Egypt Valley Cemeteries

Circle Cemetery (Old Egypt Cemetery)

About 1/2 mile from Salem Cemetery sits the original burial site for the town of Egypt, which was established in the winter of 1883.
The cemetery goes by the name of Circle. The town has been gone for many years, though the stones actually date back to the 1700's.
This place has suffered a lot of vandalism through the years, but the Kirkwood Township trustees do keep it in good shape now.
It's legend is that a man drove his truck into it after falling asleep and lost his arm. So the severed arm crawls around at night and taps on tombstones.
Also this place is guarded by the "Hell Hounds."

We visited the other day and took these pictures.

A lot of the headstones have been knocked over or broken off. This is so disrespectful.

Some stones have just been embedded into the ground.

This pic may actually show an orb in the background. It's definitely an anomaly.

It's a quiet, peaceful place and beautiful in the
summer.
Notice the cross layout.

Hope Cemetery

Along old Rt. 40 sits the small village of Hendrysburg. This little town also sits in Egypt Valley.
Being along Zane's Trace gives this location a rich history.
Drovers' Trail, an old cattlemens' trail where livestock was herded to barges on the Ohio River, started here.
Confederate Gen. John Morgan also spent some time here with his Raiders in his trek across SE Ohio in the 1860's. People who live in Hendrysburg still talk about the rumours of buried Confederate money and gold.

Our historian, Donna, found this information recently...............
"Yes there were two small cems moved to Hope because of strip mining. Cowgill cem which was originally in North east section 31 of Kirkwood Twp, which puts that back behind the gas station way upon the hill.This would be off of Rt. 800 south. It was moved there in 1978. In Hope cem the Cowgill cem is towards the middle of the Cem next to the other Cem that was moved there, which was the Van Meter cem that was located in Warren twp section 30, also moved to Hope in 1978. Both cems were very small which are believed to be just family plots. The VanMeter has just two plots."

The cemetery is 1800's and well maintained on a grassy hill just outside of town. There are plenty of tall trees and shrubs. Very peaceful.
Brenda and I went during the afternoon recently to test some new equipment. Temperature 52, cloudy and damp.

This is a picture of me just walking and it looks as if I am being accompanied by a mist. I experienced some chills on and off but blamed it on the weather. It's always nice to stroll with a companion.

Another pic from my walk. On the large stone to my right, there is a white mist rising from the top. Of course we never saw anything until the
pictures were reviewed.

These were taken on a more recent visit.

We have several shots of this orb that seemed to follow Lori around all over the cemetery.

This looked like a little boy climbing a tree. But there were no
children around to be found. Awesome.

This photo we debated whether to include here or not. This is an enlarged right side view from another random shot. We call it the giant mushroom. It looks like a rock formation
No one saw it when the shot was taken. When it turned up on the camera, the next day the investigators went back and there is nothing there. We have no explanation for this one at all.
If anyone has any thoughts on this object, please let us know.

This picture, taken by one of our investigators, is of her family plot. Lots of relatives around that night.

For some reason, every picture we take around that marker has an orb in it.

Pioneer Cemetery

This small graveyard sits in Morristown ,Ohio. Although no longer active, it is the final resting place to the founders of Morristown and the veterans of
the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.
Particularly Duncan Morrison, also the first justice of the peace, whom the town is named after. He was a Sgt. Major at Valley Forge. In 1807 he also owned and operated the Blackhorse Inn, which still is open for private parties. It was an important stagecoach stop as it sat on Zane's Trace. And according to legend also a stop on the Underground Railroad.

Duncan Morrison's marker.

Some of our team, hard at work.

Some graveyard mists.

Sewellsville Church

The Methodist Episcopal church and cemetery is still active. It's quite large and well- maintained by the trustees. Some markers are very old. We saw gravestones from the Revolutionary, Civil, and War of 1812. There is even one from the Mexican War. It's a nice place to walk through.