After a three-year search, a descendant has located a roughly 200-year-old Amish cemetery in Holmes County, Ohio, where her fourth-great-grandparents are buried — and it was right where a 1975 directory said it would be.
As reported in the Bargain Hunter, a woman named Linda Schrock Schneider managed to find the burial ground of Holmes County pioneers Jacob and Anna Shrock in a stand of trees in a cow pasture near Walnut Creek. A new granite stone listing names of the 11 people buried there was placed on October 7.
Amish cemeteries are typically modest and maintained on a small piece of land, often sectioned off from a community member’s acreage and enclosed by a fence. Gravestones are typically simple stone markers…