INTERLUDE FOUR: THE WILDERSON-LEWIS CONNECTIONS

Six of our direct line ancestors are buried in this peaceful little cemetery on Bush-Selkirk Road in Newton Township, Trumbull County, Ohio. Gravestones are here for Charles and Christene Wilderson, our great, great, great grandparents. Their son, Henry Wilderson and his wife, Rachel  Barnhisel are also buried here. And so are John and Mary Lewis. John Lewis and Henry Wilderson set aside this land for their families and their neighbors to use to bury their loved ones. Out of the 40 or more gravesites here, 32 of them are our relatives! 

John and Henry's families lived on adjoining properties from about 1843 until the early 1900s. And here they all lie together in their graveyard. But, John and Henry were connected in another way, too, because John's son, David Lewis, married Henry's daughter, Mary Ann Wilderson, our great grandparents!