Harrison County OHArchives - Two Quaker Cemeteries, Freeport Township, Ohio — Old Facts In a New Light ************************************************ 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 ************************************************ Along with this list, I want to tell you that the website(s) (same title as in the library list) are finished and are working well. Not sure if I told you it is a two-website project. The story is the main site and I created another site where the template is wider and I could make the maps and charts larger for better viewing. There is also a page of footnotes. 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/ I've sent the URLs because I'm not sure how you deal with web sites, unless it is just an announcement. I'm sure you would want to see the material before you do anything with it. Would you go to the blog, and then visit the websites(s) and let me know how the web should be promoted for the benefit of genealogy and history? And incidentally, I have added a page in the main website that lists the libraries below which have the book. The book's graphics are black and white; most of the web is in color. Darlene Small Gilligan ========================================================================= The library list... One can see these listings by Googling the name of the library and the city, and then in the card catalog, look up either the title or the author. TYPE OF FILE: Cemeteries: A Community Study 1804 - 1966, Harrison County, Ohio TITLE: Two Quaker Cemeteries, Freeport Township, Ohio — Old Facts In a New Light LOCATION: See the following table, and then a description of the book. LOCATION COLLECTION CALL NO. Clark Memorial Branch Library http://www.harrison.lib.oh.us/ 102 West Main Street Freeport, OH 43973 USA Reference GEN REF929 GiL Coshocton Public Library www.coshoctonlibrary.org 655 Main St Coshocton, OH 43812-1697 USA Local History Room PC/977.168/GIL Puskarich Public Library 200 East Market St Cadiz, Ohio 43907 USA Reference GEN REF929 Gil Puskarich Public Library Copy 2 Reference GEN REF929 Gil Tuscarawas Main Library 121 Fair Ave Nw New Philadelphia, OH 44663 Adult Reference REF/GEN/929 Great Bend Public Library 1409 Willliams St Great Bend, KS 67530 J Ref GR 929 Gilligan, Darlene Small Two Quaker Cemeteries, Freeport Township, Ohio — Old Facts In a New Light By Darlene Small Gilligan Copyright © 2005 When documenting the burial of her fourth great grandparents, the author intended to create a short paragraph of their burial – in a Quaker cemetery, though they were not Quaker. Instead, she realized her notes would provide a community documentary about the first two Quaker cemeteries in Freeport Township, Harrison County, Ohio. Neither of these cemeteries are now active burial grounds, the first one already having been plowed over. There is no l onger any visible history of this first cemetery. With no known official list of those buried there, we remember them with this documentary. Why do we write of the second Quaker cemetery? Because the research might reveal why a second cemetery with its accompanying Meeting House and school originated only one-half mile away, just a very few short years after, by the same group of people. To find out the reason for this is what caused an extra research period to finish the story properly. This sixty-six page documentary contains forty-five family names beginning in 1804, persons who were landowners of the two sites, community leaders and residents. The author collected a few descendant notes, an old diary entry, and twelve names of those known to be buried in the first Quaker cemetery in the township. What is unique about this story is a village-township-county-state-national event that changed forever the geography of the small community. A comprehensive index will help the reader to get acquainted with the book, and the sources noted in the end notes will help the reader to find more of the old township history. The book contains full-page graphics, many of them maps, to help the readers orient themselves to the township.