Robert Nesbitt, an immigrant from Convoy, Ireland, named Convoy, Ohio, after his home town and is buried in Sugar Ridge Cemetery, whose care has belonged to the Tully Township Trustees since its foundation; in 2010, local organizations raised funds to restore his tombstone, a representative from Convoy, Ireland, attended the July 4, 2010, rededication ceremony, and the Van Wert County Historical Society assumed care of the grave site. The western terminus of the Lincoln Highway in Ohio marks part of the first intercontinental road in the USA, inspired by Carl Fisher, builder of the Indianapolis Speedway, and strongly supported by Henry Joy of the Packard Car Company and Frank Seiberling of the Goodyear Tire Company. Founded on July 1, 1913, with Joy as president, the Lincoln Highway Association oversaw a $10 million project running from Times Square in New York City to Lincoln Park in San Francisco across 3,389 miles and twelve states; in Ohio the highway stretches from Van Wert to East Liverpool, and in 1928 the Boy Scouts of America placed concrete markers about one per mile bearing a small bust of Lincoln and the words "This Highway Dedicated to Abraham Lincoln."