Cemetery Name

Whitacre Farm

Township

Status

First Known Burial

General Condition

Tombstone Condition

OGS Cemetery #

Location:

Coordinates:

STR/ VMD

Property Account:

Parcel ID:

Map:

• Websites by Laurie and Darren Waters:  Old Whitacre Farm Cemetery; Whitacre Farm Cemetery; Elijah Beeman
• USGS GNIS - Not included in the Geographical Naming Information System
• TopoZone map at coordinates 39° 20' 06"N, 84° 06' 21"W
• Warren County Auditor Property Summary for Property Account #4815521 [Parcel ID 18351000010]
• Virginia Military District Survey #1494 from Warner's 1867 Wall Map of Warren County, Ohio
• Aerial Map from Windows.Live Local
  Deed from Robert Whitacre & Patience his wife to Benjamin Whitacre - 10 May 1811

Cemetery History

The Whitacre Farm cemetery probably was a private, family burying ground from the mid 1800s, containing tombstones dating from 1849 to 1875. The locations was on the 157 acre farm of Benjamin F. Whitacre on both the 1856 Wall Map and the 1867 Wall Map of Warren County. The 1875 Warren County Atlas shows the cemetery location was on the 117 acre farm of S. & C. Whitacre. The 1891 Atlas and the 1903 Atlas both have the location on a 135 acre farm of Chas. G. Whitacre. The 1932 Warren County Plat book shows the location on the 130 acre farm of C. G. Whitacre. None of these maps had anything on them to indicate that a cemetery was present at this site.

Little publicly available documentation has been found regarding the cemetery or who was buried there. The depression era W.P.A. Graves Registration Project documented the cemetery with a plat showing 2 rows of 4 graves but showed only one of the three Civil War soldiers buried there (Elijah Beeman). In 1956 and 1957 James E. Stubbs visited the cemetery and recorded the inscriptions of 12 tombstones visible at that time. The cemetery had not been included in any of the cemetery publications done by either the D.A.R. or the Warren County Genealogical Society although the Stubbs data was later added as an addendum to Warren County Cemetery Records, Volume 7. 

Cemetery Transcriptions

• D.A.R. Turtlecreek Chapter & Warren County Historical Society (available at the Historical Society Library)
  • Not included in any of the Early Vital Records Volumes
• Warren County Genealogical Society
  • Warren County Cemetery Records Volume 7 page 504 [also see on-line Name Index]
    Laurie Muise and Darren Waters photographed uncovered and photographed all gravestones in the cemetery in 2006.

Gravestone Images

Gravestone photos for the Warren County, Ohio Virtual Cemetery Project are being posted to the Warren County OHGenWeb Project
To view images ===> Whitacre Farm Cemetery
To submit images ==> email to Arne H. Trelvik at atrelvik@gmail.com [please send high resolution digital images if available]