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Dayton, Ohio 45440 United States Near By Caches
Hidden On: 06 Jan 2008
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Big grassy field between Beavertown Cemetery and Woodman Drive. Kids often play in the field. Sometimes people walk through the area. Golfers have even been seen out whacking balls on the site.
I discovered this history of this site quite by accident and had driven past it numerous times as I live VERY close to it. I was out looking for a place to do some Metal Detecting (greatest hobby ever) and decided to investigate it due to it’s proximity to the very, very old Beavertown Cemetery. I soon discovered that it was an old farm site due to some physical landmarks I found and some of my Detecting finds. Notable finds recovered at the site are as follows: (1) 1810 Large Cent (my oldest find to date) (1) 1848 Large Cent (1) 1842 Canadian Bank Token (1) 1865 Indian Head Cent (badly corroded) (1) 1882 Indian Head Cent (1) 1934 Walking Liberty Half Dollar (1) Cull Standing Liberty Quarter (Cull means the date was worn off or is unreadable) (1) 1941 Washington Quarter (1) 1917 Mercury Dime (1) 1946 Roosevelt Dime (1) 1951-S Roosevelt Dime (1) 1962 Roosevelt Dime (1) Merchant Token, Aluminum, HorseShoe Shaped, Obverse: "LOUHOFF 3607 HARRISON AVE." Reverse: "GOOD FOR 5 Cents IN TRADE" (1) Merchant Token, Aluminum, Trianglular Shaped, Obverse: "THE ANNEX", Reverse: "GOOD FOR 5 Cents AT THE BAR" (1) Badly worn copper coin with a punched or drilled hole. There is an outline of a figure, but I have not been able to identify the type of coin it is. (1) copper Oriental Coin with a square hole at center (1) 1917 WWI Patriotic Watch Fob, Obverse: "Our Country's Defenders" w/ Eagel and Shield bearing 13 stars, Reverse: once read "1917 - The United States in the Great War" but was planed of and inscribed with "Summer Dayton Ohio" and other stuff I can't make out A multitude of Wheat Cents (8) rectangular copper or brass Picker's Checks stamped on the Obverse: “BERRY CHECK, ONE GAL.”, Reverse: “H. H. EWRY” and "R. RICE, MAKER, DAYTON, O." on the other. Picker's Checks were issued to farm workers, to be exchanged for cash payment at the end of the day or week. H. H. Ewry is identified as Henry H. Ewry and is buried at Beavertown Cemetery. Plus, various other metallic items discarded or lost through 150 years of human habitation: square nails, horse/mule shoes, jar lids, tools, farm machine parts, broken toys, etc. etc. If you would like, you can take a little walk and view some of the remaining physical landmarks of the site using the following coordinate locations. N 39 41.797 W 084 07.587 Here you would be standing in the Ewry home, I believe. There is still some of the front walk and an old well or cistern hole. When the grass is cut just right, you can still see much of the outline of the house if you stand further back in the field. N 39 41.800 W 084 07.600 Here you are standing at the start of what is a gravel drive or road. You can see that it goes back and curves towards the nearest back corner of Beaverton Cemetery and, think followed the back side of the Cemetery and then into the opposite back corner. Walk down the old sidewalk next to the home site along the hillside, if you wish or just head towards the lonely stump further back in the direction of the cemetery. N 39 41.830 W 084 07.586 Here is an old brick-lined filled in well. The rocks piled on top are a new addition, for whatever reason. See the good-sized stump? That was a nice big old Crabapple tree, struck by lightning at least a year ago and finally cut down. By the stump and near the end of the sidewalk is possible evidence of an old barn, but I am not possitive what it is. N 39 41.841 W 084 07.629 You should now be right in the center of the Lesser Stone Henge of Kettering. This white stone ring, I believe, is the remnants of a grain silo. Here is some history of the Ewry family that I could find. Most is related to William Ewry, who was a prominent resident of the area. There is only mention of the purchase of the farm site and general location. There is nothing so far, that I have been able to find concerning Henry H. Ewry owning or running the farm and only mention of him being the son to Bazil and Elizabeth Ewry. Many of the Ewry family are buried at Beavertown Cemetery, also know as Beavertown-Ewery Cemetery. WILLIAM EWRY, carriage and wagon manufacturer and black-smith, Beavertown, Van Buren Twp., Montgomery Co., Ohio. He was born in Van Buren township, Montgomery county, Ohio, July 31, 1839. He is a son of Bazil and Magdalene (Swigart) Ewry, both of whom were natives of Van Buren township. They were the parents of two children, William and David. Bazil Ewry was a farmer by occupation, and one of the best in the entire county. On November 8, 1838, he married Magdalene Swigart, by whom he had two children, William and David. Both he and his wife, the latter of whom died March 18, 1843, were members of the German Reformed church, in which he served most of his lifetime as an elder and a deacon. He was a popular and prominent man in the community, and led an honorable and useful life. For his second wife he married Elizabeth Swigart, by whom he had a total of ten children, seven sons and one daughter, as follows: John G., Benjamin F., Albert R., Oliver P., Henry H., Wilson and Mary E., and two children, named Charles O. and Isaac W., who died in infancy. Bazil Ewry's father, John Ewry, was a native of Maryland and came to Ohio at a very early day, settling in Van Buren township, and buying land one mile east of the present site of Beavertown. During the construction of the first church he was one of the first to contribute, donating two acres of land, upon which is also located the cemetery (the church and it's location are unknown to me at this time). He reared a large family and lived to be very old. The maternal grandfather of William Ewry was Michael Swigart, a native of Maryland, who came to Ohio with eighty dollars in money and began the life of a farmer, in which he prospered greatly. Like many other pioneers, Mr. Swigart himself made the chairs and bedsteads with which he began housekeeping. His home was in Greene county, where he lived to the great age of ninety years. William Ewry was reared on the farm and received his rudimentary education in the common schools. He began driving a team when eleven years old. At the age of eighteen he began to learn the wagonmaker's trade, and has followed this occupation ever since, having made wagons and carriages almost innumerable for his neighbors and other residents of Montgomery county. His business has grown and prospered, until at the present time he employs six men. He manufactures fine carriages, phaetons, and all kinds of wagons, and sends out from his shops some very handsome work. In all these years Mr. Ewry has built up character and reputation as well as business, and is well known throughout the surrounding country as a thoroughly honorable, reliable workman. On November 17, 1868, Mr. Ewry married Miss Amelia Harper, by whom he had one daughter, Maud. Mrs. Ewry died September 6, 1880. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, but after her marriage and removal to Beavertown, there being no Methodist church there, she identified herself with the United Brethren church. In March, 1884, Mr. Ewry married Miss Katie Fitzpatrick, daughter of William and Martha Fitzpatrick, and to this second marriage there have been born three children: Mattie, Charles and Mary. Mr. Ewry had two brothers, David and John, in the late Civil war, who served from the first call of President Lincoln for three months' men until the close, and were in twenty-eight battles. Mr. Ewry was a member of Montgomery Lodge, No. 5, I. 0. 0. F., and in politics was a republican. He had a beautiful home adjoining his place of business in Beavertown, and was a resident of Van Buren township. Mr. Ewry's high standing as a citizen and his success in business are the best evidence of what may be accomplished in life through energy, industry and sound judgment. William Ewry met his death by a vicious horse. The animal kicked him three times, from the effects of which he died four days later, April 5, 1864. |
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21 May 2008 by
Web_ling
(Finds: 79 Score: 257.5)
(Hidden: 22 Score: 72.5)
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Found this with the Wednesday Cache Crew (plus Littlepod).
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