Cemeteries: Zion aka Robeson Monthly Meeting 1741-1872 Berks County, Pa Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Diana Quinones. audianaq@msn.com USGENWEB NOTICE: Printing this file by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. ___________________________________________________________ One of my own ancestor's brother (from N Coventry in Chester Co) was a member of Zion MM in Robeson area in 1860s. After querying a few resources, it was learned that an alternative name was Robeson MM and was in existence in early 1740's to early 1870's. List below are a number of people buried at what was then named Robeson Friends MM. This MM was located on the north side of the intersection of Zion and Plow roads in Robeson Twp, was the third MM in Berks County, after Exeter and Maidencreek MMs. The history shows that in 1740 approval was given for a site of the MM 'for the convenience of Friends living in the Hay and Allegheny creek valleys'. In 8/30/1740, John SCARLET, Moses EMBREE, Eleanor SCARLET and Mary CADWALLADER were appointed first overseers of the Robeson Meeting, aka Forest Meeting. In an article about the Society of Friends and their meeting houses in Berks Co, John E Eshelman wrote of the first known Friends in the area: Moses Embree, John Scarlet, Owen Humphrey, Evan Thomas, Richard Moore, David Cadwallader, David Jenkins, Robert Long, John Wells, and Peter March. They worshipped with the Oley group, but on 5/31/1740, they petitioned the MM at Oley for a separate meeting 'due to difficulty in crossing the Schuylkill in time of freshet'. On 6/28, permission was granted and a Preparative Meeting was created a year later. In 6/27/1741 the 'Friends of Robeson Meeting' were granted their first Preparative Meeting, and in the Fall of 1741, on rented land, a log meeting house was erected. The first wedding at this Robeson MM united Samuel EMBREE of Robeson and Rachel LEWIS of Cumru in 2/6/1743. In 7/24/1785, Thomas Lightfoot and his wife Rachel deeded 18 acres to David Jackson and Edward Bonsall, Friends in the township Robeson. John Scarlet Sr and William Scarlet were appointed additional trustees. The cemetery was laid out then with an encircling stone wall. Robeson MM originally belonged to Philadelphia Quarterly and Yearly Meetings, but was made a branch of Caln Quarterly Meeting in Chester Co in 1800. When the MM was discontinued in 1872, remaining members transferred to Caln Preparative and Bradford MM Chester Co. In 1826 membership was near one hundred. Ministers included Peter Thomas, Judah Thomas. Rebecca N Scarlet, Hannah Morris and Mary Jackson. There are 216 burials at Robeson Monthly Meeting cemetery. And while there are Scarlets buried there, some of the earliest 'Friends' of Robeson are buried on the Scarlet property at Scarlet's Mill, in the orchard of what was later known as the McLenegan farm. Here is a list of people buried at Robeson MM Cemetery: (Not 216, but what can be accounted for): Jonathan Jackson, death, 1785 Owen Humphrey, age 78, death 1790 Jane Norris, death 1790 Sarah Humphrey, age 82, death 1795 (wife of Owen Humphrey) Thomas Thomas, death 1795 (will probated 1/10/1795) William Morris, death 1792 Edward B Jackson, death 1796 Nancy R Jackson, death 1796 Mary Williams, death 1799 Jane Jackson, death 1799, child of Thomas Jackson William Scarlet death 1799 Susannah Scarlet, age 55, death 1801 Nicholas Morris, age 58, death 1807,, son of David and Jane Morris Rachel Dickinson, death 1811 Rachel Jackson, death 1812, child of Thomas Jackson David Jackson, age 74, death 1813, son of Ephraim and Mary Jackson Benjamin Scarlet, death 1815, son of John and Elizabeth Scarlet Hannah Morris, age 66, death 1815, dau of Ephraim and Mary Jackson Jane Williams death 1813 William Scarlet age 75, death 1818, son of John and Elizabeth Scarlet Sarah Scarlet, age 47, death 1848, wife of James Scarlet Maria Lincoln, age 46, death 1848, wife of Samuel Lincoln Benjamin Scarlet, age 68, death 1848, son of Wm and Susanna Scarlet John J Scarlet, age 75, death 1850, son of Wm and Susanna Scarlet Ephraim Scarlet, Sr, age 80, death 1850 William Scarlet, age 46, death 1850, son of Ephraim Sr and Lydia William Dickinson, death 1858, son of Nathaniel and Rachel Wm. Penn Scarlet, age 6, death 1859 Mary D Scarlet, age 6, death 1859 William J Scarlet, age 78, death 1867, son of William and Susanna Mary D Scarlet, age 26, death 1869 Mary Evans, age 86, death 1872, dau of Enos and Lydia Morris Susanna Scarlet, death 1872, dau of Wm and Susanna Scarlet These are from gravestones: Tillie Morris 1845 John W Pierce, 1844, s of Wm. Pierce Jas. G. Dickinson age 5, death 1849, son of Nelson and Mary Ann Justina Scarlet, age 39, death 1850, maiden name Warren Justina Scarlet, 1850, inf dau of wm and Justina Allen Lewis, age 64 Mary Lewis, 73, wife of Allen Lewis died ? Rachel Lewis, age 66, dau of Allen and Mary Catharine Lewis, age 65, dau of Allen and Mary James Lewis, age 40, son of Allen and Mary Henry W Scarlet, age 19, 1854, son of Wm and Justina Lydia Scarlet, age 21, 1858, dau of Wm and Justina Catharine, age 16, 1858, dau of Wm and Justina Lewis Fawkes, death 1856 Wm C Lewis, age 7, died 1852, son of Josiah and Elizabeth Drusilla Scarlet, age 4, 1860, dau of Samuel J and Mary A Hannah A Scarlet, 6, 1860, dau of Samuel J and Mary A Samuel D Scarlet, age 1, 1863, son of Samuel J and Mary A Susanna Scarlet, 1861, dau of Samuel J and Mary A David Morris, age 67, death 1850, son of Enos and Lydia Morris Harriet Morris, age 33, death 1863, wife of Enos Morris Enos F Morris, death 1863, son of Enos and Harriet Morris Elizabeth Scarlet Lewis, age 48, deatrh 1863, wife of Josiah Lewis Rachel Ann Fawkes, age 27, death 1864, dau of Lewis and Phoebe Ann Fawkes David T Morris, age 14, death 1867, s of Enos and Harriet Morris Hannah Morris, death 1867, wife of David Morris, maiden name Cooper Rachel Dickinson, age 78, death 1868, wife of Wm Dickinson, maiden name James Lucy Morris, death 1868, dau of John and Lydia Morris William H Morris, age 76, death 1874, son of Wm and Mary Morris John Morris, age 76, death 1874, son of Enos and Lydia Carrie E Morris, death 1877, dau of Wm and Mary Morris Moses Hartz, age 20, son of Elias and Lydia D Hartz Mary D Fawkes, no data, dau of Lesis and Phoebe Ann Fawkes Samuel J Scarlet, age 53, died 1878 Mary A Morris, age 46, death 1881, wife of William Morris Henry Lewis, age 65, death 1883 Sarah Jane Morris, age 74, death 1883, dau of David and Hannah Morris Lydia Morris, age 74, death 1884, wife of John Morris James Scarlet, age 81, 1884, son of Ephraim and Lydia Morris Matilda Scarlet age 65, death 1886, wife of James Scarlet, nee Kurtz Josiah Lewis, age 83, 1887 Kersey Riter, age 84, 1887 Elizabeth Riter, age 79, 1889, wife of Kersey Riter, nee Liggett Lydia D Hertz, age 69, 1888 wife of Elias Hertz, dau of William and Rachel Dickinson Phoebe Ann Fawkes, death 1878, dau pf Wm and Rachel Dickinson infant son of Joseph and Mary Lewis, 1888 Ada M Kane age 21, d 1898 Ada E Kane, infant, 1898, dau of Ada and John Kane Sarah Dickinson age 74, death 1898 dau of Wm and Rachel Dickinson Elias Hartz, age 92, 1907, (last burial in the cemetery) Sarah D Scarlet, 82, 1932 dau of Lewis and Phoebe Fawkes (burial after Eshelman made his list) Eshelman had knowledge of the following burials - no grave markers and few dates: Eli Dickinson son of Nathanial and Rachel Dickinson Lydia Stevens Dickinson, wife of Eli Dickinson Levi Miller Susanna Miller, d 1854, age 40; dau of Ephraim and Lydia Scarlet Elizabeth Miller, dau of Levi and Susanna Miller Ephraim Scarlet Jr, son of Ephraim and Lydia (Dickinson) Scarlet. one of last surviving members of Robeson MM was buried at Exeter Meeting burial ground, also his wife Sarah Lee Scarlet.