Brock Cemetery
Darke County, Ohio
This small, rural cemetery is located about 16 miles north of Greenville, Ohio, a community strongly associated with the sharpshooting legend Annie Oakley, who grew up in this area. She and her husband Frank Butler are both buried here. This is a lovely cemetery with some outstanding sculpture. During my visit, I nearly froze to death here while taking pictures, making the most of a dramatic sunset sky and a rising moon on a frosty November evening.
To find this out-of-the-way cemetery, take Highway 127 north from Greenville, and then turn right onto Route 98, otherwise known as the Greenville - St. Mary's Road. The cemetery will be on the right within a mile and a half.
Here are the front and back faces of the historical marker installed next to Annie's grave:
Annie and her husband are buried very near each other. Notice that they both passed away in 1926; after Annie's death due to anemia at the age of 66, Frank was so heartbroken that he simply stopped eating and died 18 days later:
There are other impressive monuments and sculptures to be seen here:
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