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individual record

id
first
middle
last
dob
dod
cod
144WillieMoe4/8/18629/1/1862

veteran
exhumed
purchaser
cemetery
FALSEAdams Street

lot
plot
R5 G2 on north face of George R. Whitney family stone
relations
F.A. (Father) H.A. (Mother)

comments
Berea lists his date of burial as 3 September 1862 (“List of burials and names”). Transcriptions of a tombstone for him were recorded in 1904 and 1934: "Moe, Willie, eld. Son of F.A. and H.A. Moe, b. Apr 8, 1862, d. Sept. 1, 1862". His inscription appears on the family tombstone of George R. Whitney, whose relation to him is unclear. Willie, Harriet, and George's marker type was a family monument, personal headstone, and a pedestal with an urn or other decorative top. His tombstone was sandstone and was mostly white with lots of dark grey or green due to age. A fizz test was performed and a magnifier was used to examine the grain. It was 70.5 inches high, 11 inches wide, and 11.25 inches thick. The base was 17.5 inches high, 20.5 inches wide, and 21 inches thick. The marker faces West and there is an inscription on the West for George, North for Willie, and East for Harriet. There are three people commemorated with this grave marker. The names are in an arch, except for Willie) and the word "died" is in cursive and italics. The marker is in good condition, but is cracked, spalling, covered with lichen or moss, discolored, and was dirty. The base is chipped, worn, darkened, and mossy. The actual stone is particularly darkened, mossy, and cracked. The inscription for George is mostly legible, Willie's inscription is mostly illegible, and Harriet's inscription has only a trace of the former inscription or is barely there. The names used relief carving, but everything else used incised carving.

sources
"Quarterly Report to Council, April 11, 1863" City of Berea Records "List of Burials and Names, 1856-1871", City of Berea Records "Number of Burial lots and prices," Adams Street Cemetery folder, Berea Historical Society. E. S. Loomis and D. T. Gould, "Inscriptions from the Old Berea Cemetery," 1904, Berea Historical Society "Cuyahoga Cemetery Inscriptions," Vol. I, compiled by the Western Reserve Historical Society, 1934 Baldwin Wallace College History Department, Willie Whitney, 14 November 2007.