Harrison County OHArchives - Description of Old Quaker Cemetery at Greenmont Union Site ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Darlene Small Gilligan on October 9, 2009 This is my blog that describes the site(s): http://twoquakercemeteries.blogspot.com/ This is the URL for the main site. http://sites.google.com/site/twoquakercemeteries/ ************************************************ Description of Old Quaker Cemetery at Greenmont Union Site These next two descriptions are completely separate from the Sears farm, with this Quaker cemetery sharing space within the Greenmont Union Cemetery grounds which is very close to the David Sears property. The Quaker cemetery, now within Greenmont Union Cemetery, is known as the site of the second Quaker meeting house in Freeport Township. Both descriptions are for the same cemetery, just labeled differently. The first description designates the second Quaker cemetery before Greenmont Union Cemetery came into existence. QUAKER: SW Qtr.,S7,T12,R7, Freeport Twp., 1818, now a part of Greenmont Union Cemetery. On Ohio 800 at the northeast edge of Freeport. GREENMONT: SW Qtr., S7,T12,R7, Freeport Twp., 1818, includes Quaker Cemetery. On Ohio 800 at the northeast edge of Freeport. Another way to describe Greenmont Union Cemetery was by Charles Hanna in his “Historical Collections of Harrison County, Ohio.” It reads like this: “Established about 1818. 10.06 acres, Vol. 90, page 453; Vol. 69, page 636, Vol. 62, page 392. On SR (state road) 800 at NE edge of Freeport. SW Qtr S7 T12 R7 and NW Qtr S12 T11 R7. Established about 1818 as a Quaker Cemetery. Remnants of Quaker Cemetery are back of modern cemetery.” This quote was taken from an old, typewritten document which had no title or date, which was a copy secured from the county recorder’s office at Cadiz, Ohio. It was partially published in “Historical Collections of Harrison County, Ohio” by Hanna, and appeared to have been a document preceding the updated “Ohio Cemeteries” editions. Greenmont Union Cemetery Two Sources for Quaker Cemetery Plots There are two sources available for the Quaker burials in the Freeport, Ohio Greenmont Union Cemetery. No publication date is written in my copy of this publication, but the latest burial recorded in her publication for this section is 1966. Both record sources can be examined (including the names) in Alice Hayhurst Morton’s “Freeport Township Cemeteries, Harrison County, Ohio.” Source 1 marks the year of each burial as recorded in the Flushing Monthly Meeting Records for Freeport, Ohio and were located in the Greenmont Quaker Section 2. (a) Two early burials were Isaac and Elizabeth Cadwallader, who no doubt owned the property and lived there. (b) All the rest were buried in 1820 or later, which matches the second meeting house built in 1817. One document states they were using the new meeting house in 1819. Quaker minutes state it was first used in 1820. The sale of the 2.5 acres was dated Dec 21, 1820. As often happens, use of a building is not unusual before final papers are drawn. Source 2 marks the year of each burial in the Greenmont Union Cemetery, Section 2 called “Old Quaker Cemetery.” This list was compiled by Mrs. Morton. She told me her project had taken her to the cemetery to record all the markers that could be read. Again, we see two very early burials which undoubtedly occurred while still the original private property: (1) Unnamed [Clark?], died May 1, 1805, age 19 years, 6 months, 8 days; (2) Sarah Green, daughter of Samuel and Ann Green, age 6 years, died 1811. On the old 1875 plat map, we see the owners of property in this area are Mr. Clark and Mr. Green, which matches the names of those two burials. It is appropriate that these two burials happened to be included in the December 21, 1820 land sale. The remainder on this list starts in 1838. Mrs. Morton, in her cemetery publication made a note for the burials in Source 2 that “many of the graves had no stones and the older ones are hard to read.” We don’t know why there were grave stones in a Quaker cemetery, but in the mid 1800s and later, the changes occurring in our social history would include changes, also, in the manner of burials for this society. It has also been suggested that as people were leaving the Society for more ‘personal freedom’ they began to erect memorial stones for earlier ancestors.