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Submitted: 8/3/08 • Approved: 8/4/08 • Last Updated: 8/13/15 • R69051-G69050-S3
This gravestone is in the East Sparta Cemetery, Pike Twp, Stark County, Ohio. This grave is one of 3 Howenstine grave sites: father, Jacob Howenstine; mother, Alice Stanford Howenstine; and their son, Homer Howenstine. A shared "HOWENSTINE" family stone is located a few feet west of this marker.
These are located in the NE section of the cemetery, adjacent to the N-S gravel access road that segments the cemetery.
This picture faces eastward. The marker is engraved:
ALICE
1853-19xx.
Alice's Ohio death certificate (year 1929, record #09348)indicates she died on Jan 2, 1929, and was buried at East Sparta Cemetery.
The GPS coordinates for these graves are 40° 39' 55.5" North, 81° 21' 19.3" West.
Contributed on 8/3/08
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Record #: 69051