Old Cuddleback
To the west of Vermilion, Ohio is Orchard Beach. It has a cemetery on Rte. 6/ Rte 2/ Lake Road and Risdon. There is no fence, no name. It is called Orchard Beach, or Old Cuddleback Cemetery. The grass is mowed. 
There are less than an hundred stones. Some are broken. Some are illegible. Some only the first name is clear, as Elizabeth above. The oldest visible burial date is 1824, someone was buried in 1816 [someone has made a careful research of these, not me]. The last is from 1890. David Johnson was born in 1790 and died in 1890, his wife in 1833. There are few stones after the 1850s. Most are thin upright slabs made from soft stone. The graveyard was not much more than utilitarian burying ground.
Some people were born nearby, others from the east (Connecticut and New York). Some people were Cuddlebacks, and their relatives, hence Old Cuddleback Cemetery. There is a Charles Hurlbut, i wonder if he is a relative of Hinman B. Hurlbut. There is a state marker for Lester Pelton, he is buried in a different cemetery.
There are few with ornament. This one for Lucias Wilson has four stars, and a stylized weeping willow. In the antebellum XIXth century this was a very popular sign for mourning. There are a few others in this cemetery.
There are less than an hundred stones. Some are broken. Some are illegible. Some only the first name is clear, as Elizabeth above. The oldest visible burial date is 1824, someone was buried in 1816 [someone has made a careful research of these, not me]. The last is from 1890. David Johnson was born in 1790 and died in 1890, his wife in 1833. There are few stones after the 1850s. Most are thin upright slabs made from soft stone. The graveyard was not much more than utilitarian burying ground.
Some people were born nearby, others from the east (Connecticut and New York). Some people were Cuddlebacks, and their relatives, hence Old Cuddleback Cemetery. There is a Charles Hurlbut, i wonder if he is a relative of Hinman B. Hurlbut. There is a state marker for Lester Pelton, he is buried in a different cemetery.
There are few with ornament. This one for Lucias Wilson has four stars, and a stylized weeping willow. In the antebellum XIXth century this was a very popular sign for mourning. There are a few others in this cemetery.
My 3rd Great grandpa was buried there in 1853 he was Casper Ernst a shipbuilder from Hessen Germany...I remember hearing or reading somewhere that his grave and much of the cemetery washed away into Lake Erie. I've never confirmed this.
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