IDFirstMiddleLastDOBDODCOD
157ElizaS.Proctor (Kneeland)2/18/18368/17/1852N/A

veteran
exhumed
purchaser
cemetery
N/AFALSEN/AAdams Street

lot
plot
N/AR5 G5
relations
Caleb Proctor (father) Myra S. Proctor (mother) Isaac Kneeland (consort/husband) Myra (sister b. 23 October 1845 d. 31 August 1849) Sumiah (sister b. c1838) Abby L. (b. c1840)

comments
A transcription of a stone for her was recorded in 1904 and 1934. “Mrs. Eliza. S. eld. dau of Caleb and Myra S. Proctor, and consort of Isaac Kneeland, b. Middlesborough, Mass. Feb 18, 1836, d. Aug 17, 1852. She was enumerated in the 1850 federal census in Middleburgh Township, with her family. Father Caleb was 56 years old, a Lanctton[?], with $1,000 in real estate, born in Mass. Sister Myra was 4 years old, born in Mass. Eliza was 14 years old, born in Mass, attending school. Sister Sumiah was 12, born in Mass, attending school. Sister Abby L was 10 years old, born in Mass, attending school. Dr. I. Kneeland was 24 years old, a Physician, with 240 real estate, born in New York. Caleb Proctor purchased from the Trustees of Berea Seminary for $200 land “situated in the Township of Middleburg being Number Six, 6, in the fourteenth Range of Townships, in the Connectiut Western Reserve, in the State of Ohio, and which is also in the County of Cuyahoga and is Known as “In Lotz, No. 81 _ No 82 _ and No 37 _ No 38 _ in the Village of Berea” on 17 October 1853 (Caleb Proctor deed, 15 November 1853). Caleb and Myra Proctor sold to John Aldrich for $2,400 the land “situated in the Township of Middleburgh being Number (6) Six, in the fourteenth (14) Range of Townships in the Connectictut Western Reserve, in the State of Ohio, and which is also in the County of Cuyhoga, and is known as “in lots” No 1 & 2, One and Two in the Village of Berea with the Buidlings and appurtenances thereto belonging . Reserving to the Trustees of Berea Seminary the express rights to prohibit intoxicationg drinks..” in 10 November 1853. (Caleb Proctor deed 19 November 1853). Thomas Quayle sold to Caleb Proctor for $50 land “situated in Middleburgh township being No. Six in the 14th range of township in the state of Ohio which is also in the County of Cuyahoga and is known on the town plat of the Berea Seminary as inlots number 46 & 47 forty six an dforty seven” in July 1856 (Caleb Proctor deed 3 December 1856). Caleb Proctor and Myra S. Proctor sold to Ezra Thomas for $350 “land situated in the township of Middleburgh in the State of Ohio and which is also in the County of Cuyahoga and is known on the plat of the Berea Seminary in the incorporated Village fo Berea as inlots nos 38 and 46 and 47” in 12 March 1859. (Caleb Proctor deed 5 April 1859). Caleb Proctor purchased from Ezra Thomas for $1 dollar, “sub lots No. thirty-eight (38) forty-six (46) and forty seven (47) on the Plat of the Berea Seminary in said Village of Berea being the same land conveyed by Caleb Proctor wife per G.M. Barber their Atty to said Exra Thomas March 12th 1859 by deed records in Volume 99, page 498, Cuyahoga Co Records” in 4 June, 1875 (Caleb Proctor deed 19 June 1875). Her consort, Isaac Kneeland, purchased lot #12. The stone is white marble, worn but still partly legible in 2007.

sources
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 1850 US Federal Census,Middleburg Township, Caleb Proctor household,Census Series: M432 Roll: 673 Page: 180 (HeritageQuest.com) Caleb Proctor deed, 15 November 1853 Cuyahoga County Recorder's Office online Caleb and Myra Proctor deed, 19 November 1853 Cuyahoga County Recorder's Office online Caleb Proctor deed, 3 December 1856 Cuyahoga County Recorder's Office online Caleb and Myra Proctor deed, 5 April 1859 Cuyahoga County Recorder's Office online Caleb Proctor deed, 19 June 1875 Cuyahoga County Recorder's Office online “Numbers of burial lots and price,” Adams Street Cemetery folder, Berea Historical Society Eliza S. Proctor/Kneeland tombstone photograph, Jeremy Feador, April 2008.