A marker in memory of six Revolutionary War soldiers, first dedicated by the Cuyahoga Portage Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1923, was re-dedicated at Middlebury Cemetery after being missing for more than 25 years.

The marker memorializes Titus Chapman, Lambert Clement, Isaac Dudley, William Neal, Thomas Sumner and Hosea Wilcox Jr., whose final resting places lie in Middlebury Cemetery. Though her name is not on the plaque, Abigail Mills Wilcox, who married Hosea Wilcox Jr. in 1774 and is buried next to him, was also honored during the re-dedication ceremony for her service as a nurse in the Continental Army.

Middlebury Cemetery, located at 245 Newton Street in the Goodyear Heights neighborhood on Akron’s East Side, was Akron’s original “burying ground,” donated by Titus Chapman in 1808, before Akron was founded.

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Kassi was born and raised in Central Ohio and is a photojournalism graduate of Kent State University. She was a staff member at the Southeast Missourian and the Hartford Courant before working in non-profit communications.

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