East Lawn Cemetery encompasses about .25 acres and has about 200 burials. The oldest is 1815. The land for the cemetery was donated by Hezekiah Nooney Sr. to bury the first child who died in Mantua Township. Later in 1835 Nooney Sr. also gave land for a church, park and town hall. The last burial in the cemetery was Martha Wilcox in 1940; the cemetery is now considered closed and no more burials are carried out in this cemetery.
This is a small burial ground with several interesting people:
Samuel Moore, a native of Connecticut, died in 1816 at age fifty-three. He has a Revolutionary War marker by his stone and a footstone with his initials: SM.
Pearla Moore who died on July 1843 at the age of thirty-seven. Pearla provided the pillow that was used in tarring and feathering Mormon leader Joseph Smith in Hiram on March25,1832. The ringleader of the event was Symmonds Ryder, a convert to Mormonism who later had a major disagreement with Joseph Smith.
The Mantua Historical Society is now on the property with the church and the cemetery, along with a twelve seat out house.
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I've never heard of the name Pearla.
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