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id	first	middle	last	dob	dod	cod
140	Augusta	Loisa Maria	Mekat	6/12/1872	9/6/1872

veteran	exhumed	purchaser	cemetery
	FALSE		Adams Street

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	R22 G2 in SW unplotted corner

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Berea lists her name as Augusta Louisa Mary Niekard, her date of burial as 16 September 1872, her age at death as 3 months, 4 days (“List of burials and names”). However, a transcription of a stone for her was recorded in 1904 and 1934, in 1904 reading “ Augusta Loisa Maria Mekat, b. June 12, 1872, d. Sept. 6, 1873" and in 1934 correct the date of death to 1872. No notice of her death was made in the Grindstone Advertiser. In 1934, her stone was located between the graves of L. F. Krumrei and Henrietta Stelter. The stone at that location in 2007 is a small sandstone tablet, with the inscription worn away.

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E.S. Loomis and D.T. Gould, “Inscriptions from the Old Berea Cemetery,” 1904, Berea Historical Society “Cuyahoga Cemetery Inscriptions,” Vol. I, complied by the Western Reserve Historical Society, 1934