Mound Cemetery
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Mound Cemetery in Marietta, Ohio is home to the Great Mound or Conus, built by the Mound Builders,[1] and is reportedly home to the largest number of American Revolutionary War officers buried in one location.[2][3] The Great Mound was preserved by the original pioneers and city founders of the Ohio Company of Associates. Many of the founders were officers of the Revolutionary War who received land grants for military services. Officers of the American Revolutionary War buried in Mound Cemetery include General Rufus Putnam, General Benjamin Tupper, Commodore Abraham Whipple, Colonel William Stacy, and many others.
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— DAR, American Monthly, Vol. 16 (Jan-Jun 1900), 329.
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[edit] Great Mound or Conus
According to the Washington County Historical Society:
The origin and disappearance of the prehistoric Moundbuilders has long been shrouded in mystery. “Conus” is the burial place of chieftains. The mounds and earthworks were constructed between 800 B.C. and 700 A.D. These early inhabitants were the first farmers and artisans in the Ohio Valley and Marietta was the site of a Moundbuilders city.[4]
The conical Great Mound at Mound Cemetery is part of a mound complex known as the Marietta Earthworks, which includes the nearby Quadranaou and Capitolium platform mounds, the Sacra Via walled mounds (largely destroyed in 1843), and additional mounds.
The Great Mound or Conus is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as the Mound Cemetery Mound, site #73001549.
[edit] American Revolutionary War soldiers
The Washington County Historical Society compiled the following list of Revolutionary soldiers buried in Mound Cemetery:[4]
- Col. Robert Taylor, First Burial Here
- Gen. Joseph Buell
- Maj. Ezra Putnam
- Gen. Rufus Putnam
- Andrew McAllister
- Ephraim Foster
- Gershom Flagg
- John Holt
- Surgeon Jabez True
- Griffin Greene, Sr., Quartermaster
- Commodore Abraham Whipple
- Col. Ebenezer Sproat
- Col. William Stacy, Sr.
- Gen. Benjamin Tupper
- Maj. Anselm Tupper
- Maj. Joseph Lincoln
- Capt. Nathaniel Saltonstall
- Nathaniel Dodge
- Col. Enoch Shepherd
- Jeremiah Thomas
- Samuel Hildreth, Sr.
- Judge Dudley Woodbridge
- Sala Bosworth
- Levi Lankton
- Col. Ichabod Nye
- Ephraim Emerson
- Capt. Josiah Munro
- John Green
- James Hatch
- Capt. Stanton Prentiss
- Isaac Berry
- Capt. Joseph Rogers
- Matthew Kerr
- Capt. William Moulton, Jr.
- Nathan Evans
- Gen. Joseph Willcox
- Simeon Goodwin
[edit] References
[edit] Bibliography
- Cotton, Willia Dawson: Sketch of Mound Cemetery, Marietta, Ohio, Marietta Register Print, Marietta, Ohio (1900). This historical book is available online via the Google Books Library Project at Mound Cemetery, Cotton.
- Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR): American Monthly, Vol. 16, Jan-Jun 1900, R. R. Bowker Co., New York (1900) p. 329.
- Hawley, Owen: Mound Cemetery, Marietta, Ohio, Washington County Historical Society, Marietta, Ohio (1996).
- Johnson, Clifton: What to see in America, Macmillan Co., New York (1919) p. 224.
- Summers, Thomas J.: History of Marietta, The Leader Publishing Co., Marietta, Ohio (1903) pp. 301-09. This historical book is available online via the Google Books Library Project at History of Marietta, Summers.
