Glen Forest Cemetery
Recently someone on the Historical Society board ran across an account in the 1863 Xenia Torchlight microfilms of a remarkable murder in Yellow Springs:
Murder and Attempted Suicide at Yellow Springs
“On Tuesday, a man by the name of Monroe murdered a young woman in the graveyard [Glen Forest Cemetery] at Yellow Springs, and then cut his own throat. We learn that the woman was a sister of his wife, that he had had a child by her, that she was about to be married, and that he killed her to prevent it. When found at noon, the woman was dead, and he was very weak. His wounds were dressed, but it is doubtful whether he will recover. We will have more of the details of this horrible affair by next week.”
This was followed by a lengthy and even more remarkable account in November of 1864 of the trial proceedings at which the defendant was found to be mentally deranged and sentenced to life imprisonment instead of hanging.
The boarding house “The Ark” is thought to have been on the site of the current Dharma Center at Livermore and Whiteman.