Sheafor
Plot
AKA Parcell Plot
Akan Township, Richland County,
Wisconsin
USA
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The Tombstone Tell - Republican Observer November 17, 1956
Neglected Graves of Pioneers
Along the highways, out in the woods over in a field
back from the road, are a number of cemeteries wherein are buried some
of the pioneers of Richland county. Some of these burying places you
never heard about and do not know.
Perhaps the one over on highway 14, a bit over a
mile west of the Boaz corner is one which most Richland county people
pass and do not know it there. No tombstones are to be seen yet one is
there and a little iron fence to enclose a grave is now hidden among
the bushes and weeds. A cedar tree can be noticed but you must drive
slow if you want to see the iron fence or the cedar tree. Leaning
against a butternut tree is the tombstone of a lad, who died away back
when. His name was Sheafor and his illness, so his obituary says, was
"water on the brain." The cemetery has as a name as all cemeteries do,
it is the Parcell cemetery, named after John Parcell, an early settler
of the town of Dayton. This cemetery, if you wish to know, is located a
mile and 3/10 northwest of the Boaz corner on highway 14. It is on a
bank on the left side of the road as you go northwest.
S.F.
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