LAKE COUNTY OHIO
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File contributed to the Lake County, Ohio Biographies Project by
Deb Breniser
rbcobb@ncweb.com
January 6, 2000
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From 1915 Lake County, Ohio Atlas 

BIRCHLAWN FARM is owned by John L. Stone, Post Office, Perry, Ohio. It contains 
74 acres on the Middle Ridge Road two and one-half miles from Perry Village in 
Lots 72 and 82, Township  11, Range 7. Perry Village is its nearest market. The 
earning capacity of this farm is divided as follows. One and one-half acres of 
grapes, two acres in pears, four acres of apples, five acres of peaches and 
several varieties of berries. Its soil products are onions, potatoes, corn, 
oats, wheat, etc. In addition, there are 12 acres in meadow and seven in timber.
The farm is watered by wells, a Township Ditch and a never-failing spring. 
Building improvements embrace a commodious farm residence, modern and up-to-date
in its appointments, containing 14 rooms, large barn for stock in excellent 
condition, with cement floors and in dimensions 30 x 60, tool house, ice house, 
corn house, and carriage house combined, one garage, one silo and poultry house.
The farms surface is  level, its soil a gravel loam with some black sand. In 
addition to the farms products already mentioned, Mr. Stone has a small herd of 
Holstein cattle. This farm was first owned by Isaac Sawdey; from him to E. C. 
Sawdey, thence to Elsie D. Sawdey, from whom the farm was purchased by the 
present owner in 1906. Mr. Stone married Eva M. Lace, September. 25, 1895 and 
their family consists of four children, three daughters and one son, the latter 
residing in Cleveland.