Mount Tabor

Mount Tabor

HISTORICAL MARKER INFORMATION

MT. TABOR CHURCH
The first Mt. Tabor Church, a log meetinghouse, was erected on
this site in 1816. It stood on land originally selected by Griffith
and Martha Evans for a graveyard at the death of their daughter
circa 1812. Deeds show the Evans family gave two and one half acres
of land “for the purpose of erecting a meetinghouse and establishing
a burying site.” Camp meetings, religious gatherings popular in
frontier Ohio, were held on the hillside west of the meetinghouse.
Simon Kenton was converted at a Mt. Tabor camp meeting in 1819.
The log meetinghouse burned in 1824 and was replaced with a brick
church on the same spot. In 1881, the present brick church was
completed and dedicated.

MT. TABOR CEMETERY
The cemetery at Mt. Tabor basically surrounds the church on three
sides. Although the date of death of Griffith and Martha Evans’s small
daughter varies according to county histories, it indisputably was the
first burial in what was to become Mt. Tabor Cemetery. Veterans of
the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, World War I, and World War II
are interred in the cemetery. Harley Woodard, a local stone carver,
furnished many of the gravestones. The cemetery is renowned for its
three cast zinc monuments. Far more uncommon than the usual stone
monuments, these hollow grave markers, with their distinctive bright
gray color, were produced only briefly during the 1880s and 1890s.

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