These tombstone photos have been generously donated by Lisa DuBois, 12 June, 2003
This cemetery is located on the west side of Round Bottom Road and two-tenths of a mile north of Cincinnati and Batavia Road (route 32) in Newtown, Ohio. Information published by Hamilton County Chapter of Ohio Genelogical Society, makes note "...that this cemetery was a historic site long before our pioneers first arrived in the area which they named Mercersburg. The largest of Adena Indian Mounds to be found in the Little Miami Vally is Block F, which is circled by one row of graves. The approximate 12 acre cemetery was established by the Independant Order of Oddfellows, Lodge No. 152 in 1863. This data found in Hamilton Co., Ohio Burial Records, Vol. Two, Anderson Twp., 1800 - 1989.
The most recent update to this page was made on 15 Oct., 2008.

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Durham, E. Samuel, 1853 - 1944 Samuel was born Aug. 3, 1853, died July 30, 1944. Son of Aquilla Jr. & Sarah (Thomspon) Durham. This is my great grandfather.

Durham, Anna Wait, b. Nov. 10, 1865 [Brown Co., OH], d. July 25, 1951 [Cincinnati, OH] Anna [Lydia]was the daughter of Frances Asbury & Martha (Stymets) Wait. She is the wife of E. Samuel Durham, and my great grandmother.

Durham, Floyd E., b. Sept. 28, 1891, d. Nov. 6, 1929 Son of E. Samuel & Anna (Wait) Durham, and husband of Bertha Beckler.

Pence, Henretta (Hattie), July 2, 1883 [New Richmond, Ohio Twp., Clermont Co., OH], died Feb. 24, 1965 [Newtown] She is the dau. of E. Samuel & Henrietta (Laidley) Durham (E. Samuel's 1st. wife). Hattie is the wife of William Collis Pence.

Pence, William Collis, b. Oct. 31, 1885 [near Georgetown, KY], died 1968 [Newtown] Son of Frank & Ella (Davis) Pence and husband of Hattie (Durham) Pence.

Schwarz, Anthony Joseph, b. Mar. 11, 1897 [Cincinnati, OH], d. Oct. 4, 1931 [Cincinnati, OH]. Son of Peter & Mary (Imhoff) Schwarz. Anthony is the husband of Catherine Elizabeth Durham (she is a dau. of E. Samuel & Anna Durham and she's buried in Riverside Cemetery, Troy, Miami Co., OH with her second husband)

Durham, Aquilla, born May 13, 1779 [Harford Co., MD], died Sept. 30, 1870 [Newtown, OH]-Our Father- Son of Joshua & Sarah (Thompson) Durham. Husband of Harriet (Thompson) Durham. History of One Branch of the Durham Family since their First Settlement in America A. D. 1722 Published by S. Townsley & Son, Printers 1882, New Richmond, OH Author, E. Samuel Durham. p 8 "In the fall of 1795 Joshua Durham again started out for the Ohio country, or to what was then the "far west". On arriving at the Allegheny River they halted long enough to build a flat-boat and then embarked for the long and tedious journey, drifting with the current of the stream all the way to the mouth of the Little Miami, which they reached and turned into on the morning of May 13th, 1796, (this was the seventeenth birthday of Aquila Durham, the youngest child of Joshua, ...) " p. 10 "Aquilla,... lived through all the trials of the family and lived with his father until he had paid for the farm. About this time, he was offered a position in the Lewis and Cass expedition to the Pacific Ocean as a hunter, he being very fond of hunting and a good shot: but as he was about to be married he thought it best not to go. He was united in marriage with Harriet Thompson, daughter of Barnard Thompson, who was a soldier in the revolutionary war, and emigrated to Kentucky after the struggle for independance was over, and afterwards removed to the mouth of Straight Creek, in Brown County, Ohio about fifty miles above the mouth of the Little Miami. They sojourned here for nearly three years when the removed to the Little Miami Bottoms above Newtown."

Durham, Harriet, wife of Aquilla Durham, born April 18, 1785, died January 30, 1868 -To our mother- Daughter of Barnard & Hannah Thompson.

Durham, Alazanah, 1809 - 1903 -Mother- Alazanah (Durham) Burdsall, b. December 24, 1809 - d. February 24, 1903. Daughter of Aquilla and Harriett (Thompson) Durham Newtown, Ohio 175th Anniversary September 21, 22, 23, 24 1792-1967; p. 15 (photo: Alazanah Durham and Uriah Burdsall, both born in Newtown in 1809, were married here in 1830. They celebrated their 73rd wedding anniversary in Newtown home Uriah, a carpenter, built.")