Fulton Farm Cemetery
The Fulton Farm Cemetery was first used in the late 1850s for members of the Fulton family and is located along State Route 31 south of Somersville, Ohio, at 26270 State Route 31, Raymond, Ohio. The cemetery is located approximately 500 feet east of State Route 31 and one mile north of Harmon-Patrick Road in York Township, Union County, Ohio. The cemetery was originally located on a 107 acre farm belonging to David Fulton and then his son William T. Fulton. The cemetery went into disuse in the early twentieth century.
The cemetery was mapped as part of the National Grave Registration Project, which was part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1938. The cemetery was lost in subsequent years and was not documented as part of the Union County Genealogical Society's Grave Registration Project in the early 1980s. The cemetery was rediscovered in October 2023 when real estate agent Lynn West contacted the Union County Historical Society for information regarding the house and cemetery on the farm. The Union County Records Manager & Archivist Stephen Badenhop, Union County Historical Society President Robert W. Parrott and Union County Historical Society Trustee Nina Boerger photographed and documented the cemetery on October 13, 2023.
Fulton Family
David Fulton House - Constructed c1854
David Fulton had three children, William, Sarah, and Jane Fulton. Sarah Fulton married David Davis on October 9, 1845, in Union County. Jane born April 9, 1828, in Cecil County, Maryland and died on April 16, 1910, in Claibourne Township, Union County, Ohio, married Joseph C. Hull on April 19, 1851, in Union County. Joseph C. Hull was born October 20, 1824, in Pennsylvania and died January 1, 1910, in Claibourne Township. They were both buried at the Claibourne Cemetery. David Fulton died December 31, 1859, in York Township from dropsy, while his wife died on May 6, 1872, in York Township.
William T. Fulton, born October 22, 1818, in Cecil County, Maryland migrated with his parents and siblings to Union County in 1836. He married Harriet A. "Hattie" Neil on January 4, 1859, in Union County. Hattie Neil Fulton was born February 14, 1835, in Guernsey County, Ohio, and was the daughter of Solomon and Ann H. Neil of Marysville, Ohio. William Fulton had five children, Ulysses G., Mary N., William, Jennie H., and Joseph H. Fulton. Harriet "Hattie" Fulton died June 16, 1886, and her husband William T. Fulton died August 28, 1899, at the family farm in York Township.
Fulton Farm Cemetery Map
Fulton Family Farm Cemetery Map - c1938
The National Grave Registration Project recorded six tombstones when they mapped the cemetery in 1938. The October 2023 examination of the cemetery also located six gravestones, which included ten burials. This list documents the tombstones as they relate to the 1938 map starting with row 1 on the western side of the cemetery - left side of the map - and lists the grave markers from north to south - top to bottom on the map. The row numbers and marker numbers correspond to those on the map. There were not burials in the unmarked spaces on the map. They were used as points of reference between grave markers.
| Row 1 (Western Row) | Marker 3 | Flora Hull |
| Marker 1 | Charles W. Hull | |
| Row 3 (Center Row) | Marker 9 | David Fulton |
| Marker 1 | William T. Fulton, Hattie Fulton & Ulysses G. Fulton | |
| Row 3 (Eastern Row) | Marker 3 | Catharine Potts, Infant Son Potts & Infant Daughter Potts |
| Marker 1 | Ann Fulton |
Cemetery Gravestones
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CHARLES W. Infant Son of Joseph & Jane Hull Died Feb. 6, 1871 Aged 11 Mns. 23 ds. |
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Charles W. Hull, born February 14, 1870, in Taylor Township and died February 6, 1871, in Taylor Township. He was the son of Joseph C. Hull and Jane Fulton Hull. He was the grandson of David and Ann Hull Fulton. He was the second burial at the Fulton Farm Cemetery. |
(Row 1 - Marker 3)
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FLORA V. Dau. of W.T. & S.M. HULL Died Oct. 6, 1884 Aged 1Y 4M 14D |
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Flora V. Hull, born May 22, 1883, in Taylor Township, and died October 5, 1884, in Taylor Township. Flora died from cholera infantum. She was the daughter of William T. Hull and Stella May Gantt Hull. She was the granddaughter of Joseph C. Hull and Jane Fulton Hull and the great-granddaughter of David and Ann Hull Fulton. She was the seventh burial at the Fulton Farm Cemetery. |
(Row 2 - Marker 1)
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ULYSSES G. FULTON Died June 9, 1886 Aged 23Y 1M 1D |
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Ulysses Grant Fulton, born May 8, 1863, in York Township and died June 9, 1883, in York Township. Ulysses died from tuberculosis. He was the son of William T. Fulton and Harriet Neil Fulton. He was the grandson of David and Ann Hull Fulton. He was the eight burial at the Fulton Farm Cemetery. |
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HATTIE A. WIFE OF W.T. FULTON Died June 16, 1886 Aged 51Y 4M 2D |
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Harriet A. "Hattie" Neil Fulton, born February 14, 1835, in Guernsey County, Ohio, and died June 16, 1883, in York Township. Hattie died from tuberculosis. She was the wife of William T. Fulton. She was the daughter-in-law of David and Ann Hull Fulton. She was the ninth burial at the Fulton Farm Cemetery. |
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| FULTON (Base of the Hattie A. Fulton Gravestone Monument) |
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| They were lovely and pleasant in their lives and in their death they were not divided - 2nd Samuel 1:23 (Base of the Hattie A. Fulton Gravestone Monument) |
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WM. T. Fulton Died Aug. 28, 1899 Aged 80Y 10M 6D |
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William Thomas Fulton, born October 22, 1818, in Cecil County, Maryland and died August 28, 1899, in York Township. William died from paralysis. He was the oldest child and only son of David and Ann Hull Fulton. He served as County Commissioner of Union County from October 15, 1850, to February 5, 1857. He was the tenth and last burial at the Fulton Farm Cemetery. |
(Row 2 - Marker 9)
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DAVID FULTON Died Dec. 31, 1859 Aged 77 YRS 10 MO. 23D'S |
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David Fulton, born February 8, 1782, in Maryland and died December 31, 1859, in York Township. David died from dropsy. He was the patriarch of the Fulton family in York Township, Union County. He was the first burial at the Fulton Farm Cemetery. |
(Row 3 - Marker 1)
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ANN M. FULTON Died May 5, 1872 Aged 79 Ys. 9Ms. |
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Ann M. Hull Fulton, born August 5, 1792, in Ireland and died May 5, 1872, in York Township. She was the matriarch of the Fulton family in York Township, Union County. She was the fifth burial at the Fulton Farm Cemetery. |
(Row 3 - Marker 3)
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INFANT SON OF G.W. & C. POTTS DIED In the year 1865 -------------------------- INFANT DAU. OF G.W. & C. POTTS DIED IN THE YEAR 1871 |
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The infant son and daughter of George W. Potts and Catharine J. Potts were born in York Township and died in the years 1865 and 1871 respectively in York Township. They were the third and fourth burials at the Fulton Farm Cemetery. Their father George W. Potts was born March 25, 1836, in Ross County Ohio, and was the son of James and Ruth Potts. He married Catharine J. Potts on December 16, 1857, in Ross County, Ohio. He was a neighbor of the Fulton family. He died on July 7, 1915, in York Township. |
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They are going down the valley (Base of the Infant Son & Daughter Potts Gravestone Monument) |
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CATHARINE J. WIFE OF G.W. POTTS Died Apr. 18, 1876 Aged 39Y 9M 15D |
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Catharine J. Potts, born July 3, 1836, in Ross County, Ohio, and died April 18, 1876, in York Township. She was the first wife of George W. Potts, and neighbor to the William T. Fulton family. She was the sixth burial at the Fulton Farm Cemetery. |
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One side with carved Blank Oval -------------------------- One Side Blank Plain |
Unmarked Graves
William T. Fulton and Harriet Neil Fulton had two other children that died at a young age. Jennie H. Fulton, born in December 1859, and Joseph H. Fulton. Both children were dead before 1880 and probably had been deceased long before that date. The Fulton Farm Cemetery started in December 1859 with the death of David Fulton, and it is most likely that both Jennie and Joseph were buried in the Fulton Farm Cemetery, however a grave marker for either of them was not located in October 2023, and based off the grave makers located during the 1938 mapping of the Fulton Farm Cemetery they were not located then either. All of the graves located in 1938 were located in 2023.
Grave Marker Bases
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| Flora V. Hull Grave Marker Base (1883-1884) Row 1 - Marker 3 |
David Fulton Grave Marker Base (1782-1859) Row 2 - Marker 9 |
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| Ann M. Fulton Grave Marker Base (1792-1872) Row 3 - Marker 1 |
Catharine J. Potts Grave Marker Base (1836-1876) Row 3 - Marker 3 |
Obituaries
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Catharine Jane Potts
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Ulysses Grant Fulton
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Harriet A. "Hattie" Fulton
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Harriet A. "Hattie" Fulton
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William T. Fulton
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William T. Fulton
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