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North Lawn Cemetery is on Ohio 13 in Utica, just 100 feet from the Knox County line.
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Captain Hughes was a veteran of Lord Dunsmore’s War, the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the frontier Indian wars.
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Captain Elias Hughes is buried in North Lawn Cemetery in Utica.
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This is the approximate site of where Elias Hughes purportedly shot and killed two Native Americans in 1800 for allegedly stealing horses. This is near this dog kennel on the Overholt farm on Swan Road near Fredericktown.
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Although Hughes’ 1844 stone is deteriorating with time and acid rain, a granite ground stone has been installed to preserve his information for the future.
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