Upper Paw Paw Cemetery
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Upper Paw Paw Cemetery

Also known as Liberty Township Christian Cemetery , Walters Church Cemetery

Germantown, Washington County, Ohio, USA

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  • Get directions Smithberger Drive (Township Road 355)
    Germantown, Ohio 45745 United States
    Coordinates: 39.59219, -81.29753
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According to William's HISTORY OF WASHINGTON CO. OHIO, it was the second church organized in Elk township and dates from the vicinity of 1840. It was organized by Nathan Miller, Daniel Hendershot, Levi Woods, Daniel Michael, Daniel McPeek, John Miller, Hammond Miller, John Walters and their wives. About 1850 Daniel Michael gave some land and a building was constructed for the church by John Walters and John Powell. On two different occasions, the church and congregation moved to Dalzell in Washington Co. and the bell from Walters Christian Church wich was spposed to have a particularly lovely sound is now in the church at Dalzell. In 1848 or 1849 the first burial there was a little child of Daniel McPeek.



The cemetery is located on the east side of Smithberger Drive (Township Road 355) near the boundary between Elk Township in Noble County and Liberty Township in Washington Township.



The cemetery is located in Jackson Township, Noble County, Ohio, and is # 12471 (Walters Christian Church Cemetery / Upper Pawpaw) in "Ohio Cemeteries 1803-2003", compiled by the Ohio Genealogical Society.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) feature ID for the cemetery is 1963946 (Liberty Township Christian Cemetery).

The cemetery is listed as cemetery 13 (Walters Cemetery / Upper Paw Paw Cemetery) in Noble County, Ohio Cemetery Inscriptions Book IX Elk Township, published by Noble County Chapter – OGS, Caldwell, Ohio, 1995.





According to William's HISTORY OF WASHINGTON CO. OHIO, it was the second church organized in Elk township and dates from the vicinity of 1840. It was organized by Nathan Miller, Daniel Hendershot, Levi Woods, Daniel Michael, Daniel McPeek, John Miller, Hammond Miller, John Walters and their wives. About 1850 Daniel Michael gave some land and a building was constructed for the church by John Walters and John Powell. On two different occasions, the church and congregation moved to Dalzell in Washington Co. and the bell from Walters Christian Church wich was spposed to have a particularly lovely sound is now in the church at Dalzell. In 1848 or 1849 the first burial there was a little child of Daniel McPeek.



The cemetery is located on the east side of Smithberger Drive (Township Road 355) near the boundary between Elk Township in Noble County and Liberty Township in Washington Township.



The cemetery is located in Jackson Township, Noble County, Ohio, and is # 12471 (Walters Christian Church Cemetery / Upper Pawpaw) in "Ohio Cemeteries 1803-2003", compiled by the Ohio Genealogical Society.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) feature ID for the cemetery is 1963946 (Liberty Township Christian Cemetery).

The cemetery is listed as cemetery 13 (Walters Cemetery / Upper Paw Paw Cemetery) in Noble County, Ohio Cemetery Inscriptions Book IX Elk Township, published by Noble County Chapter – OGS, Caldwell, Ohio, 1995.





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