These tombstone photos have been generously donated by Robert Sizelove, Nov. 30, 2003
This cemetery is located just north east of Mt. Vernon Rd. (SR13) on Weaver Rd. (TR76) between Vanatta & St. Louisville, Ohio

For those that are perhaps seeing these transcriptions for the first time, the transcriptions may give on first glance, the appearance of a great many typos, so I feel obligated to explain that the abundance of y, m, and d represent abbreviations for year, month and day. Although you will find most engravers follow similar patterns, it seems there are several different abbreviations used to represent these three time terms including: y, yr, yrs, yr's & years; m. mo, mos, mo's, and months; d. da, das, da's, and days and on rare occasions, h, hr, hrs, hr's, and hours. I tend not to use commas except to seperate surname from given name, given name from date, except where found on actual inscription, same goes for the [.] (period). When you see the symbol [_] (underscore), I use it to represent missing or unreadable letters, or if a lot of letters are unreadable I may express it by several periods, such as Jos...h . Sometimes you will find raised letters such as ^"c" in surnames such as in M^cClain, or if the engraver added smaller letters that were left out and added later, when I encounter them, tend to express them, when possible, as found on the stone. Sometimes engravers will use the term Æ or æ, this is just a term that generally replaces the word "aged". One last comment, all actual text found engraved, will come first in bold text. All comments, observations, personal knowledge remarks added by submitter, concerning an individual, but not inscribed on stone, will then proceed in regular text. _{~R.M.Sizelove~}

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Robinson, died Oct. 16, 1842, aged 28y 11m 24d

Robinson, Sarah, died Oct. 1, 1842, In the 72nd year of her age

Robinson, Stephen, died May 6, 1840 AE, 72 ys 2ms

Unknown, [stone not readable]

Willits, In memory of Stephen, son of R.O. Willits, died…[stone damaged, remaining text not readable]

Unknown, In memory of Stephen R. son of__[stone damaged, most of text not readable]

Footstone, [stone not readable]

Willits, Richard O., born _, died Sept. 21, 1823

Dunlap, In memory of William, son of John & Margaret Dunlap, died April 23 AD, 1843, aged 6weeks & 3d

Patterson, In memory of Elizabeth, consort of Robert Patterson who departed this life Oct. 13th AD, 1838, aged 20y 9mo 13days closer view

Johnson, Elizabeth M., died Apr. 15, 1837, aged 4y; Johnson, Christian, died Aug. 4, 1843, aged 3m 22d

[unknown burial], [part of given name, --dnah, 1827]

[unknown burial], [not readable]

[unknown], [fragment]

[footstone], [after Johnston memorial]

Harris, Amelia E., dau of J. & Amelia Harris, died Aug. 20, 1849, aged 1yr 11mo & 7 days

Harris, James, son of James & Amelia Harris, died __, 1832, aged__[ very hard to read]

[unknown burial] , [stone fragment all that remains]

McConnell, Wilson S., died Dec. 13, 1850, aged __y, 7mo 8d

McConnell, Dorcas, wife of Samuel McConnell, died__

McConnell, Samuel, died Sept. 29, 1872 in the 65th year of his age

This concludes my readings of Porter Cemetery.