His new grave site is still marked with a monument believed to be the original one. This, is probably the cemetery which was located just west of Narrows Road on South Ridge Road. A discrepancy arises due to the fact that the History of Geauga and Lake Counties says Ezra Beebe was buried on the Lionidas Axtell Farm.

After that cemetery was abandoned, those who were buried on Call Road were moved to the Center Road Cemetery along with their cemetery stones. It is believed, however that those burials located in this “Single Row” were originally buried in a cemetery located on Call Road.

Beebe’s grave is located in what is known as the Single Row of graves near the tool shed. He is given credit also as being the first adult male death in Perry.

The earliest inscription found for the Center Road cemetery is for Ezra Beebe, a veteran of the Revolutionary War, and given credit by some as being the first settler of Perry, who died in January, 1813 at the age of 76. The main Perry Township cemetery is behind the Perry Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) at the southwest corner of the intersection of Center Street and Middle Ridge Road.Ī list of cemetery stone inscriptions the cemetery was done in about 1929.

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