
- Title, side A
- Captain Joseph C. McElroy 1831-1907
- Text, side A
- Born at Oak Grove, prospected in the California goldfields in 1849. During the Civil War he raised a militia company at Racine, and was later promoted Captain of Co. K, 18th O.V.I. After the war, he served on the Racine Village council, Sheriff of Meigs County, and was a member of the Ohio General Assembly. He was Secretary-Treasurer of the Ohio Commission for the Chichamauga Battleground National Park, and served 14 years as Postmaster of the U.S. House of Representatives.
- Sponsors
- Myrtle Bridgeman Dunn and Family and The Ohio Historical Society
- Address
- In Greenwood Cemetery, at the end of Greenwood Road
Racine, OH 45013 - Location
- W end of the cemetery