Downing Cemetery in Magnolia, Ohio is an interesting little place. It got my attention again.
Last fall, I visited to try to find a great grand uncle who was a Revolutionary War patriot and an early settler of Stark County, my home county. I found his stone in disarray.
I later found an early 1970's photo that showed what the stone used to look like. It was a lesson in why to keep looking. It also gave me a reason to want to go back. So, I did.
My kids and I made a trek back when we were running early to a family gathering.
This trek back found that his daughter Drusilla's stone is, indeed, intact.
I photographed the entire cemetery (it took less than 10 minutes) and loaded it up to Findagrave.com. There are several unreadable stones, but all but three of the 25 stones in an earlier transcription have been photographically documented now.
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