interments here. There is a war memorial commemorating veterans from the Civil War, so of whom are buried here, up through World War II.