Slave Buried in Oak Grove Cemetery

Did you know Oak Grove Cemetery merged with Mt. Hope? Henry Johnson was a native of North Carolina. He was held as a slave before the war, and came to Peru about thirty-five years ago. He took employment on the new court house at the time its erection was first commenced and was engaged at the work at the time of taking ill. He had made his home with Mrs. Kate Brown on East Third Street where he had made his home for the past thirty years or more.

Services were conducted at the A.M.E. church by Rev. Jackson and interment took place in Oak Grove cemetery in 1908. He was 68 years old at the time of death. A bush that was planted by his grave is what is keeping the stone standing.