We reveal the history of the community through the stories of its dead
individual record

id
first
middle
last
dob
dod
cod
156ThomasLibertyPrentice5/2/18461/8/1852

veteran
exhumed
purchaser
cemetery
FALSEAdams Street

lot
plot
R8 G8
relations
Rev. Liberty (father) A. Prentice (mother)

comments
A tombstone inscription lists age at death as 5 years, 8 months and 6 days. Date of birth, as calculated by Don Labaj, is recorded as 8 May 1846. A transcription of a headstone is recorded in 1904 but not in 1934. "Prentice, Thos, Liberty, Son of Rev. Liberty and A. Prentice, Jan 8, 1852, age 5 yrs, 8 mo. 6 da." Liberty Prentice purchased from the Berea Seminary for $40 land “known as inlot No 106 one hundred & six on the town plat of Berea Seminary” in 11 February 1853 (Liberty Prentice deed, 11 June 1853). Liberty Prentice purchased from John and Mary Baldwin for $2,000 “lot of land situated in the township of Middleburgh being number Six in the fourteenth range of townships in the Connecticut Western Reserve in the State of Ohio and which is also in the County of Cuyahoga and is known by being fifty acres of Land in lots No 2 and 3 in Section 2 and in lots one and four in section twenty four in the township of Middleburgh there being 11 acres in the South West corner of Lot No 2 In section 23 and 24 12/100 in the South east corner of Lot No 3 in Section 23 and four acres in the North East corner of No 3 in Section 23 and four acres in the North East corner of Lot No 4 in the section 24 and 9 and a half acres in the North West corner of lot No 1 in section 24 and bounded as follows commencing at a point in the South line of lot No 2 in section No 23 which point is in the road and 18 chaines and 46 links East thence North 54/2 West 20 chains and 93 links thence …..” in 3 August 1857 (Liberty Prentice deed, 24 Sept 1858).

sources
E.S. Loomis and D.T. Gould, “Inscriptions from the Old Berea Cemetery,” 1904, Berea Historical Society Don Labaj, Berea Families CD, 2006 Liberty Prentice deed, 11 June 1853 Cuyahoga County Recorder's Office online Liberty Prentice deed, 24 Sept 1858 Cuyahoga County Recorder's Office online Thomas Liberty Prentice tombstone photograph, Indira Gesink, 2007.