ID	First	Middle	Last	DOB	DOD	COD
11	Susan	N/A	Briden	N/A	3/28/1843	N/A

veteran	exhumed	purchaser	cemetery
N/A	FALSE	N/A	Adams Street

lot	plot
N/A	R14 G 1 possibly out of place? She is not really *in* lot 99 but to south of it. There is an unmarked burial slightly to south of her, R14 Ga; her stone is possibly displaced from that spot. WRHS:"stone broken" but still in general area of cemetery as 1934

relations

William Briden (husband)

comments

This is one of the earliest burials in the cemetery, lying outside the lot grid established later. Berea's record of burials does not start until 1856, so the only information we have is from transcriptions of the tombstone. The 1904 survey of the cemetery reported her inscription as "Suzan Briden, wife of Wm. Briden. D. March 28, 1843. ae. 20 yrs." In 2007, the sandstone tablet marker was found broken in half, with iron stakes protruding from the remaining half. Evidence of a cement repair at the break exists; the remaining inscription is deep; the stone is dirty, with superficial cracks, and moss. The remaining inscription says "…who died March 28, 1843. AE. 20 yrs. -- Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord." The 1934 transcription records only the top of the broken tablet: "Susan, wife of William Briden." There is no obvious lot purchaser, hence no identifiable lot number. A ground penetrating radar scan located one unmarked burial slightly to SE of stone, probably hers. No census records are available.

sources

E. S. Loomis and D. T. Gould, "Inscriptions from the Old Berea Cemetery," 1904, Adams Street Cemetery folder, Berea Historical Society "Cuyahoga Cemetery Inscriptions," volume VI, compiled by the Western Reserve Historical Society, 1934; Adams Street Cemetery folder, Berea Historical Society "Number of burial lots and price," Adams Street Cemetery folder, Berea Historical Society. Ground penetrating radar scan of cemetery, Geosearches, Inc., 27 July 2006. Susan Briden tombstone photograph, Jeremy Feador, 2006.