New Web Site: Two Quaker Cemeteries ~ Old Facts In a New Light

Why? would non-Quakers bury their dead in a Quaker cemetery?

Why? would a Quaker group abandon its place of worship and school to build a new meeting house, school and cemetery just a 1/2 mile away only 8 years later than the first one?

Why? would a Quaker cemetery, with its first burial in 1804 not have an organizational date until 1830?

Why? is there not an official list of names for those buried there?

!!!! Answers were found for questions not even asked in this extremely interesting community study.

!!!! The final reference reveals a local-township-county-state-national event that forever altered the physical structure of this community.

It is often surprising to find how your families were related to the people and events of a bygone era, but these days there is ample material for a determined researcher to find the kernels of long-ago family and community history.

This research study written in 2005 with a limited circulation will soon be published on the web. It is an interesting story about two related cemeteries, perhaps related to the history of your own families.

With both of these Quaker cemeteries no longer active, indeed, one of them now covered with a cornfield, a written report like this one will provide the reader with a connection to the history of their forbears and events in which they were involved.

Others with an interest in the community’s history will appreciate the local and county maps, records, sketches and historical references that provided the burial lists, the land deed records, and even an insight of the traveler through Freeport Township who left a diary to describe who he met and what he thought as he passed through town. The analyzed comments with graphics, and photos have been included in this report in order that the reader could see a greater picture than just the printed word. Sources have been documented with Footnotes.

The web publication is composed of two websites - one tells the story, and provides links to another web which holds the maps, charts, and sketches which will give you a larger view of this Ohio community in Harrison County, Ohio. Enjoy this "armchair visit" to southeast Ohio.

http://sites.google.com/site/twoquakercemeteries/