QUAKER CEMETERY, WASHINGTON, NEW YORK Copyright (c) 2000 by Marilyn Robinson & Wendy Baker-Lake (ewbakerlake@earthlink.net). ************************************************************************ USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submittor has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ************************************************************************ QUAKER CEMETERY Meeting House Road, White Creek, New York (Recorded 07-23-2000 by Marilyn Robinson and Wendy Baker-Lake) Quaker Cemetery, located at the intersection of Meeting House Rd. & Quaker Hill Rd, has two distinct parts. The original part, the Quaker burial grounds; the other members of the community. Surname/ First&/or Maiden/ Birthdate/ Deathdate/ Age/ Additional Inscription in quotes or Notes Allen, Eleanor Ann/ d Feb 3, 1855/ In 28th Yr/ "daughter of John and Mary Allen" Allen, Jacob Quincy/ b Nov 14th,1814/ d Nov 4th,1891/ Ae 77th Yr/ Husb of Mary E. Wheeler Allen, John/ d Feb 3rd, 1855/ In 81st Yr/ Husb of Mary Allen, Mary/ d Dec 18th, 1848/ In 65th Yr/ "2nd Wife of John Allen" Allen, Mary M. Wheeler/ d Sept, 17th, 1854/ 31y,3m,25d/ "Wife of Jacob Q. Allen" Baby/ Nothing else on headstone Bristol, Jane M./ d Aug 20, 1862/ 33 Yrs/ "Wife of Levi Bristol and daughter of the late William Richards" Bristol, William R./ d Aug 14, 1863/ "in his 18th year"/ "son of Levi Bristol" Hoag, Lucy Ellis/ d Aug 21st, 1883/ 88y,10m,25d/ "wife of Stephen Hoag" Hoag, Stephen/ d July 8th, 1879/ 94y,7m,14d/ Husb of Lucy Ellis Richards, Anna P./ b Mar 16th, 1798/ d Oct 22nd,1885/ 88th Yr/ Wife of J.W. Richards Richards, George/ b Sept 23rd, 1802/ d Feb 18th, 1891/ Husb of Minerva Hurd Richards, George E./ b June 12th, 1851/ d Sept 14th, 1874/ "their son" Son of George and Minerva Richards, J.W., MD/ b Nov 4th, 1800/ d Sept 3rd, 1886/ 85th Yr/ Husb of Anna P. Richards Richards, Minerva Hurd/ b July 17th, 1812/ d Dec 26th 1897/ "His Wife" Wife of George Richards Richards, Sarah/ d Feb 10, 1864/ In her 87th Yr/ "wife of Dr. William Richards" Richards, William/ d April 17, 1843/ Age 77 Yrs/ "born Watertown, Ct" Husband of Sarah Smith, John C./ d Dec 16, 1855/ In the 34th year of his age/ "son of Joseph and Rebecca Smith" Smith, Joseph/ d May 10, 1860/ 83y,3m,8d/ Husb of Rebecca Smith Smith, Nancy C./ d Sept 27th, 1866/ Ae 49 yrs/ "dau of Joseph and Rebecca Smith" Smith, Rebecca/ d Feb 14, 1854/ Age 73/ "wife of Joseph Smith" Surdam, Deborah M./ d Aug 26, 1853/ 1y, 4m, 22d/ "daughter of Killian and Hannah Surdam" Taber, Emma M. Winslow/ d Dec 21st, 1879/ Ae 24 yrs/ "His Wife" 2nd Wife of Hugh Taber Taber, Hugh/ d Jan 1st, 1885/ Ae 46 yrs/ Husb of Mary H. Briggs Taber (1) & Emma M. Winslow Taber(2) Taber, Jonathan/ d May 10, 1863/ 83y,3m,23d Taber, Mary H. Briggs/ d Aug 12th, 1875/ In 32nd yr/ "His Wife" 1st Wife of Hugh Taber Taber, Sarah/ b 1803/ d 1886/ Wife of Stephen Taber Taber, Stephen/ b 1802/ d 1881/ Husb of Sarah Taber Taber, William/ d Oct 24, 1863/ In his 24th year/ "son of Stephen and Sarah Taber" Taber, William H./ d May 16, 1875/ Age 76 years Willie/ d July 25th, 1878/ Ae 5th yr/ Stone located with Taber stones, no last name on stone According to "Our Yesteryears - A Narrative History of the Town of White Creek, Washington County, NY, 1959," written by Paul Jones, the history of the Friends' Meeting House is as follows: "By 1770 there were enough settlers in White Creek of the Quaker persuasion to warrant the formation of a Friends' Meeting known as the White Creek preparative Meeting. These early meetings were at Isaac Wood's home with his brother John as meeting clerk. In 1784-5 the meeting house was completed on land leased to the Friends by Edward Aiken at the foot of Quaker Hill. The rent was to be one peppercorn per year. By 1804 the meeting-house proved to be too small, so rapidly had the Quaker community increased in numbers. In that year, the structure was remodeled or rebuilt but still with those simple lines in accordance with custom. It was a two story building twenty five by twenty eight feet and stood on the site of the earlier meeting house. Its cost to the Quakers was about a thousand dollars. In 1875 the building was burned, was not rebuilt, and the Quakers were amalgamated with Methodists and other White Creek churches." The Quaker Cemetery surrounded the meeting house, but no stones or grave markers were used to mark the burials. After the meeting house burned, members of the community were buried where the building once was, this time with stones. The Quaker part of the cemetery is not being mowed; the rest being mowed by the town. Some stones have fallen over, some appear to be gone, and many are starting to wear badly. The stone of Jane M. Bristol is illegible beneath her name, but information on her gravestone had been copied from DAR cemetery records to obtain a full record. There is a NY State Historical marker that reads: "Site of Friends Meeting house erected by Society of Friends of White Creek. Preparative meeting in 1783. Finished in 1785. Larger one built in 1804."